Environmental Education

Olivia Walton was selected by The North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) for its fifth class of 30 leaders under the age of 30. She will join a growing class of young leaders using environmental education to build sustainable and equitable communities around the world.

Nigel Golden presented the 2020 Ambrose Jearld Jr. Lecture on Diversity and Inclusion in July. His remarks focused on the importance of addressing the cultural and structural barriers to full participation by marginalized communities in STEM. Golden provided a framework for addressing the systemic issues that may explain and/or address those barriers.

Fellow Alicia Daniel, Executive Director of the Vermont Master Naturalist Program, leads viewers on a spring hike to learn the characteristics of 10 common Northeast trees in this video.

Editor's note: The following piece first appeared on the Waterfront Alliance's website.

Zully Juarez and team have published an article in IJERPH about the program they implemented that incorporated air monitoring and storytelling with youth in environmental justice organizations around the Los Angeles area.

In our polarized world, it is easy for conversations to get stuck. How can we find new pathways forward on the big issues of our time, whether at the holiday dinner table, in our organizations, or on the wider political stage? Fellow Jason Jay from MIT Sloan explores what happens inside ourselves when conversations go off the rails in this TEDxBocaRaton presentation.

Hundreds of journalists from across the country took part in day-long tours Thursday, Oct. 10, as part of the 29th annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists hosted by Colorado State University. The tours included experts from CSU and ran the gamut, exploring the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, National Renewable Energy Lab, Rocky Mountain National Park, farms and a dairy operation, and the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods in north Denver for a discussion on environmental justice.

“My favorite thing to say is that you can't protect anything until you love it,” says Fellow Jen-Osha Buysse, co-founder and director of West Virginia's Mountain Stewardship & Outdoor Leadership program. “Mountain SOL is all about learning from a place of fun and adventure, and connecting new experiences and learning with coming from a place of passion.”