Environmental Education

Fellow Story

Creating the post-'post-truth' world, the California way

California’s scientists, government and civil society have a long history of supporting vibrant public conversations that include scientists and then taking action on science-based facts. We need to expand this model beyond our state borders, writes Fellow Amy Luers.
February 21, 2017
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Engaging communities to save threatened seabirds

In the southern Pacific Ocean, off south-central Chile, is a wind-swept island with a mountain blanketed in old-growth forest. This mountain is inhabited by 70% of the world’s Pink-footed Shearwaters, a globally threatened seabird related to albatrosses. The island is called Isla Mocha (pronounced with a hard “ch”: Mo-cha), and is also home to around 600 Mochanos—residents who live in the plains below the mountain, harvesting shellfish and seaweed, grazing cattle and sheep, and fishing in the ferocious currents that roil around the island.
February 15, 2017
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Zavaleta's 'Ecosystems of California' wins prestigious awards

Ecosystems of California, a comprehensive reference on California's remarkable ecological abundance, has won double honors in the 2017 PROSE Awards, the publishing industry's top awards for professional and scholarly works.
February 12, 2017
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Donald J. Trump, Shooting the Ecological Messenger

Fellow Daniel Orenstein writes that scientists, educators and researchers have to become leaders, both advancing the state of knowledge about global climate and the impacts of human activities, and strengthening the ecological literacy of youth. Education will be key in pushing back the damage that the Trump presidency is already causing, he says.
January 27, 2017
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St. Antoine's book wins Lamplighter Award

Three Bird Summer, by Sara St. Antoine During a summer family trip, Adam meets an adventurous neighbor named Alice, and they spend the summer trying to discover the mystery surrounding Adams grandmother. Read more
December 1, 2016
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Fellow-led initiative seeks to quantify the benefits of environmental education

More than ever, we are living in a data-driven world, where stories are enlightening but data drives the bottom line. Funders, policy makers, regulators, resource managers, and other decision makers rely on data to guide strategy.
November 8, 2016
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Kristen Pratt: Promoting sustainability principles in Chicago

In the latest installment of their Working Shift series, WBEZ in Chicago talked with the sustainability manager of Chicago’s Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Fellow Kristen Pratt, about the work she does both inside the museum and in Chicago neighborhoods to promote the principles of sustainability.
November 7, 2016
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Ardoin on team that receives $1.75 million NSF grant for coastal redwood forest initiative

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) Coastal SEES grant supports a team of researchers from seven institutions — UC Merced, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCLA, Stanford University, the Carnegie Institution for Science and Oregon State University — in forming an interdisciplinary “uber-university” to study the relationships between fog, climate change, redwoods and the human response.
October 6, 2016
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From STEM and STEAM to ECO-STEAM: Why the Whole is Important

ECO-STEAM in education has the potential to help turn our educational institutions, and indeed our everyday lives, into laboratories of discovery and innovation in order to emulate nature.
October 3, 2016
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SoundWaters awarded $10K for summer STEM academy

Fairfield-based philanthropic group, Near & Far Aid, has awarded a $10,000 grant to SoundWaters in support of its STEM Academy. SoundWaters’ STEM Academy provides hands-on, science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programming for underserved and low-performing students. “Studies have shown that by the end of 5th grade, low-income children lose two months in reading achievement while student peers from wealthier backgrounds improve and can be as much as three grade levels ahead by middle school,” said SoundWaters President, Leigh Shemitz.
September 29, 2016