Environmental Education

Fellow Story

Skikne quoted on growing Crochet Coral Reef at UC Santa Cruz

Stitch by stitch, row by row, a bright and vibrant coral reef is growing at UC Santa Cruz. It's made out of wool, but it looks a lot like the real thing, with swirls, loops, coils, and squiggles galore. ... No one in the crochet circle strives for absolute perfection. To do so would be unnatural.
August 17, 2017
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Bruni Pizarro

2017 Fellow
Bruni Pizarro (she/ella) is the Director of Brand Strategy & Partner at For La Diáspora, a creative studio that connects brands to the Latine community through culturally-driven design and bilingual communications. Her family migrated from...
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Genie Bey

2017 Fellow
Genie is an engaging environmental professional with a multi-disciplinary background working to advance climate justice. She is theoretically guided by human environment geography and urban political ecology, and methodologically trained in...
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Gill named Geek of the Week by WX Geeks on The Weather Channel

Our Geek of the Week is Dr. Tom Gill, Professor of Environmental Science at UTEP - The University of Texas at El Paso! Favorite non-weather hobby: Landscape photography Favorite type of weather: Dust storms! I am an expert on dust storms and have been studying them for over 30 years.
March 7, 2017
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Ardoin receives NAAEE award for research

The North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)—a network of more than 20,000 educators, researchers, and organizational members in more than 30 countries—has recognized Nicole Ardoin with one of its highest honors for “Outstanding Contributions to Research.”
February 22, 2017
Fellow Story

Blackmer's Church of the Woods featured in the Boston Globe

IT’S 18 DEGREES outside, the sun has barely risen, and the subsidiary roads are swollen with ice. Time to attend the Church of the Woods, of course!
February 21, 2017
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Stephen Blackmer: The Priest in the Trees

A recent feature in Harper's Magazine tells the story of 2010 Fellow Stephen Blackmer, priest at Church of the Woods -- a place of spiritual practice and transformation for people who encounter the divine in nature.
February 21, 2017
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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Beal's Downeast Institute to start $5 million expansion

Having secured about $5 million in funding for the project, the University of Maine System announced Friday that it is moving ahead with a major expansion of a local applied marine research and education facility.
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