Deadline for submission: August 15, 2009
We're nearly half way through 2009 and it's time to start looking backward at what we've already accomplished, and forward at how we will celebrate our successes at the NAAEE conference. We're compiling an "EE Year in Review" show - with photos you submit and the ones we take at the conference - to send to all conference participants on DVD. Please share the highlights of your EE programs, your local award winners, how you have reached new and diverse audiences, with visual images in a 300 dpi format on a CD ROM. Please include credit to the photographer for each image you send.

Submissions should be sent to:

Dr. Joe Baust, NAAEE “EE Year in Review”
Murray State University
3201 Alexander Hall
Murray, KY 42071

Deadline: June 10, 2009
The US EPA, along with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Generations United, and the Rachel Carson Council, Inc., are sponsoring the 3rd Annual Rachel Carson intergenerational "Sense of Wonder" contest. Entries must involve an intergenerational team and describe how this project brought the team in touch with the natural world. This approach reflects Carson's desire to have adults share nature and discovery with children. Submissions are accepted in the categories of photography, essay, poetry, and dance.

Contact: Enesta Jones, (202) 564-4355 x7873, or email jones.enesta@epa.gov

July 27 - August 9, 2009 ~ Saskatchewan, Canada
This two-week field course offers teachers, teacher candidates, and graduate students a range of place-based and experiential activities with an aim of socioecological learning and the development of more integrated and experiential practices for their own work context. Registration #CRN 60855
Contact: marcia.mckenzie at usask.ca

May 15, 2009
Celebrate the fourth annual national Endangered Species Day on May 15, 2009. The purpose of Endangered Species Day (first approved by the US Senate in 2006) is to emphasize the importance of protecting threatened/endangered plant/animal species and to highlight success stories of species recovery. Visit the Web site for activity ideas for in and out of the classroom, including discussions about endangered species, guest speakers, essay and art lessons, poster activity (with some students' art to be displayed later), and field trips. Resource materials, including sample curricula, are also available.

Throughout this Spring, 350+ IMBD events will reach over 500,000 people in the western hemisphere. International Migratory Bird Day, coordinated by Environment for the Americas, marked its 17th year on May 9, 2009, with a celebration of Birds in Culture -- an exploration of the roles birds have played in Native cultures. Birds have been critical to Tribal life and are represented in cave art, weavings, pottery, stories, music, and ceremonies. Learn more about birds in culture, find educational resources for your programs, view the art and special materials created for the 2009 celebration, and locate an event near you on the Explorer's Map.

May 28-30, 2009 ~ Selma, Oregon
The Deer Creek Center for Field Research and Education, the Siskiyou Field Institute, and Southern Oregon University are pleased to announce the Third Conference on Klamath-Siskiyou Ecology: "Sustaining Biodiversity in a Changing Environment." This conference will bring together scientists, resource managers, and engaged citizens to discuss the scope and consequences of environmental change in the ecologically diverse Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion.

The University of Montana is now offering a Graduate Certificate in Wilderness Management. The certificate provides students and professionals with training and expertise in the key topics related to wilderness management. Four online courses cover the history and philosophy of the wilderness system, wilderness law and policy, wilderness recreation management, wilderness ecosystem conservation and resource monitoring, and wilderness planning. Courses are offered as traditional correspondence courses or interactive online courses through the Wilderness Management Distance Education Program in the College of Forestry and Conservation.

This summer Lesley University introduces a new Master of Arts in Urban Environmental Leadership, a low-residency program preparing students to create environmental and social change in the world’s cities. Students in the program investigate urban ecology, environmental justice, urban environmental history, sustainability, and international urban development, all with an eye on the way human forces shape the urban environment.

Application Deadline for 2009-2010: May 29, 2009
The Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute (VNRLI) is a unique program consisting of six three-day leadership training sessions at a variety of locations across Virginia where a host of complex environmental issues are explored against the backdrop of learning collaborative problem-solving techniques. Partial scholarships are available. Contact Christine Gyovai at christineg@virginia.edu for more information.

May 28, 2009, 1-2:30 PM EDT
This special American Wetlands Month Webcast will explore the unique role wetlands can play in reconnecting young people with nature. Distinguished speakers Richard Louv from the Children & Nature Network, Suzanne Pittenger-Slear from Environmental Concern, and Davon Kenneth Johnson from Earth Conservation Corps will discuss their groups’ efforts to reverse trends that have seen our youth become more distanced from the natural world and have less meaningful experiences with nature.

A research into "Green Study in French" is looking into ways to ally immersion in French language as well as in cultural and environmental action. The study would like to hear about existing initiatives for student stays/courses/voluntary work in France or other French-speaking countries.
Send responses to: Therese Saint Paul, Ph.D, Murray State University, therese.saintpaul@murraystate.edu

Looking for a good book to share with young readers? The Newton Marasco Foundation annual Green Earth Book award winners were just announced.

Co-winners - Picture Book Category:
Planting the Trees of Kenya, written and illustrated by Claire A. Nivola.
Varmints, by Helen Ward and illustrated by Marc Craste.

Winner - Nonfiction Category:
My Space/Our Planet, by Myspace Community, Jeca Taudte, and Dan Santat.

Winner - Children's Fiction Category:
In Night of the Spadefoot Toads, by Bill Harley.

Co-Winners - Young Adult Fiction Category:
In Blind Faith Hotel, by Pamela Todd.
Write Naked, by Peter Gould.

30% of proceeds from books ordered through NMF go back into the book award program. Contact: Jenny Schmidt

Join thousands of others in gathering valuable environmental information with Project BudBurst. Project BudBurst is a national field campaign for educators, students, families, and other volunteers designed to engage the public in making careful observations of the phenophases such as first leafing, first flower, and first fruit ripening of a diversity of trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses in their local area. Participants contribute to a better understanding of how changing climates impact plant species. For the 2009 field campaign, a number of new features have been added to the Web site.

EPA funded study shows that environmental education programs provide the impetus in improving the air quality at the surveyed institutions' facilities.

Legacy Online, March/April 2009
By: Wren Smith.
This article describes how words can make the experience of nature last well beyond the moment and encourages the Interpreter to express the lesson through the eyes of a poet because both nature and language have rhythms that sing to the heart.

May 2009
Teachers can take their students on an electronic field trip and learn about monarch butterflies with MonarchLIVE: A Distance Learning Adventure. Two live, 60-minute Web casts are planned for May 2009 from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern Time. On May 19, MonachLIVE will visit Eden Place, an urban oasis in Chicago that has had big results for butterflies and people. On May 21, MonarchLIVE will go to Battle Creek Environmental School in St. Paul, Minnesota. The program will feature information about monarch migration, spring and summer life cycle, the importance of milkweed, threats to monarchs, and how to preserve monarchs and their habitats.
For more information, contact Kristy Liercke at lierckkx@pwcs.edu or (703) 791-7359.

Green Teacher is pleased to announce the publication of the last of its series of Teaching Green books. This 240-page resource is for anyone working with young people in grades 9-12, whether in schools or in nonformal educational settings. It offers 50 teaching strategies that promote learning about natural systems and foster critical thinking about environmental issues. It contains new approaches to learning, strategies for learning to live sustainably, and numerous activities that promote interdisciplinary learning. For more details or to order copies, visit:

Come explore the ocean - in tide pools and on sandy beaches, in deep waters and on ghost ships, with whales, clams, and oystercatchers - in the latest issue of Sea Stories, the online literary and artistic journal. You'll also find information on our nominations for the 2008 Pushcart Prizes - as well as a more sobering note about the future of Sea Stories. Join us in celebrating the world's oceans at:

Teens for Planet Earth (T4PE) has been completely transformed into a social networking site with a brand new look and a whole new set of ways to help teens and adults who work with teens carry out environmental service-learning projects. Members can connect with teammates and friends as well as many other T4PE members in their area and around the world. They can share photos and videos of their projects; start or comment on a blog, post upcoming events related to their projects; find resources to help them carry out a successful project; start a group to communicate with team members, keep track of tasks, and encourage reflection; offer and receive advice on conducting service-learning projects; and much more.

Deadline: April 24, 2009
Is your town the best place to raise an outdoor kid? Or is it someplace you've visited and fell in love with? Select up to 10 unranked cities from the list as finalists in this survey. The results will appear in the July/August 2009 issue of BACKPACKER.

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