NAAEE is offering many family-friendly activities at the conference this year. Read about the EcoKids Camp for conference participants' youngsters, the dinner and auction at Nauticus, and the Oyster Roast on the beach!

Demonstrate your commitment to excellence in EE by submitting your materials for an independent peer review. Then educators will easily find your reviewed resources in NAAEE's National EE Directory, flagged with the symbol that shows your role in developing a "culture of quality" in the EE field.

Use this list to help you pack your bags for the conference -- next week!

Haily Summerford talks about her "personal green efforts" in this Fort Worth Good Nature article featuring Fort Worth, Texas, residents doing their part to protect and respect the environment.

Look for Haily's session "An Inconvenient Truth: Climate Change & What You Can Do" at the NAAEE Conference, on Thursday, November 15, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 5D.

Action For Nature is proud of its 2007 International Young Eco Hero Award winners. Young people aged 8 to 16, selected for their outstanding environmental achievements, are from Turkey, India, Korea, Costa Rica, Canada, and the USA. The next application deadline is February 28, 2008. Read about the inspiring 2007 awardees and get information on the guidelines and application for 2008 on the Web site.

Deadline: December 15, 2007
The Alston/Bannerman Fellowship Program is committed to advancing progressive social change by helping to sustain long-time activists (more than 10 years) of color. The program honors those who have devoted their lives to helping their communities organize for racial, social, economic, and environmental justice, and provides resources for these organizers to take sabbaticals for reflection and renewal. Fellows receive a $25,000 award to take sabbaticals of three months or more.

Contest runs from September 4, 2007 to April 30, 2008
The NAAEE has teamed up with QuantumShift.tv to launch the 'Be the Change, Share the Story! School Video Contest. The contest is challenging 5,000 teams of students at schools across the US and Canada to make a difference and tell the world.

Teams pick a social or environmental project and create two short videos about their project. The first video tells how the team plans to make a difference, and the follow up video shows the team in action, making a difference!

Students, viewers, and celebrity judges can log on and vote for their favorite videos. The top teams in each age group will win $50,000 in cash and prizes for their schools. Quantum Shift.tv wants to empower kids to Be the Change, and Share the Story."

If you have an NAAEE project that you're already working on, this might be a great addition to your project.

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Deadline: December 15, 2007
Summer 2008 Environmental Education Adventures are still available for a limited time through the Earth Explore Foundation. Middle School educators can travel expense free to Belize, Alaska, Hawaii, and Italy with their own students, and explore issues of the environment and Planet Earth with experts in each location. Contact the Earth Explore Foundation toll free at 877.224.3623 by December 15th to register as a leader, or register and obtain information online.

November 16, 2007 ~ Grand Rapids, Michigan
This event "Plugging the Leaks: Energy Conservation and Efficiency - Opportunities Knock!" will work toward strengthening collaboration among higher education, government, business, and civil society to reduce energy waste. Sponsored by Michigan Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, and the State Energy Office.

January 15 - February 24, 2008 ~ Online
Duke Environmental Leadership (DEL) Program
Instructor: Brian Day, Executive Director of NAAEE
This course provides environmental professionals with an introduction to the strategies and tools of environmental communication that effectively lead to changes in behavior. The environmental social marketing tools gained will benefit all practicing environmental professionals faced with the challenge of changing behaviors. For more information and to register, please visit the Web site, or email del@nicholas.duke.edu

July 21-23, 2008 ~ Nebraska City, Nebraska
The 2008 Working Forum will present new ideas and tools for advocacy, developed since the first Forum, to help reconnect young children with nature. Professionals from all over the world will be presenting at this highly interactive event, including those concerned with childhood health and obesity issues. Registration for the 2006 Forum sold out two months before the event -- early registration is recommended.

Deadline: December 15, 2007
The Visitor Studies Association is seeking proposals for conference presentations and pre-conference workshops for Theory, Practice, & Conversations, the 21st Annual Visitor Studies Association Conference. The 2008 conference, which will be held in Houston, Texas, July 15–19, 2008, will focus on creating bridges to understanding among researchers, evaluators, and those who apply research and evaluation within organizations.

The Green Textbook Initiative is coordinated by the National Wildlife Federation and the Green Press Initiative and aims to reduce the environmental impacts of textbooks. By going to the link below, teachers and other educational stakeholders can sign a statement calling on publishers of educational materials to minimize their environmental impacts by using environmentally responsible paper.

The Air & Waste Management Association, an international association of environmental professionals, has published EE Resource Guides for air quality and non-point source pollution prevention for grades K-12, as well as the grade 6-8 Air Quality guide in Spanish and French. Fact sheets can be downloaded from the Web site.

ECOBASURA is a board game to help teach recycling, raw material recovery, profitable reduction of wastes, and the environmental renovation. Created in Colombia and endorsed by its Educational Ministry, it is adaptable game to all languages and cultures. The Web site is available in English or Spanish.

The October 10, 2007 issue of Edutopia "Go Green 2007: Education for the Ecosystem" is devoted to environmental education. Search the "Go Green" resource database by topic for activities such as field trips or lesson plans by grade-level. Learn about schools involved in innovative learning projects on cool schools and sustainable schoolyard design. Read the articles on EE activities happening in and out of the classroom.

NBC is airing a week of planet-friendly programming beginning on November 4th, to kick off their new "Green is Universal" campaign. Programming includes a guest appearance by former Vice President Al Gore on 30-Rock. Look for green themes throughout their schedule.

This program was performed live by students from New York's High School for Environmental Studies on May 4, 2007, at the United Nations for the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development (UN-CSD). Hear the songs, read the script and background information, and see the full U.N. performance and the 4-1/2 minute trailer of the show.

The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies is launching YaleEnvironment Online in Spring 2008, with award-winning former editor of Mother Jones and Audubon magazines, Roger Cohn, as editor. The publication will include op-ed articles, reports, multi-media content, panel discussions, blogs, and more.
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