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Puget Sound Green Pages Environmental
Education Last updated: June 24, 2003 |
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PUGET SOUND AREA
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A non-profit group dedicated to preserving the remaining
ancient forest ecosystems of Western Washington, especially those on public
lands. We believe that education is the key to preservation. Our focus is to
familiarize people with the unique plants that grow in the ancient forest
ecosystem and to teach the traditional beneficial uses of these plants. We
offer plant identification field trips out to a low elevation ancient forest
in the Western Washington Cascades and in-city classes on preparing your own
homemade herbal remedies using native plants, including oils, salves, and
medicinal tinctures. |
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Antioch
University Graduate Program in Environment & Community |
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For professionals working, or planning to work, in
environmental or community development fields with organizations,
corporations or public agencies. The Program is based on the premise that a
just and sustainable world requires us to recognize the inseparability of
social and environmental equity. It offers a unique focus on the relationship
between the natural environment and human communities by emphasizing social
science perspectives and natural science literacy. |
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Founded in 1993, EarthCorps' mission is to create a global
community through local environmental service. |
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Facilitates communication between educators and schools
focusing on watershed education programs. Good source for teachers. Links to
environmental education resources. |
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Laboratory Waste Minimization and Pollution
Prevention, a Guide for Teachers |
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This manual was developed by Battelle/Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory as a public service and is a hands-on, introductory guide
designed especially for high-school and junior high science teachers. |
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Provides field-based environmental education about the
natural history and culture of the Pacific Northwest to people of all ages.
Our mission is to conserve and restore Northwest environments by building an
ecologically literate and engaged public. We promote community education,
involvement and stewardship with an emphasis on biological diversity,
wildlife and their habitats, mountain ecosystems, watersheds, and wildlands. |
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Providing environmental education opportunities for youth
and adults throughout the Pacific Northwest |
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OPI serves schools and communities from the Pacific
Northwest (the majority are from greater Puget Sound) with residential field
science programs, Elderhostels, youth summer adventures, teacher training,
conference space, and field seminars about natural sciences, the arts, and
outdoor skills. |
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An Oceanographic Field Trip into the Underwater World of
Puget Sound. PMR is a non profit educational organization dedicated to
Preserving Puget Sound through Hands-On environmental education. |
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Provides hands-on environmental education and leadership
experiences for youth and adults. On exciting voyages aboard the historic
schooner Adventuress, participants learn about the majesty and vulnerability
of our region's definitive resource, Puget Sound. |
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and issues. |
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TESC offers evening/weekend classes through the Part-Time
Studies program as well as full-time day programs. Part-Time Studies at
Evergreen has new environmental studies programs every quarter. The courses
are open to anyone and there is no application process, students simple
register. |
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Education Research Center, and the Region X OSHA Training
Institute. Occupational health and safety courses. |
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A distinctive learning center located on Whidbey Island,
just an hour north of Seattle, the Institute offers a wide range of retreats,
programs, events, resources, and participation in a growing network of people
who share common concerns and commitments. The Institute is grounded in the
awareness that times of turbulent and unprecedented change call for
commitment to a new vision of the future for Earth, Spirit, and the Human
Future. |
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Wild Inside is developed for teachers, group leaders,
students and families to learn about nature and the environment of the
Pacific Northwest. It has Information about wildlife, planning info for
teachers and group leaders, games for kids, outlines programs & resources
offered by Wild Inside. A great resource for anyone interested in nature in
the area. |
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Association
for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) |
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Centre
for Computer Based Learning in Land Use and Environmental Sciences |
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Provides support for lecturers who wish to effectively
implement computer-assisted learning (CAL) for courses in agriculture,
environmental science, soil science, forestry, horticulture, the applied
biological sciences, rural economics, rural business management and rural
land use planning. |
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CREST:
Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology |
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Publishing information about renewable energy, energy
efficiency and sustainability available on the Internet. |
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(formerly NCEET) A clearinghouse for K-12 environmental
education resources. |
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We're here so people can get an inside look at forests and
the forest industry. Learn about forest ecosystems, forestry practices, wood
as a renewable resource and much more from the variety of environmental
educational materials and information available to teachers and children of
all ages. |
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GLOBE - Global
Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment |
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A worldwide science and education program coordinating the
work of students, teachers, and scientists to monitor the global environment.
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GradSchools.com (menu of Enviornmental Educaton
Graduate Schools) |
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A free service to help teachers and classes link with
partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and
project exchanges. |
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Dedicated to inspiring in students a lifelong passion to
pursue learning in science, math, and technology through exploration and
discovery. |
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Fosters change by identifying outstanding men and women at
the mid-career level from around the world representing a range of
backgrounds and provides them with the training designed to enhance their
leadership capabilities and knowledge of issues related to environment and
development. |
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A nonprofit organization working to help colleges and
universities expand their efforts to make environmentally sustainable and
just action a foundation of learning and practice. Education for
Sustainability (EFS) is a lifelong learning process that leads to an informed
and involved citizenry having the creative problem-solving skills, scientific
and social literacy, and commitment to engage in responsible individual and
cooperative actions. |
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Outline some of the best sustainability initiatives of
higher education institutions, both on campuses and in communities.
Individual profiles document efforts and accomplishments in community
involvement, curriculum change, greening the campus, institutional
transformation and sustainability research. |
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