Puget Sound Green Pages

Environmental Education

Last updated: June 24, 2003


 


PUGET SOUND AREA

Ancient Forest Education Foundation

 

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.

Antioch University Graduate Program in Environment & Community

 

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.

Earth Corps

 

Founded in 1993, EarthCorps' mission is to create a global community through local environmental service.

Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN)

 

Facilitates communication between educators and schools focusing on watershed education programs. Good source for teachers. Links to environmental education resources.

Kids for Puget Sound

Laboratory Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention, a Guide for Teachers

 

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.

North Cascades Insititute

 

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.

Northwest Environmental Education Council

 

Providing environmental education opportunities for youth and adults throughout the Pacific Northwest

Olympic Park Institute

 

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.

Pacific Marine Research: Marine Science Afloat

 

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.

Seattle Environmental Education Environment Links

Sound Experience

 

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.

SPEECH (South Puget Environmental Education Clearinghouse)

 

and issues.

The Evergreen State College: Environmental Studies Programs

 

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.

UW Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Continuing Education Program Sciences Continuing Education program

 

Education Research Center, and the Region X OSHA Training Institute. Occupational health and safety courses.

Whidbey Institute

 

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.

Wild Inside

 

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)

Centre for Computer Based Learning in Land Use and Environmental Sciences

 

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.

CREST: Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology

 

Publishing information about renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainability available on the Internet.

Environmental Education and Training Partnership

 

(formerly NCEET) A clearinghouse for K-12 environmental education resources.

Forest Resource Environmental Education Network (F.R.E.E.)

 

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.

GLOBE - Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment

 

A worldwide science and education program coordinating the work of students, teachers, and scientists to monitor the global environment.

GradSchools.com (menu of Enviornmental Educaton Graduate Schools)

Intercultural email Classroom Connections

 

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.

JASON Project

 

Dedicated to inspiring in students a lifelong passion to pursue learning in science, math, and technology through exploration and discovery.

LEAD (Leadership for Environment and Development Program)

 

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.

Second Nature

 

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.

Second Nature - Education for Sustainability Profiles

 

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.

US NASA Spacelink

 

 

 


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