Alice Champagne, Watershed
Protection Specialist/Erosion & Sedimentation: 404-352-9828 x
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National Environmental Organizations
Center for Marine Conservation's
International
Coastal Cleanup . Mission is to remove debris from the shorelines,
waterways, and beaches of the world's lakes, rivers, and the ocean; to
collect valuable information on the amount and types of debris; and to
educate people on the issue of marine debris.
Center for Watershed Protection: Founded
in 1992, the Center for Watershed Protection works with local, state,
and federal governmental agencies, environmental consulting firms, watershed
organizations, and the general public to provide objective and scientifically
sound information on effective techniques to protect and restore urban
watersheds.
Second Nature is a nonprofit
organization that helps colleges and universities expand their efforts
to make environmentally sustainable and just action a foundation of learning
and practice.
Terrene Institute : "To increase public awareness of the
values and productivity of wetlands, encourage people to enjoy them, and
to protect, recognize, enhance, commemorate, and restore our Nation's
wetlands." American Wetlands
U.S. Public Interest Research Group:
"U.S. PIRG's mission is to deliver persistent, result-oriented public
interest activism that protects our environment, encourages a fair, sustainable
economy, and fosters responsive, democratic government." See, in
particular, their Save our Wild Forests
website.
The Wilderness Society: "Founded
in 1935, TWS works to protect America's wilderness and to develop a nationwide
network of wild lands through public education, scientific analysis, and
advocacy. Our goal is to ensure that future generations enjoy the clean
air and water, beauty, wildlife, and opportunities for recreation and
spiritual renewal provided by the nation's pristine forests, rivers, deserts,
and mountains."
Association for Experiential Education:
Provides teachers with information on accreditation, a job bulletin,
a journal, and networking with other educators.
Center for Environmental
Education: Advances K-12 environmental education through a grant
program, a curricula library, outreach programs, and a database of
youth groups.
EE-Link: Directory of classroom
materials and other resources.
Acorn Naturalists: Provides
curricula and other resources for hands-on environmental education.
Art
and Ecology: Find resources for integrating art and environmental
issues in the classroom as well as an online exhibition of contemporary
ecological art.
EPA's Environmental Education
Center: Curriculum resources and activities, ideas for community
service projects, and information about awards, workshops, conferences,
jobs, and scholarships. K-12
Green Teacher: Quarterly
magazine for all grade levels.
Kidsgardening: National
Gardening Association offers classroom stories, articles about basic
botany, educational activities, and other resources for gardening
with kids.
Sierra Club Environmental Education Activists List: Send an email
to listserv@lists.sierraclub.org with no subject and the message Info
CE-EE-Activists.
Center for Environmental
Citizenship: Offers networking resources for student leaders,
including Campus Green Vote trainings on how to register and educate
voters.
Public Interest Research
Groups: Student chapters encourage environmental advocacy, free
speech, voting, and other types of campus activities.
River of Words: Annual environmental
poetry and art contest for K-12 cosponsored by the International Rivers
Network, the Library of Congress, and former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert
Hass.
Ruckus Society: Teaches skills
of nonviolent civil disobedience.
Second Nature: Provides
training programs and works with schools to incorporate environmental
awareness into college life.
Conservation
Leadership Schools: Penn State University offers high school students
workshops in natural resource management, conservation legislation,
and environmental issues.