NEEF's Leyla Erk MrCurdy blogged about the importance of outdoor play time for children - and tips for getting kids outdoors - in the National Wildlife Federation's Green Hour.
Three D.C.-area schools are the first grant recipients in the EE Week Small Grants Program. Recipients of the grants will each receive $1,000 and will be required to complete a school greening effort. Read more about the three grant recipients.
Read the research article on our Children's Environmental Health Faculty Champions Initiative in Environmental Health Perspectives-in-Press.
NEEF's Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma: Guidelines for Health Care Providers has been redesigned and reprinted. View the Asthma Guidelines.
National High School Challenge grant winner Sue Ellen Lyons discusses her award winning program on Good Morning New Orleans on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Read about all the National High School Challenge grant winners.
NEEF’s Children and Nature Initiative has been endorsed by the National Forum on Children and Nature.
The second annual Bartlett Award winner, Gary Swick of IL, was announced in October, and nominations for this $5000 award are already open for 2009! Deadline Extended to February 13, 2009! Nominate your favorite teacher!
Ann Posegate, with the Earth Gauge program, writes about the station scientist concept in Station Scientists: Beyond the Daily Forecast, in the November/December issue of Weather Wise magazine.
Highlights from NEEF's Business Employee Sustainability Education Survey are now available. The survey was used to gauge how leading companies approach internal employee education and engagement.
National Public Lands Day was held on Saturday, September 27th. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers worked on our public lands -- mending fences, clearing trails, and planting trees. Did you participate? Enter the 8th Annual Photo Contest today!
Children and Nature Initiative: Discover health benefits of playing outdoors for children.
Get Outside. Find a nature center in your area -- the map includes contact information for over 2,000 nature and environmental education centers.
NEEF is excited to announce the theme of National Environmental Education Week 2009: Be Water Wise! EE Week will be held from April 12-18, 2009. Stay tuned for new Be Water Wise! content on this site, and be sure to register for EE Week!
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National Environmental Education Week brought out 3½ million students across the country. In Utah, nearly 400 students celebrated by planting 1,000 shrubs in the Diamond Fork Youth Forest as part of a stream restoration project. More success stories....