ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ALLIANCE
Advancing the field since 1992
What is the Environmental Education Alliance?
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The Environmental Education Alliance (EEA) is a coalition of organizations and educators who envision a world where people and nature thrive. Since 1992, EEA has been working toward the day when every child grows up connected to nature, every person is environmentally-educated, and every community is motivated and empowered to protect the earth and its inhabitants.
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Our STORY
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Our RESOURCES
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Our WORK
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Our FINANCES
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Our TEAM
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What's New at EEA
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News for Environmental Education Providers in Georgia
Calling all EE Providers! The EE Landscape Survey is still accepting forms. Represent! Just click to participate.
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Shuttered Venue Operating Grants are available for non-profit nature centers that had to close during the pandemic. And non-profit environmental education organizations are also eligible for PPP forgivable loans that turn into grants. |
Kudos to these 2021 Environmental Education Award Winners, recognized at the Conference
Signature Programs
EEA hosts conferences, events, and workshops throughout the year and offers these exciting signature programs:
Advanced Training
for EE in GA (ATEEG) ATEEG is a nationally accredited, professional certification program for K-12 and non-formal educators, based on the NAAEE Guidelines for Excellence. |
Council of Outdoor Learning (CoOL)
The Council of Outdoor Learning (CoOL) provides resources, training, models, grants, and awards to advance the use of the outdoors as an extension of the classroom. |
Monarchs Across
Georgia (MAG) Monarchs Across Georgia (MAG) encourages the study of monarchs and the restoration of butterfly habitat, inspiring monarch and pollinator education. |
Partner Programs
EEA sponsors these environmental education programs:
EEinGeorgiaEEinGeorgia.org is the online guide to environmental education for teachers and naturalists in Georgia. Its goal is to build statewide capacity for environmental education. |
Adopt-A-StreamAdopt-A-Stream encourages individuals and communities to monitor and improve streams, wetlands, lakes, and estuaries through water quality testing and stewardship projects. . |
Project WETProject WET is Water Education Today! We envision a world in which action-oriented education enables every child to understand and value water, ensuring a sustainable future. |
Rivers AliveRivers Alive is Georgia's annual volunteer waterway cleanup campaign that targets all waterways in the state, including streams, rivers, lakes, beaches, and wetlands. |
Four Pillars of Environmental Education
Nature
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Environmental Education
Exploring, investigating and making sense of natural phenomena to understand how the world works and ways people impact it.
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Environmental Stewardship
Gathering information, solving bite-sized,
real-world problems, and becoming empowered to make a difference. |
Environmental Justice
Realizing that environmental problems affect some people more directly than others, and working to make the world healthy for all.
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The Value of Outdoor Learning During the Covid Pandemic & Beyond
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Read EEA's statement on ways that outdoor learning can contribute to safety and enable hands-on investigations that could not take place inside, during the pandemic.
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Check out CoOL's Toolkit for Outdoor Learning: your quick-start guide to creating learning spaces, managing classes, and teaching effectively outside the classroom walls.
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Grants
Dragonfly GrantsEEA's Dragonfly Grants inspire innovation by encouraging environmental educators to integrate performing and visual arts with learning experiences. |
Pollinator Habitat GrantsEEA's Monarchs Across Georgia Pollinator Habitat Grants encourage the creation or enhancement of habitat for monarch butterflies. |
CoOL GrantsEEA's CoOL Grants support the creation of outdoor learning stations and engagement of students in experiential learning and environmental stewardship. |
The Power of Environmental Education: Why We Do What We Do
Do the children where you live have opportunities to explore and connect with nature? Do they have the knowledge and skills to identify and design solutions for local environmental problems? Are they confident of their ability to make a difference in the world based on conducting their own environmental projects? This is what drives our work at the Environmental Education Alliance: a vision of children who grow up loving nature, environmentally-literate, and living in communities where people think critically and make decisions to protect the planet and all its inhabitants.
Initiatives
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EE Resources In the interest of advancing the EE field, EEA offers free resources for families, educators, and organizations. Additional resources are available to members only. |
Memorial Forest
The EEA Memorial Forest provides a way to commemorate loved ones who have contributed to the field of environmental education by planting trees in their memory around the state. |
GreenSleeves
EEA's virtual book club offers members a chance to discuss books and share ideas or reflections with each other. We are fortunate to have the authors join us from time to time. |
Special Membership Offer
For the cost of a cup of coffee, you can be a member of EEA. Pay as little as $3/month or $30/year in dues. In light of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, EEA has a limited-time offer to JOIN or RENEW for FREE. Just click the JOIN button below, complete the form, select the Dragonfly category, and enter eeacovid19 in the discount code box. That's it - you're in! You can catch up next year, when times are better. Until then, enjoy this opportunity to meet people, strengthen skills, and keep up with emerging trends and issues. And, if you do have funds to spare, feel free to click the GIVE button below to contribute to our Membership Fund so we can continue to offer this special deal.
