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  • Wiki Page: Inspirational Quotes for Outdoor Educators

    Inspirational quotes can be used in a variety of ways in an outdoor education setting. On trail - For solo hike cards, to introduce a lesson, to reflect before finding "special spots", to re-cap a lesson. At meals - You can make it a point to share an inspirational nature saying at each mealtime...
    onTue, Oct 12 2010

  • Blog Post: Is "Smart" the new "Green"?

    Watching and listening to "the discourse" on environmentalism in the popular press has been fascinating over the last five years. The sheer number of descriptors used to try to "brand" environmentalism for the 21st century seem to increase right along with our carbon emissions. Who...
    onWed, Apr 15 2009

  • Blog Post: Education, Climate Change, and Obama's Failure of Imagination

    OK, so we get it...don't we? Climate change is human-induced and the increasing amounts of greenhouse gases we are putting into the atmosphere have a direct effect on global temperatures. This has serious and long term consequences for all life on this planet. Al Gore made this clear in Inconvenient...
    onThu, Apr 2 2009

  • Blog Post: Race, class, climate change, and outdoor education

    A recent post on climate change and race ( http://tinyurl.com/b6fzp7 ) brings up an issue that really needs to be on the forefront of outdoor and environmental education moving forward. It is becoming increasingly clear that climate change will become the defining issue of our times. Just as with civil...
    onFri, Mar 13 2009

  • Blog Post: Is Wilderness a Useful Environmental Ideal Anymore?

    I recently came across Brian Merchant’s blog about 7 classic American “Green” works of literature here: http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/read-american-environmental-classics.html . In the list: Walden by HD Thoreau, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, Leaves of Grass by Walt...
    onThu, Feb 19 2009
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