By: Brigid Murphy, Guest Blogger  When preparing for the holidays, many people, including myself, are thinking about charitable giving. My question is: which organization has the most impact with your money? With so many environmental organizations to donate to it’s really hard to choose! It’s also hard to know where your money is going. Does it just get absorbed …

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This blog is part of a series that features our Organizational Members. We appreciate their continued support and look forward to you learning more about each organization.  Jeffers Foundation purpose and vision is to help foster environmental stewardship among young people and families by encouraging the practice of sound principles of environmental stewardship in schools …

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By: Molly Phipps, MAEE Board Member At the end of July, we hosted our 25th Anniversary Conference at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in Finland, MN. Our theme this year “Speaking Loudly and Acting Boldly for Natural Spaces” focused on what we can do to enact positive change for our environment and environmental education, even as …

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By: Ethan Lewis, former MAEE Board Member On July 16th, the organization I work with participated in the Eat Local Farm Tour. We had approximately 300 people come out to our farm to learn about chickens and their benefits, take wagon rides out into the fields and do family activities. It was a very visual demonstration of …

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School gardens are alive and well in Minnesota! With a packed house of over 350 attendees, the 4th annual Minnesota Schoolyard Garden Conference was a success. Teachers, parents, administrators, master gardeners, and other school garden practitioners and supporters came from all over the state for this one-day event hosted by the Minnesota Schoolyard Garden Coalition, …

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