The 2017 Awards Social will be held on Sunday, November 5th from 2pm – 4pm. (Don’t forget to set your clocks forward the night before). This is a free event and light refreshments will be served.
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 …
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 …
By: Katelyn Bocklund, MAEE Board Member MAEE Celebrates 25 Years by Slidely Slideshow The Minnesota Association for Environmental Education celebrated its 25th anniversary with cake, food, and friends at the Lebanon Hills Regional Park Pavilion on Sunday, June 25. Although the day felt more like early Fall instead of early Summer, the adults enjoyed reminiscing about …
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By: Jenna Totz, MAEE Board Member We hope you had a fun evening at Fulton Brewery for our 2nd Annual Arbor Day Trivia andNetworking event. This is an important event for us as it brings people together to raise awareness of, and support environmental education. At MAEE we want to coordinate conferences and gatherings to …
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By: Guest blogger Bailey Stanard “I told you so” is the first thing that came to mind upon reading the recent article stating “an estimated more than 500 birds killed annually…” in the flyway above U.S. Bank Stadium. As I read further, my blood began to boil. I shouldn’t be surprised that when I mentioned …
By: Wendy Tremblay, MAEE Board of Directors and Early Childhood Nature Specialist “Why do you do it?” A simple question. Not always with a simple answer. I’ve been asked this question more than once in the past month, and it really got me thinking about my purpose. Not just in my current job or my …
By Guest Blogger: Bailey Stanard As a part time interpretive naturalist sitting in the warm office of my full time job while my naturalist coworkers get to explore the great outdoors this week, I find myself a little less envious than on a warm spring day. Being a Minnesotan all my life, I would think I …
By: Britt Gangeness, previous MAEE Board Member –Britt Gangeness coordinates and develops outreach and education projects at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). She has been working with the Minnesota Humanities Center on the Smithsonian Water/Ways project since 2014 and was thrilled to see the exhibit hit the streets this summer. Minnesota has a very unusual …
By: Jennifer Elsen I attended the North American Association for Environmental Education conference in Madison, Wisconsin, October 19th-October 21st. It was held at the beautiful waterfront convention center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright on Lake Monona. When I arrived early morning at the center, I was first drawn to the sunlight coming over the lake …