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Environmental Education

The field and practice of environmental education refers to both formal and non-formal efforts to teach about how natural environments function, how human behaviors shape and influence those natural functions, and how we can change our behaviors in order to sustain a healthy environment for the future of all living…

Environmental Education Minor Information Session

March 13, 4:00 pm5:00 pm

Hoping to use your your knowledge of environmental science to teach others? Want to add a dose of ecological expertise to your education, outdoor education, or social science degree? Or maybe your humanities major has opened a passion for engaging others in the natural world? Environmental education is relevant to…

Study Abroad

Off-campus Study

…your travel course deposit. 2020 May Term Travel Courses Climbing Instructor Development (OED 414 01) $1,225 Lake Superior Circumnavigation (IDS 180 01) $1,350 Paddling Instructor Development (OED 409 01) $400 Teaching in Environmental Education (EDU 250 01) $500 Urban Outdoor Education (OED 385 01) $400 Wildlife Handling & Immobilization (NRS…

Young ladies in a canoe on a lake with fall colors behind them.

Youth Outreach Programs

…examination; new ideas for how to use quality literature to increase young people’s ability to ask questions about the world around them, speculate, hypothesize, seek information, and develop questions; strategies for meeting state common core standards for environmental education and English language arts; optional wolf howl excursion on Thursday evening;…

SONWA winning books

SONWA Winners 1991-Present

Nature Books for Adults and Children

…by communal wolf howls; the inevitability of losing our children to their own lives; and many more. Moore is the distinguished professor of philosophy at Oregon State University in Corvallis, where she teaches environmental ethics, philosophy of nature, and a variety of courses for OSU’s new MA in Environmental Leadership….

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Happy Birthday, Earth Day!

…Earth Day launched the “environmental decade of the 1970s” producing the bulk of today’s environmental laws with the passage of 28 pieces of federal legislation, such as the Endangered Species Act and muscular amendments to the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts. States, counties and municipalities were also moved to…

Forest Lodge Educational Campus Takes Shape

…to place through education and the arts, and foster policy dialogues that provide leadership on the environmental issues of our times. As a preeminent environmental liberal arts college, Northland is well positioned to shepherd hands-on outdoor studies, research, and workshops here. Jason Maloney, the team leader overseeing the Forest Service’s…