Conference overview
Environmental education provides important opportunities for students to become engaged in real world issues that transcend classroom walls.
They can see the relevance of their classroom studies to the complex environmental issues confronting our planet and they can acquire the skills they’ll need to be creative problem solvers and powerful advocates.
“When one generation’s behavior necessitates environmental remediation in the future, a burden of environmental debt is bequeathed to its children just as surely as unbalanced government budgets bequeath a burden of future financial debt.”—Science Advisory Board
This is the time to consider new environmental education legislation that is more systemic in nature and that provides substantive increases in funding for national-level grants, educator training, and research initiatives. We should also be intentional on broadening the scope of strategic-level conversations to include sectors beyond the education community.