Key Reports and Studies on Environmental Literacy
All of A Place: Connecting Schools, Youth and Community Jack Chin, Funders Forum on Environment and Education, June 2001. Download PDF
Are We Building Environmental Literacy?
A Report by the Independent Commission on Environmental Education, 1997. Go
to website
Blueprint for a Green Campus: The Campus Earth Summit Initiatives for Higher Education
Campus Earth Summit, 1995. Download PDF
Class of 2000 Report: Environmental Education, Practices and Activism on Campus
Benjamin Strauss, 1996. The Nathan Cummings Foundation, 475 Tenth Avenue, Fourteenth
Floor, New York, NY,10018.
Closing the Achievement Gap: Environment as an Integrating Context for Learning Gerald Lieberman, 1998. Science Wizards, 13648 Jackrabbit Road, Poway, California 92064. Download PDF
Complex Environmental Systems: Synthesis for Earth, Life, and Society in the 21st Century
NSF Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education, National Science Foundation, 2003. Download PDF
Creating a Community Specific Environmental Education Website, Chapter 3: Environmental Education on the Edge (draft)
Catherine Kavassalis, 2003. Go to website
Defusing Environmental Education: An evaluation of the critique of the environmental education movement, Gregory A. Smith, 2000. Center for Education Research, Analysis, and Innovation, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Go to website
Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World David W. Orr, State University of New York Press, 1992. ISBN:0-7914-0874-4.
Education for Sustainability: An Agenda for Action
President's Council on Sustainable Development, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995. ISBN 0-16-048783-8 Go to website
Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit Version 2
Rosalyn McKeown, 2002. Download PDF
Engaging the Public on Biodiversity: A Road Map for Education and Communication Strategies
The Biodiversity Project, 1998. Go to website
Environment-based Education: Creating High Performance Schools and Students National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, 2000. Download PDF
Environmental Education at a Glance National Association of Conservation Districts, 1998. EPA 171B98004.
Environmental Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Grantmaking Jack Chin, Funders Forum on Environment and Education, 2001. Go to website
Environmental Education in the 21st Century: Theory, Practice, Progress, and Promise Joy A. Palmer, Routledge, 1998. ISBN: 0-415-13197-9.
Environmental Education in the United States?Past, Present, and Future
Collected Papers of the 1996 National Environmental Education Summit, Burlingame,
CA, Michele Archie (principal editor), North American Association for Environmental
Education, 1998. (out of print)
Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence
North American Association for Environmental Education. Go
to website
Environmental Literacy in the United States: What Should Be & What Is & Getting from Here to There
Trudi L. Volk and Bill McBeth, North American Association for Environmental Education, 1997. USEPA EPA-NT902897-01-0.
Environmental Science and Engineering for the 21st Century: The Role of the National Science Foundation National Science Board, National Science Foundation, 2000. Go to website
Environmental Studies in the K-12 Classroom: A Teacher?s View
Survey Research Center, North American Association for Environmental Education and the Environmental Literacy Council, 2000. Download PDF
Essential Readings in Environmental Education The Center for Instruction, Staff Development and Evaluation, 2001. Stipes Publishing, Champaign, Illinois, ISBN: 0-58874-070-6
Excellence in EE - Guidelines for Learning (k-12)
North American Association for Environmental Education, 1999. Go to website
Guidelines for the Initial Preparation of Environmental Educators North American Association for Environmental Education, 2000. Go to website
Increasing Diversity in the Environmental Field, Environmental Careers Organization 2001. Go to website
The Island Press Consortium on Environmental Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Insights from the White Oak Symposium
Kristy Manning, Center for Resource Economics/Island Press, 1999. Download Word Document
Moving into the Educational Mainstream, Infobrief Number 26,
Michele Archie, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
August 2001. Go to website
The National Report Card on Environmental Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Roper Starch Worldwide, National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, 2001, 1999, 1998, 1997. Go to website
New Tools for Environmental Protection: Education, Information, and Voluntary Measures Thomas Deitz and Paul C. Stern (Editors), National Academy Press, 2002. ISBN: 0-309-08422-9
Pieces of the Puzzle: An Overview of the Status of Environmental Education in the United States Gerald Lieberman, Science Wizards, 1995. Download PDF
Policy and The Environment: Education for a Sustainable and
Secure Future, Third National Conference on Science, Draft Background
Document
David Blockstein (editor), January 30, 2003. Download PDF
Reaching Out: Broadening College Student Constituencies for Environmental Protection
Loges and Kidder, the Institute for Global Ethics, 2000. Go to website
Report Assessing Environmental Education in the United States and
the Implementation of the National Environmental Education Act of 1990
EPA National Environmental Education Advisory Council, U.S. EPA, 1996. Download PDF
Report to Congress 11 (Draft) EPA National Environmental Education Advisory Council, 2002. Download PDF
State of the Campus Environment: A National Report Card on Environmental Performance and Sustainability in Higher Education Mary McIntosh with Kathleen Cacciola, Stephen Clermont, and Julian Keniry, NWF Campus Ecology Program, 2000. Go to website
Stumbling Towards Sustainability
John C. Dernbach (editor), the Environmental Law Institute, Washington, DC, 2002. ISBN: 1-58576-036-6
A Survey of the Status of State-level Environmental Education in the United States, 1998 Update
Abbey Ruskey, Rick Wilke & T. Beasley, Journal of Environmental Education, Spring 2001. Go to website
Using Environment-based Education to Advance Learning Skills and Character Development
North American Association for Environmental Education and the National
Environmental Education and Training Foundation, 2001. Download PDF
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