We are excited to announce exciting new leadership changes in GPSEN’s Board of Directors. Our current Board President, Heather Spalding, has accepted a newly-created position at Central Washington University’s (CWU) College of Education and Professional Studies! Heather will match new...
It is well-known that urban forests and green spaces are important for urban residents, but surprisingly little is known about access issues and peoples’ views on the services such assets offer. Our project, which is implemented with support from and in conjunction with the US Forest Service,...
Young people across the country have caused controversy with school walkouts to demand action on the climate crisis – but they’re also forcing change inside the classroom. As thousands of students prepare to take to the streets again this month, politicians are not the only ones under the...
Higher education must drive efforts to promote greater working across disciplines and sectors in order to generate the knowledge needed for meeting the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development (Global Goals) by 2030. This is what IDS Director, Professor Melissa Leach told senior...
Bridging for Sustainability’s kick-off event on January 23rd, 2020 found 30+ individuals from varying backgrounds in attendance. Each participant brought something unique to the session, lending their individual perspective to the pertinent conversations at hand. While from different...
Portland Public Schools is creating ‘first-in-the-nation’ climate literacy curriculum! Portland Public Schools has announced a partnership with Portland General Electric to create a K-12 climate literacy curriculum that PPS coordinators say will be the nation’s first. The...
Neeraja Havaligi, GPSEN’s ED, submitted a summary of the Talanoa dialogues between participants at the December 2019 Virtual Bridge to COP25, hosted at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) and Lewis and Clark College. It offers a pulse from Portland for climate change and COP25....
Changes to the curriculum will put the country at the forefront of climate crisis education worldwide. Every school in New Zealand will this year have access to materials about the climate crisis written by the country’s leading science agencies – including tools for students to plan their own...
Prince William and the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced a new series of prizes aimed at inspiring and rewarding environmental action over the next decade on Tuesday. Prince William aims to use the Earthshot Prize — inspired by the famous term “Moonshot,” which...
The world has about a decade to get climate change under control, according to a landmark report produced by scientists serving on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. If carbon emissions are not drastically reduced by then, the globe stands to be transformed into...