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CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Piedmont Natural Gas Foundation is currently accepting applications from eligible 501(c) (3) nonprofit organizations, governmental and educational institutions for its 2013 Environmental Stewardship and Energy Sustainability Competitive Grant Program. The Piedmont Natural Gas Foundation (PNGF) invests in nonprofit organizations that work toward one or more of the following objectives within North Carolina, South Carolina and...
Grants will fund non-profit organizations focusing on environmental stewardship SAN DIEGO, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) kicked-off its annual Environmental Champions initiative, a $1 million charitable giving campaign that funds local environmental non-profit organizations in San Diego and southern Orange counties. Beginning today, SDG&E is welcoming proposals from non-profit organizations for programs that engage and educate...
The nation's largest celebration of environmental education starts today, with a message by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) April 15, 2013 National Environmental Education Week starts today – the nation's largest celebration of environmental education – and will spotlight ways by which technology can enhance environmental learning. This year’s theme, Taking Technology Outdoors, is part of EE Week’s multi-year focus on Greening STEM...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Much like one theory surrounding the changing global temperatures -- Americans’ concern over climate change has gone in cycles -- rising for several years and falling for a few years. According to a new Gallup poll, Americans concerns on climate change are on the rise, with 58 percent of respondents saying they worry “a great deal” or a “fair amount” about global warming. “U.S. worry about global warming is heading...
Environmental education programs that took middle school students outdoors to learn helped minority students close a gap in environmental literacy, according to research from North Carolina State University. The study, published March 22 in PLOS ONE, showed that time outdoors seemed to impact African-American and Hispanic students more than Caucasian students, improving minority students' ecological knowledge and cognitive skills, two measures of environmental literacy. The statewide study...
A child can directly influence the attitude and behaviour of their parents towards the environment without them even knowing it. This is according to a group at Imperial College London who have, for the first time, provided quantitative support for the suggestion that environmental education can be transferred between generations and that it can actually affect behaviour. Their findings have been published today, 13 February, in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters....
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and LG Electronics USA (LG) have entered into an agreement to collaborate on a number of environmentally beneficial goals. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121227/CG34588) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120524/MM13718LOGO-b) Under the agreement signed by EPA and LG (a 2012 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year), the company has pledged to participate in a broad array of EPA...
California school district superintendents, California Department of Education's STEM Office, Cal/EPA and CalRecycle endorse these interactive textbooks SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The California next-generation parenting movement ecodads® have created a new form of fun education apps, Interactive Textbooks (iBook), for the Apple® iPad® called "Touchable Books" to target and engage the iGeneration of digital-native students. These iBook modules bring to...
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The California educational non-profit ecodads® today launched a Kickstarter crowd-funding project seeking support for the creation of two technology applications that would make California's landmark Education and the Environment Initiative curriculum available via Apple® iPads®. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121127/DC19249) The "Environmental Edutainment Apps Project" will develop apps that adapt the State...
SILVER SPRING, Md. and ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Discovery Education and the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute's Education and Research Foundation today announced a series of new educational and activity features for TurfMutt, a science-based program featuring standards-aligned curriculum, which teaches K-5 students how things grow, the value of personal and community outdoor space and how to tend to them in a sustainable way. (Logo:...
