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  EE Organizations and Projects - Urban and Multicultural

Links on this page include organizations and projects primarily concerned with education about environmental concerns in urban areas and for urban audiences. We also include any projects with a multicultural focus, both urban and rural.

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Bilingual/Latino Resources on the Net
Links to projects, literature, and activities, primarily for Spanish language students.
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Center for Understanding the Built Environment
Based in Kansas, CUBE provides workshops, teaching materials, and a newsletter about urban planning and development.
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Center for Understanding the Built Environment
Based in Kansas, CUBE provides workshops, teaching materials, and a newsletter about urban planning and development.
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Community Resources:Urban Environmental Education  Popular!
"Community Resources works with recreation departments, natural resource management agencies, schools, outreach centers and community groups to develop programs that teach young people ecology, community stewardship, urban resource management and basic job readiness skills in the context of their urban environment." Urban activities for grades preK-6.
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Creek Watchers: Exploring the Worlds of Creeks and Streams
Investigaciones de corrientes (Creek watchers). Un plan de estudios diseñado para animar a grupos de la juventud que exploren ecosistemas de las corrientes. La versión española esta disponible al costo de $5.00, del California Aquatic Science Education Consortium.
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Earth Angels
An inner city pre-teen environmental group of 150 "at risk" children in St. Louis. Projects address forest preservation, recycling, and other issues.
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Ecological Citizenship (EcoCit)
Urban Environmental Education programs, materials, and professional development opportunities from the Chicago Academy of Sciences.
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Environmental Education Services (EES)
EES offers training for "the formal and nonformal educator to use environmental education curricula in and out of the classroom," through hands-on workshops. Based in Washington, D.C., programs are geared to support Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton’s initiative to get all DC public school students on the waters of the Anacostia River by the year 2000.
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Harlem Environmental Access Project
HEAP "is a pilot program to extend the National Information Infrastructure to connect the information resources and expertise of Columbia University and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) with students and teachers in the New York City Economic Empowerment Zone."
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Harlem Environmental Impact Project
Project to educate parents, teachers, community leaders and others in the Harlem community on lead poisoning risks in water soil and residences and strategies to reduce or eliminate lead sources.
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PLT in the City
Project Learning Tree's "community-based program that trains ... leaders to use PLT materials in an urban context. PLT in the City strengthens the reach of environmental education to traditionally underserved audiences."
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Peer Partners in Environmental Education
PPEE "trains high school students, both Spanish and English speaking, to give monthly environmental education presentations to ‘partner’ elementary schools. Los Angeles program from the Center for Environmental Education.
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Stanford Youth Environmental Science Program
"SYESP is a summer residence program for exceptionally gifted, low-income, underserved, predominantly minority high school juniors and seniors who are concerned with the environment."
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Urban Leadership Collaboratives
NAAEE's program to improve collaboration and effectiveness in the delivery of environmental education and ensure that educator training in urban areas keeps pace with the pressing need.
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