(AGENPARL) – lun 08 luglio 2024 Issued: Jul 8, 2024 (3:00pm EDT)
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EPA selects four educational organizations to receive funding for
environmental projects in New England
The environmental education grants, totaling $380,000 for New England, will
empower youth to tackle environmental challenges, foster community resilience,
and advance environmental justice in underserved communities
BOSTON (July 8, 2024) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
announced that four organizations in New England have been selected to receive
a total of $380,000 to empower youth to tackle environmental challenges,
foster community resilience, and advance environmental justice in underserved
communities. The four New England selectees are among 38 organizations across
the country to receive over $3.6 million in funding for projects under EPA’s
Environmental Education Grants Program.
“Environmental education isn’t just about learning facts and figures;
it’s about equipping young people with the skills and knowledge to find
solutions to real-world problems and make a real difference in their daily
lives and communities,” said EPA New England Regional Administrator David W.
Cash. “From students in New Haven tackling environmental justice issues and
high schoolers in Massachusetts leading climate resilience projects, to
Ipswich River Watershed youth participating in a Floating Classroom and
students in the Connecticut River Valley finding nature-based solutions
through design and engineering—this year’s selectees from New England are
bringing the environment to life for our kids, and showing them that they have
the power to protect and improve the world around them.”
This year’s environmental education projects in New England include:
Helping New England’s youth grow into a new, inclusive generation of
environmental justice problem-solvers through interdisciplinary projects,
courses, internships, and leadership portfolios at Common Ground High School.
Empowering high school students from low-income and environmental justice
populations in Massachusetts to resolve climate-related issues through
youth-led, non-partisan civic action projects in Worcester, Springfield, and
Attleboro.
Providing underprivileged youth in Essex and Middlesex Counties, MA with
experiential learning, kayaking, and canoeing on the Ipswich River, along with
developing a watershed study curriculum and offering high school internships
in environmental careers.
Enabling youth in rural underserved communities in the Connecticut River
Valley of Western Massachusetts to develop problem-solving skills related to
water quality, air quality, and climate change through design and engineering
challenges.
The grant funding ranges from $50,000 to $100,000, to organizations that
provide environmental education activities and programs. This year’s New
England selectees will conduct project activities in Connecticut and
Massachusetts.
The following four New England organizations have been selected to receive
this year’s Environmental Education Grants, totaling $380,000:
New Haven Ecology Project
Massachusetts Audubon Society
Ipswich River Watershed Association
Hitchcock Center for the Environment
New Haven Ecology Project – $100,000
Growing Environmental Justice Problem-Solvers in New England Public Schools
Common Ground High School, an environmental justice-themed charter high
school, part of the nonprofit New Haven Ecology Project, will help New
England’s youth grow into a new, inclusive generation of environmental
justice problem-solvers. Through a series of linked experiences, starting with
interdisciplinary healthy-communities projects in grades 9 and 10, continuing
with courses and internships that deepen students’ capacity as environmental
justice leaders, and culminating in senior leadership portfolios and capstone
projects, 225 Common Ground High School students will participate in
environmental justice leadership training and learning while engaging in
meaningful environmental stewardship. Community-based nonprofit organizations
will play a key role in supporting environmental justice learning and
leadership experiences. While building and strengthening a model for teaching
environmental justice at Common Ground High School, New Haven Ecology Project
will also bring together environmental justice organizations and other public
high schools across New England, creating and sharing high-quality teaching
resources, model curricula, and educator professional development
opportunities, all advancing environmental justice teaching in our region’s
public high schools.
Massachusetts Audubon Society – $100,000
Climate Democracy Project: Culturally Responsive In-School Climate Change
Education Toward Local Civic Action and Resilience
The goal of the Climate Democracy Project (CDP) is for high school students
from low-income and environmental justice populations in Massachusetts to
become empowered to resolve climate related issues that impact their local
environments. The Climate Democracy Project will take place in three Title 1
public schools in Worcester, Springfield, and Attleboro, Massachusetts – all
three cities designated as Gateway Cities, meaning that each faces persistent
economic and social challenges. CDP brings together classroom teachers and
non-formal educators to involve students in grades 8-12 in youth-led,
non-partisan civic action projects focused on community-based climate
resilience. Massachusetts Audubon Society (Mass Audubon) seeks to pilot this
programming in three middle or high schools and to collect data and resources
to create a toolkit and training program for educators across Massachusetts.
The CDP will provide place-based, project-based learning around climate
resilience and civic engagement, to build a statewide foundation for a more
environmentally literate citizenry in Massachusetts, aware of the issues
behind climate change, and experienced in the civic engagement skills
necessary to create just and healthy solutions for their communities. This
one-year project will serve three teachers, 120 students, six non-formal
educators, and will advance planning toward production of a “ready to
implement” program/toolkit for high school teachers to increase climate
literacy in schools. The three partner schools include: Doherty Memorial High
School in Worcester; Springfield Renaissance School; and Attleboro High
School.
Ipswich River Watershed Association – $100,000
Breaking down barriers to place-based education and environmental careers in
the Ipswich River watershed
This project will take place in communities that are part of the Ipswich River
watershed or drink Ipswich River water, and in other nearby communities in
Essex and Middlesex Counties, including Peabody, Salem, Lynn, Lawrence, and
Gloucester, MA. These communities are identified as having environmental
justice concerns by the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. The
project has three audiences and accompanying programs: 1) underprivileged
youth participating in summer enrichment programming; 2) 7th grade classrooms;
and 3) underprivileged high schoolers seeking environmental career paths. This
project will support the ongoing Floating Classroom program at Ipswich River
Watershed Association, which brings youth to the river for experiential
programming and environmental education. This project will provide 600 youth
and 60 adult chaperones with experiential learning, kayaking and canoeing, and
watershed education on the Ipswich River during summer 2025. This project will
also support the development of a place-based watershed study curriculum
reaching 200 Ipswich River middle schoolers and at least 20 7th-grade teachers
and paraprofessionals in the 2024-2025 school year. There are eight Title 1
middle schools in Salem, Lynn, North Reading, and Andover, which will be
invited to participate in the 7th grade program along with other interested
middle schools. This project will also support two high school youths’
6-week internship in summer 2025 exploring environmental careers in
monitoring, restoration, and environmental education. The project will ensure
that our internships are available to a diverse pool of applicants, allowing
young people who may experience barriers to participating in internships have
an opportunity to explore an environmental career.
Hitchcock Center for the Environment – $80,000
Schools Exploring Engineering, Design and Sustainability (SEEDS)
The Hitchcock Center will enable youth to develop problem solving skills
related to water quality, air quality, and climate change. Students and their
teachers will explore the intersections of engineering, technology and design
and their critical role in meeting many of the environmental challenges that
confront society today. This project will use design and engineering
challenges to help students understand the idea of using nature-based
solutions to address environmental challenges, identify new career pathways,
get excited and inspired about science and nature and stay hopeful about
climate change solutions. Students will be able to apply the tools and
concepts of systems thinking in their present lives, and to inform the choices
that will affect our future. Over two years The Hitchcock Center will work
with Title I schools in 4 districts representing rural underserved communities
in the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts, engaging
approximately 16 classrooms and 400 students in 5th grade. Each class will
participate in four design challenges (water filtration, stormwater
management, erosion control, and air quality), including a field trip to the
Hitchcock Center to see nature-based solutions in action. Subawards to
participating schools will support student transportation, classroom
materials, and student action projects. This project will develop, test, and
refine the program model with these schools, ensuring sustainable future
learning.
More information:
EPA anticipates providing funding for these projects once all legal and
administrative requirements are satisfied.
Since 1992, EPA has distributed between $2 million and $3.7 million in EE
grant funding each year, for a total of over $95.1 million supporting more
than 3,960 projects. The program traditionally provides financial support for
projects that design, demonstrate or disseminate environmental education
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