Field Chats: Environmental Applied Civics Essentials

Tune in today for an interview with young changemakers Evie and Charles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These young people, alongside their teacher Daryl Ford at Environmental Charter School , and Sarada Sangameswaran, Director of School Programs at Communitopia , used Environmental Action Civics to lead the charge to implement a schoolwide composting plan. We can’t wait for you to hear their story...

Are your students starting to investigate their community? Let's change from problem-solving to problem-finding! The Earth Force Program Team gives a quick overview of this effective twist on tackling community issues! Show notes: Click here to read our CEO Vince Meldrum's blog post "The Importance of Problem-Finding in Climate Change Education." Click here to download the Earth...

Today we are excited to share an interview our Program Manager Taylor Ruffin did with young changemakers from Estes Park, Colorado. These young people are part of a multi-year effort at their school to build resilience to natural hazards in their community, and we can’t wait for you to hear their story. Enjoy! More about the students’ work: After years of evacuations due to more wildfires, Estes P...

We’re so excited to share these key experiences with you – these are the core of Environmental Action Civics.

Today we’re sharing an interview with Amelia Bernstein. Amelia went through the Earth Force Process as a student with one of our rockstar educators years ago and shares what that experience was like and how it changed her. She is now on our  board of directors  and attending college. We think you’ll really enjoy hearing her perspective about what makes youth-adult partnerships effective and the im...

Today, our program crew will be digging into just a few of the many research articles that back up our Environmental Action Civics approach and our goals for getting youth engaged in environmental decision-making in order to be active and engaged community members now and in the future. 

Today we will be providing you with a little insider access to our annual Educator Workshop! We were joined by two practiced Environmental Action Civics educators: Carmen and Asim. Their experience and insight really helped us craft this workshop to be meaningful for the participants. During today’s episode we will be hearing from the workshop participants themselves, an absolutely stellar group o...

In this episode, our Program Team shares the Environmental Action Civics Roadmap.  The Roadmap is a tool you can use to assess where you’re at in your EAC journey and the possibilities to delve deeper.  Download your copy  here !

Thanks so much to Emily Hertz from Denver Audubon for joining us to talk about Environmental Action Civics! She describes what it can look like in an environmental education organization (and how they’re experimenting with setting initial topic boundaries this year) – and the importance of relationships in doing this work.

Here at Earth Force, we are the home of  Environmental Action Civics  and we exist to increase youth participation in environmental decision making! In Environmental Action Civics, students share power with adults, they practice democratic decisionmaking and address local environmental problems using civics. Adults are right beside them igniting a new generation of decision makers. And new this ye...