Environment
This broad topic includes many important causes among service and volunteer programs, including conservation, climate change, pollution or other health hazards, recycling, water quality, gardening, and endangered species/habitats. Following are some of our most relevant resources in this topic area.
- Service-Learning and the Environment: Selected Resources
- Northwest Service Academy Field Team Handbook, from the EnCorps Collection
- Logic Models for Corporation Environmental Programs
- AmeriCorps Environment Instruments
- Senior Corps Environmental Instruments
- Learn and Serve America Environment Instruments
Online Course
Effective Practices
- Implementing environmental service-learning with youth
- Holding a poetry contest to educate youth about watershed ecology
- Starting a homeless garden project
- Cleaning up a creek bed for Earth Day
Lending Library
- Power Shift: Energy and Sustainability
- Build Green
- Get Out!: 150 Easy Ways for Kids and Grown-Ups to Get Into Nature and Build a Greener Future
- Environmental Ethics: Examining Your Connection to the Environment and Your Community
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