HeyJaredField Chats: Environmental Action Civics Essentials
Are you seeking ways to engage and empower young people but you're not sure where to start? Every other week, our program team breaks down Environmental Action Civics - the research-based approach to build youth-adult partnerships, help young people be environmental…
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Episode 64: All About Youth Climate Summits with Cedar Barg at The Wild Center (opens the original)
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Krysten Dorfman and Taylor Ruffin welcome back Cedar Barg of The Wild Center to talk about the evolution of Climate Action Planning (CAP) resources and their collaboration with Earth Force. They explore how Earth Force tools—including community inventories, root cause analysis, and power mapping—have been integrated into Youth Climate Summits, how facilitators are adapting the process for different settings, and what happens when young people take on leadership roles themselves. The conversation
Episode 63: What 20 years of Environmental Applied Civics evaluation tells us (opens the original)
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In this episode of Field Chats , Alyssa McConkey and Vince Meldrum dig into what the data reveals about changes in educators, student confidence and skills, and young people’s ability to participate in local environmental decision-making. They also share a powerful story about fourth graders who helped their community identify a problem adults had overlooked—and sparked action to address it. 00:00 — Welcome to Field Chats 02:50 — What 20+ Years of Evaluation Data Reveals 05:50 — How Environmenta
Episode 62: Community Inventories: A Practical Guide to Environmental Applied Civics (opens the original)
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How can educators use community inventories to help students investigate local environmental issues? In this episode of Field Chats: Environmental Applied Civics Essentials , the Earth Force Program Team explores practical ways to use inventories as part of Environmental Applied Civics (EAC) and project-based learning. Learn how students can use data collection, surveys, interviews, maps, nature journaling, and appreciative inquiry to investigate their communities, identify environmental strengt
Episode 61: New Environmental Applied Civics Educator Guide: A Walkthrough! (opens the original)
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Explore Earth Force’s new Environmental Applied Civics (EAC) Educator Guide in this visual walkthrough. The guide is a comprehensive resource for educators who want to engage young people in authentic, community-based learning through youth-adult partnerships and environmental civic action. In this episode of Field Chats , we walk through the updated guide and highlight its new EAC roadmap, three essential experiences, four practitioner competencies, pacing guide, step-by-step resources, script
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