Environmental Concerns

The Environmental Concerns Committee provides education employees with useful environmental lessons, ideas and resources; current information on indoor and outdoor environment issues and representation at professional meetings of environmental organizations. The committee collaborates with outside agencies and community programs to organize workshops, training sessions and events for NEOEA members and makes recommendations to NEOEA on environmental issues.

Our Green School Award honors schools within local affiliates that are leaders in environmental education. The winning school(s) will receive a cash award. Applications due by Friday, February 14, 2025.

Global warming:

• The American Geophysical Union
• The American Meteorological Society
• The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• The National Academies of Science
• The U.S. EPA
• The Weather Channel
• A time-line showing major events in the development of global warming theory

Useful sites:

• Beyond Pesticides
• National Pesticide Information Center
• The Story of Stuff
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• Download Article: Lead and Mercury and Our Students (46 KB)