Environmental Education Directory
Looking for an organization, program, or resource to help get your students, family, or colleagues engaged in environmental learning? RIEEA has compiled a comprehensive, searchable list of opportunities throughout the state and online that offer resources for educators, families, and more.
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Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center
This environmental education center in Mystic, CT, offers year-round programs for all ages. With two locations connected by a greenway, the outdoor sanctuary encompasses 300 acres and 10 miles of trails. DPNC’s main campus features natural history exhibits and live birds of prey. The Coogan Farm offers a visitor center, Giving Garden, and meeting and classroom space.
Earth Care Farm
Earth Care Farm is tucked in the woods of Charlestown, RI, and boasts abundant fields, Black Angus cattle, award-winning garlic, and mountains of beautiful compost. In 1977, Michael Merner had an epiphany while standing in the home garden on his small farm that living soil is the foundation of our well being and began making compost soon after that realization. Forty years later, Mike and his wife still live and advise on the farm that their daughter, Jayne Merner Senecal, manages (with lots of help from the family and dedicated staff). The Farm sells bulk and bagged compost products, offers pick-your-own crops, hosts tours, field trips, and family events.
East Bay Educational Collaborative
The EBEC is an educational learning community of eight school districts located on the east side of Narragansett Bay. EBEC’s mission is to share, coordinate, and combine resources of the member districts to help develop world-class educators and schools. This includes providing high quality science and math instructional materials and teacher professional development for grades PK-8, and federally-funded curricula for physics, chemistry, and environmental studies for high schools. Their programs emphasize hands-on learning, active investigation, and teacher-vetted lessons which increase student engagement, achievement, and interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District
ERICD’s vision is to promote and improve long-lasting and environmentally-friendly practices that protect natural resources such as soil, water, and air through outreach, education, direct support, and financial assistance. ERICD works with a variety of people and groups including farmers, landowners, cities, towns, schools, and others in the community.
Eating with the Ecosystem
By fusing together the ecological knowledge of marine scientists and commercial fishermen, the creativity of the region’s most innovative chefs, the know-how of seafood businesses, and the enthusiasm of local seafood lovers, Eating with the Ecosystem advances a New England seafood system that supports the region’s marine ecosystems and the people who depend on them.
eBird
eBird, the world’s largest birding community, is an app designed to help people keep track of the birds they see, share their own sightings, explore bird sightings around the world, and contribute to science and conservation. Users can manage lists, photos, and audio recordings; see real-time maps of species distribution; and get alerts when species have been seen in their area.
eButterfly
From the rarest butterflies to the most common, your sightings contribute to conservation decisions, scientific knowledge, education, and more. Help scientists understand when and where butterflies occur. All you have to do is watch and report your butterfly sightings.
ecoRI News
ecoRI News is dedicated to reporting on environmental and social justice issues in southern New England. Through their reporting, they create a more informed public and provide individuals with the information they need to be better stewards of their environment. They are a professionally staffed, nonprofit, web-based news agency with a robust public service and outreach component. ecoRI News focuses on educating readers about the causes, consequences, and solutions to environmental and social justice issues that impact Rhode Island and Massachusetts. They accomplish their mission in separate but linked ways: investigative reporting, community journalism, educational programs, public outreach, green consulting, and compostable food-scrap collection.
Environment Council of Rhode Island
The Environment Council of Rhode Island is a coalition of organizations and individuals whose mission is to serve as an effective voice for developing and advocating policies and laws that protect and enhance Rhode Island’s environment.
EvanLEE Organics
EvanLEE Organics is the New England distributor for a patented Super Grow System which allows schools and organizations to grow nutritious food year round. EvanLEE Organics teaches students how to garden and grow their own food with their own two hands.
