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Office of Environmental Education
All of North Carolina's EE Resources in One
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Celebrate NC Environmental Education Month 2006! |
One day is not enough.
One week is not enough.
In North Carolina we celebrate environmental education for an entire month! Help us celebrate by attending one of the following events,
or by having us promote your own!
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National EE Week and Earth Day 2006
have past, but there are still many celebrations and events this weekend!
Psst...Do you have any great EE Week Photos?
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Enter them in the
NEETF and Canon U.S.A. National Environmental Education Week Photo Contest--Entries Taken Until May 5th!
The National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF) and Canon U.S.A. Inc., announce a national photo contest focusing on National Environmental Education (EE) Week, April 16 - 22, 2006.
National EE Week is a week of "Educational Preparation" for Earth Day 2006. It will capitalize on both educator and student enthusiasm for Earth Day and help educators focus on increasing the number of hours applied to environmental education in the classroom. It will also help to demonstrate for teachers, first-hand, the high educational value and professionalism that has emerged in EE over the past two decades.
The photos will showcase the important environmental education work that educators across the country are doing with their students during National EE Week. This contest will help highlight National EE Week, the importance and benefits of environmental education, and the good work that America's teachers are doing for school children nationwide on a daily basis.
Contest Rules:
The photo contest is open to classroom teachers and youth group leaders who reach children in grades PreK-12th. One winner from each of four categories will receive a Canon digital camera digital donated by Canon U.S.A., Inc.
1. Prize Categories:
Elementary: PreK - 2 
Elementary: 3rd - 5th
Middle/Jr. High: 6th - 8th
High School: 9th - 12th
See the www.eeweek.org Web site for complete contest details.
NC teacher Kay McLeod from North Bumcombe HS was last year's 9-12 winner! Let's have some more NC winners this year!
(2005 Photo Gallery) |
Check out the Office of Environmental Education's regular Calendar page for an updated list of environmental education workshops and activities. There are even more than usual listed due to EE Week and Earth Day.
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The NC Division of Parks and Recreation has hundreds of programs available in April at its twenty-nine State Parks and four Recreation Areas
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North Carolinians can celebrate EE Week and Earth Day all month by exploring and learning about North Carolina's natural and cultural diversity at one of our many State Parks, Recreation Areas, and natural areas. For a calendar of State Park workshops, events, classes and more, go to the Division's searchable Park Events Page.
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WEATHERSPOON ART MUSEUM in Greensboro Presents
"UNEASY NATURE" Program Series
 The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, continues its public program series for Uneasy Nature.
Ongoing until May 28
There is no doubt that the world is changing around us at an ever-escalating rate. Medical advances, fueled today by genetic research; technological advances that astoundingly have altered the time and ways in which we communicate; radar equipment that increasingly is able to pinpoint the eye of the storm-all of these relatively recent accomplishments are to be lauded. Yet, many share the feeling that the tail may soon indeed be wagging the dog.
We are uneasy: uneasy about the political, religious or other constituencies that may influence future investments in biotechnology; uneasy about the possibility of being “engineered” by medicine; and certainly uneasy about the fact that Mother Nature seems to be warning us about our continued affronts to her. We could say that the strange new world is already upon us, but perhaps we're not paying close enough attention to what is next.
The Weatherspoon Art Museum is excited to present this exhibition, Uneasy Nature, and to explore with our visitors some of the many pressing questions that it poses. Thinking ahead of the curve, the artists included offer provocative, engaging, often stunningly beautiful work that addresses some of the concerns being raised about our bio-techno world.
Today our idealistic concepts of nature are proving to be archaic, and we are re-awakening to a new version of nature that is of mythic character. The works in Uneasy Nature manifest this uncomfortable view of a nature strangely altered through cross-pollination with culture and technology.
Uneasy Nature brings together sculpture, drawing, photography and digital animation by six internationally recognized artists who incorporate mythology and narrative to reflect on the evolving perception of nature in contemporary culture. Artists include: Lee Bul (Korea), Bryan Crockett (US), Roxy Paine (US), Patricia Piccinini (Australia), Alyson Shotz (US) and Jennifer Steinkamp (US).
Uneasy Nature is organized by Weatherspoon Art Museum curator of exhibitions,
Xandra Eden. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with full color images
of the work in the exhibition, artists' biographies, and essays by Eden and British
cultural historian, critic and novelist Marina Warner (see below).
*Related Uneasy Nature Events at the Weatherspoon Art Museum:
Directions and details at: http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu/
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 National Wildlife Week is April 22nd-30th
This is a great opportunity to get outside and explore your community. The National Wildlife Federation is celebrating National Wildlife Week through three different opportunities for you, your family and neighbors to be outside and connect with nature.
Photo by Eli Strull Courtesy of the Western NC Nature Center
They need your to help promote and get your community active for National Wildlife Week. Select one or more of the following days to coordinate an event or get a group of people to learn more about wildlife in your community. It can be as simple as reading a book to a child or taking a friend on a wildlife walk. Please let the NC Wildlife Federation know about any activity(s) that you will be doing. Email ncwf_charlotte "at" mindspring.com or call (704) 332-5696. NCWF will highlight them on their Web site and help you get the word out! Be sure to include: Your Name, type of activity, location of activity, date and description.
National Wildlife Week has three opportunities for fun events. Visit http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlifeweek/ for more information and project ideas.
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The Second Annual Museum Park Festival Celebrating Art and Ecology
NC Museum of Art in Raleigh
Saturday, April 29, 2006
(Rain date: Sunday, April 30)
11 a.m.–3 p.m.
FREE
Other Park Programs in April:
(See http://ncartmuseum.org/calendar.shtml for details)
Annual Park Festival, 4/29, 11-3
Park Storytime: Visit the Pond, 5/9, 11AM
Birds for Families, 5/13 10AM
See this link for more details--the schedule below is just a sampling of many drop-in activities available on the 29th. http://ncartmuseum.org/events/festivals.shtml
Celebrate the opening of the Prairie Trail and two new works of outdoor art in your Museum Park at a family festival featuring puppets, music, dance, children’s activities, and more.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
9 a.m.—Run for the Arts 5K
Registration:$10 Contemporaries, $15 All others; $20 Day of the race
Advance registration: Museum Box Office, (919) 715-5923
Kick off the festival with this 5K fun run held by the NCMA Contemporaries. Enjoy a run through the Park while being inspired by the art and landscape. Proceeds from registration fees will support NCMA children’s programs.
11:45 a.m.—Parade with the Paperhand Puppets
Join the Paperhand Puppet Intervention in a parade to carry a named larger-than-life dragon named Rhea down the House Creek Greenway Trail. People of all ages: We need your help! Meet at the Blue Ridge Road parking area to participate.
12 noon—Announcements and Dedication
Join us in thanking the festival participants and members of our community who have graciously given their time and resources to help develop the Museum Park trails and to make the festival possible.
12:15–2:15 p.m.—Take a Walk!
Start off at the new Prairie Trail and discover special performances for the whole family, including the aerial dance company Floetic, eclectic country musicians Hooverville, the Europa Jazz Quartet, and Jimmy Magoo. And be on the lookout for the Paperhand Puppets.
2:30 p.m.—Morphos
Gather at the Patrick Dougherty sculpture Trail Heads to watch this performance of puppetry, music, and dance by the Paperhand Puppet Intervention. |
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 The 10th annual Neuse River Festival will be held on April 29 and will include a river race, music, food, and more to follow at Anderson Point Park on the Neuse River in Raleigh. The citizen-style downriver canoe and kayak race is appropriate for experienced paddlers as well as those with limited river paddling experience. Post race activities will include an awards ceremony, live music, a prize giveaway, paddlers olympics, riverside nature studies, frisbee golf, and other activities.
Event Brochure and Web Page
It is the goal of Raleigh Parks and Recreation to incorporate a variety of environmental awareness organizations and provide an enhanced look into specific environmental issues that affect our surrounding community.
Amber Toy
Adventure Programs
Raleigh Parks and Recreation
Amber.Toy "at" ci.raleigh.nc.us
919-831-6855
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Earth Day Charlotte!
All across the world, people come together to celebrate the environment on Earth Day and have been since 1973.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
10am to 4pm
Marshall Park
Rain or Shine, it will be a day packed full of learning, music, games and fun!
Click Here for a schedule of Earth Day events! Volunteer Opportunities available as well.
For more information, email earthdaycharlotte "at" hotmail.com or call 704-336-3631.
Complete details about Earth Day Charlotte are at the Stormwater Services Web site.
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