Discusses the use of life-cycle analysis by organizations such as Green Cross and Green Seal and by government agencies to determine the impact manufactured products have on the environment. (MDH)

Offers suggestions toward developing multicultural environmental education. Discusses framing multicultural environmental education, the relationship between environmental justice and environmental education, implications of the environmental justice movement for environmental education and its role in the formation of a multicultural…

Presents guidelines for conducting and reporting qualitative environmental education research developed during a 10-hour, 1-1/2 day workshop sponsored by the North American Commission on Environmental Education Research (NCEER) during the 1997 annual meeting of the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE). (Author/CCM)

The Center for Environmental Concerns in the Philippines links local and global concerns through progressive contextualization, a process of adjusting education to the local context. Reflection in the practice found that these attempts emphasized scale rather than holistic relationship and had a narrow conception of the global. (SK)

Addresses the issues involved in re-engineering the discourse of environmental education--and education more broadly--towards an overriding concern with sustainable development. These approaches assume certain epistemological positions with regard to the language and referent to meaning. Sketches out a possible typology of such positions and…

Assesses public perception of selected strategies for increasing participation in city recycling programs: increasing the level of knowledge about recycling, using effective channels to inform the community about recycling, increasing the convenience of recycling by placing recycling containers in accessible locations, and getting input from the…

Discusses a model that enables systematic input from external sources during the interpretive planning process. Results indicate that the Ecotourist Needs Assessment (ETNA) is a feasible way to inform the planning process and better meet the needs of ecotourists. Contains 24 references. (DDR)

Explores the extent to which current professional education literature is publishing material on environmental education in the school curriculum. Results indicate that readers will not readily find information on how to infuse environmental education into the curriculum and that there is considerably less environmental education material in…

Presents perspectives from members of the Environmental Education Advisory Council on why environmental education is a priority. Lists current priorities of the council and council members. (JRH)

Presents potential guidelines for conducting and reporting environmental education research using quantitative methods of inquiry that were developed during a 10-hour (1-1/2 day) workshop sponsored by the North American Commission on Environmental Education Research during the 1998 annual meeting of the North American Association for Environmental…

Reviews recent empirical studies of learners and learning in primary and secondary school environmental education. Focuses on the nature and quality of the evidence gathered by the work in this area. Identifies issues and challenges arising from this recent evidence on learners and learning for research users, researchers, and future reviewers of…

Presents a personal response to a set of critical commentaries on significant life experience research which formed a special issue of this journal and a symposium on the same subject at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) (2000). (Contains 29 references.) (YDS)

When students enter the author's classroom on the first day of school, they are greeted with live crabs scuttling around in large bins. The crabs are her way of grabbing students' attention and launching the unit on the Chesapeake Bay watershed. She chooses to start the year with this unit because, despite the fact that the Potomac River can be…

This article evaluates geography as an appropriate home for environmental education. First, it argues that many geographers have defined geography as a discipline with a major, if not primary, interest in human-environment interactions. Next, it reviews the recent statements by non-geographer, environmental scholars that, directly or indirectly,…

The amount of dissolved oxygen in the oceans in the mid-Proterozoic period has evolutionary implications since essential trace metals are redox sensitive. The findings suggest that there is global lack of oxygen in seawater.