The PA Center for Environmental Education now has available the August issue of the EE Connections newsletter covering a variety of topics of interest to the environmental education community. This issue includes:

General News: Job Opening at PCEE, Outdoor Task Force Findings Released, New Law Makes Funding Energy Use Easier, Plant Trees in PA with Help from Odwalla.DEP Accepting Applications for $500 Hybrid Vehicle Rebates, PA CleanWays Releases Nine More Illegal Dumpsite Surveys, PA Roads Cleaner Thanks to Adopt-A-Highway Group

K-12 News: PLT Releases New Secondary EE Module, Online Website Facilitates Taking Children Outside. Encyclopedia of Earth Climate Change Collection Available, High School Science Teachers Needed for Field Test

Higher Education: New Resource Available for State Colleges and Universities Watershed Symposium, Call for Abstracts Deadline Extended, Allegheny College Pilots Energy Efficiency Program, Successful EE Course Now Available to Universities

Professional Development: Watershed Literacy Held at Camp Kon-O-Kwee/Spencer, Lehigh Valley Zoo Hosts PA Songbirds Workshop, River Ecology Workshop Comes to Cook Forest, Stroud Water Research Center Presents PA Herps, Sustainability in the Classroom

Grants/Awards: PPL Offers Environmental Education Grants, EPA Seeking Nominations for Water Efficiency Leaders, Green Building Product Innovation Proposals Due

Contributions welcome! The Center receives news and information from a variety of sources across Pennsylvania and beyond. Center staff appreciates all of the organizations, agencies and individuals who provide EE services and share their relevant information.

If you would like to contribute to future issues of EE Connections, please submit your article before the 15th of the month. Articles should be of statewide interest and are subject to space availability. Send email to: info@pcee.org for more information.

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8/8/2008