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Educators share how they could use creative tools and activities to help their students feel prepared to take climate action at EarthGen's Climate Grief & Creative Expression STEM Seminar.

EarthGen’s Climate Grief and Creative Expression Uses Art to Support Climate Action

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“Teaching climate change is very emotional, and helping students embrace those emotions is vital,” shared a teacher attending EarthGen’s newest training, Climate Grief and Creative Expression. This training is designed to equip teachers with skills to address their own climate grief and to support students in the classroom with social emotional learning that will help them manage feelings that can develop when learning about climate change.

Nature protects us as long as we protect nature

EarthGen Expands Climate Justice League Statewide

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Responding to the growing demand for climate justice trainings, EarthGen collaborated with Stacy Meyer, Regional Science Coordinator at ESD 112, to develop three new Climate Justice League cohorts across the state. Nearly 100 teachers joined these new cohorts in fall 2021.

PCC's Bagged Apple program

A Conversation with EarthGen – PCC Community Market’s Sound Consumer Article

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Sound Consumer contributor Tara Austen Weaver recently visited a program supported by EarthGen, which emphasizes youth-centered, collective solutions for a healthy planet. At PCC, 100% of proceeds from our “Farm-to-School” bagged Fuji apples supports EarthGen and other local organizations focused on food systems education.

Tukwila School District students monitored the air quality on their campus as part of EarthGen's Breathing Easier program this summer.

Students’ Curiosity Fueled by Summer Learning

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Most kids don’t equate summer school with summer fun. But thanks to EarthGen’s environmental learning programs, summer school was a highlight of the summer for students at a dozen schools […]

The EarthGen team joined members of the Colville Tribes on the Okanogan River to learn about the relationship between salmon, tribes, and watersheds.

Tribes and Teachers Codevelop New EarthGen Science Unit

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This summer, EarthGen’s program staff observed the Colville Tribes’ fishing practices on the Okanogan River as part of an educational partnership with the Upper Columbia United Tribes (UCUT). Staff members […]