New Hampshire Environmental Literacy

Environmental issues will present some of the most complex, challenging, and important issues of the next century. This spring and summer, the New Hampshire Environmental Educators will host community forums across the state to discuss environmental literacy.

A working group focused on an Environmental Literacy Plan for NH has formed including representation from Antioch New England, Appalachian Mountain Club, Department of Resources and Economic Development Division of Forest and Lands, New Hampshire Department of Education, New Hampshire Department of Environment Services, New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, New Hampshire Sierra Club, Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, Margret and H.A. Rey Center, Plymouth State University, and the United States Forest Service.

The plan would help qualify the state's K-12 public schools for federal environmental education funding, and help ensure that New Hampshire ’s students will graduate from high school as environmentally literate citizens who have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to tackle 21st-century environmental challenges.

If you are a parent, teacher, professional in natural resource based industries, school administrator, staff or student in higher education, or a home-schooling family, please come and share your ideas. We'd love for you to join us for this important conversation!

Five gatherings to discuss the plan and solicit community input will be held state wide. Please see the dates and locations below. If you have any questions about the upcoming community forums please contact Amy Yeakel at (603) 968-7194 x14 or Amy.Yeakel@nhnature.org. We hope you will join us!