Resource Links

Resource Links
Forest | Freshwater | Marine | Sustainable Living | Environmental Education

Forest Community

Forests Forever
http://www.forests-forever.com/

Library of Forestry, Wood and Wildlife links, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
http://www.umaine.edu/umext/forestry/

Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife - Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Listed by County

http://www.state.me.us/ifw/wildlife/wildliferehabilitators/
list_of_rehabilitators.htm

Pine Tree State Arboretum

www.pinetreestatearboretum.org

Project Learning Tree
http://www.plt.org/

Project Learning Tree, Maine TREE Foundation
http://www.mainetreefoundation.org/index.htm

Project Wild
http://www.projectwild.org/

Freshwater Community

Drinking Water and Ground Water Activities for
Youth K-12
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/

Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Project

http://www.mainevolunteerlakemonitors.org/

PEARL Source for Environmental Information for Maine
http://pearl.maine.edu/

Project Wet
http://www.projectwet.org/

Gardening and Schools

Gardening With Kids
http://www.gardening-with-kids.com/index.html

Kids Gardening
http://www.kidsgardening.com/

How to Do Things: For Teachers
http://www.howtodothings.com/education/c1253-for-teachers.html

Marine Community

Gulf of Maine Research Institute
http://www.gma.org/educate/default.asp

Maine Marine Resources Aquarium
http://www.maine.gov/dmr/rm/aquarium/index.html

Gulf of Maine Marine Education Association
http://www.gommea.org/

University of New Hampshire Marine Docent Program
http://www.unh.edu/marine-education/

Sustainable Living

Affluenza: PBS Program on the Epidemic of Overconsumption and Teachers Guide

http://www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza/

Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems.
http://www.biomimicry.net/

Bioneers, Visionary and Practical Solutions for Restoring the Earth
http://www.bioneers.org/

Center for Ecoliteracy
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/
The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living.

Center for Whole Communities
http://www.wholecommunities.org/

Earth Conservation Corps
http://www.ecc1.org/

Ecological Footprint
http://www.myfootprint.org/

Education for Sustainable Living, Environmental Respect, and Celebrating the Quality of Life- a program of University of Maine Cooperative Extension
http://www.umaine.edu/sustainability/

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Fostering Sustainable Behavior
http://www.cbsm.com/

Global Ecovillage Network
http://gen.ecovillage.org/

Ice Breaker: Name and other get to know each other games
http://www.ynpn.org/resources/icebreakers.htm

Maine Earth Institute
http://www.maineearth.org/de.html

Maine Energy Education Program MEEP

http://home.psouth.net/~meep/

Master Gardener Web site, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
http://www.umext.maine.edu/mgmaine/welcome.htm

New American Dream

http://www.newdream.org/

Redefining progress
http://www.redefiningprogress.org/

Sustainable Living Network
http://www.sustainableliving.org/

The Center For Non-Violent Communication

http://www.cnvc.org/

The Earth Charter

http://www.earthcharter.org/

The Edible Schoolyard
http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/homepage.html
The Edible Schoolyard, in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior Middle School, engages students in a one-acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom.

The Great Turning: The Shift From The Industrial Growth Society to a Life-Sustaining Civilization. Joanna Macy’s web site.

http://www.joannamacy.net/html/great.html

USDA for Kids
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/

Search Institute
http://www.search-institute.org/aboutsearch/
The Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. See especially the Institute’s widely recognized 40 developmental assets.

Waste Free Lunches at Home or School
http://www.wastefreelunches.org/

Environmental Education

Benefits of Outdoor Education
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-schools-guardianships-changing_minds.pdf

Center for Environmental Education Online
http://www.ceeonline.org/

Classroom Earth: The National Environmental Education & Training Foundation
http://www.classroomearth.org/

Cooperative Extension Supports Youth Environmental Stewardship
http://www.cesyes.net/

EcoKids is Earth Day Canada's Environmental Education Program for Youth
http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/index.cfm

Green Schools Program of the Antioch New England Graduate School
http://www.anei.org/pages/58_green_school_guidelines.cfm

Green Teacher, Education for Planet Earth
http://www.greenteacher.com/

Maine Environmental Education Association
http://www.meeassociation.org/

North American Association for Environmental Education: Environmental Education on the Internet, a resource designed to support students, teachers and professionals that support K-12 environmental education
http://eelink.net/pages/EE-Link+Introduction

Orion
http://www.oriononline.org/

Sharing Nature Foundation by Joseph Cornell
http://www.sharingnature.com/index.htm

Tanglewood 4-H Camp & Learning Center
http://www.umaine.edu/umext/Tanglewood4H/

Worldwatch Institute
http://www.worldwatch.org/