News Center – Environmental Education

By Alison McCoy, Environmental Education AmeriCorps

Within the past month, I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to become one of Rural Action’s youngest ... Read More

Pollinator gardens are a buzzing splash of color during the summer months. But as fall sets in, things can look a bit … well, weedy.

So ... Read More

By Joe Brehm, Environmental Education Director

Though ours is one of the most benign natural regions in the world – few venomous creatures, mild climate, etc. ... Read More

Photo by Jim Harper, CC BY-SA 2.5

This Field Note is by Hazel Escobedo, AmeriCorps Member, Environmental Education

I wandered around the fifth-grade classroom, ... Read More

This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director

“But it had left something with him; as long as the hummingbird ... Read More

Alison McCoy is sitting in Athens County Public Libraries’ Glouster branch on a scorching day, wincing at the memory of cross-country practice that morning. ... Read More

This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director

The cycles of warm rain and sunshine stimulate serious summer fecundity in ... Read More

This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director.

Fighting through an understory thick with invasive multiflora rose and the friendlier ... Read More

This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director.

Four to five months from now, if you are lucky, you may ... Read More

(With this entry, Rural Action’s Environmental Education team launches Field Notes, an occasional series that takes readers into local forests to learn about our natural ... Read More