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25.01.2022 MEET THE SPEAKERS Marianne E Krasny, a professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Director of the Civic Ecology Lab at Cornell University, is one of o...ur keynote speakers for the 2020 virtual ‘Changing Tides’ conference. She leads efforts to teach environmental and climate education Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for international audiences, and to facilitate online learning and resource sharing communities for over 10,000 environmental activists and educators globally. Dr Krasny conducts research with members of the Civic Ecology Lab to answer questions about how to scale up the impacts of civic ecology practices such as community gardening, litter clean ups and volunteer oyster restoration, and about how online learning can lead to more effective environmental education and stewardship practices and climate actions. She is currently working on a book about scaling up individual climate action, such as plant-rich diets, through social networks and activism. Her other books includes: Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up (with K Tidball) Urban Environmental Education Review (with A Russ) Communicating Climate Change: A Guide for Educators (with A Armstrong and J Schuldt) Grassroots to Global: Broader Impacts of Civic Ecology Advancing Environmental Education Practice https://dnr.cals.cornell.edu/people/marianne-krasny/ #aaee2020changingtides

24.01.2022 What IS Ocean Literacy? SeaWeek Australia 2020 by @AustralianAssociationForEnvironmentalEducationInc , in collaboration with the Australian Marine Education Network members, is a week-long celebration and deep dive into the global ocean and 'ocean literacy'. Ocean literacy is the understanding of the ocean's influence on you, and your influence on the ocean, but that is a very broad definition. 'Ocean literacy' as a subject is broken up into 7 key principles. Each principle... is a vital component of information and understanding that we need to be ocean literate. These principles are what make up ocean literacy, and content best suited to students within the range of K to 12 have been identified. Library of resources: https://education.ocean.org/oceanlitlib/ Portal for teachers: https://oceanliteracy.unesco.org/resour/audience/educators/ In 2020 Sea Week Australia is devoting a week to developing ocean literacy principle #5: "The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems" Do you have a photo to share that shows what this principle means to you? More on principle # 5 https://youtu.be/0Xf1fJYy-LE For students! Grade 10-12, age 15-18: https://education.ocean.org/oceanlitsec Grade 7-9, age 12-14: https://education.ocean.org/oceanlitmid/ Grade 3-6, age 7-11: https://education.ocean.org/oceanlitelem/

23.01.2022 One day to go! Program and register: https://aaeeconference.org.au/prog/2020-virtual-conference/

23.01.2022 Interesting new research about participation in nature stewardship in Australia by UNSW Science Are you an "uber steward"? Recent UNSW Science study of environmental stewardship found that 12% of people stood out in their actions to care for their local place. This included restoration such as clean-ups, educating others, explaining the rules, using resources sustainably, preserving nature, advocating and monitoring. Read more about the research here https://www.sciencedirect.com//artic/pii/S0006320720307722

21.01.2022 Thank you SeaWeek Australia. LOVED last year's calendar!!

18.01.2022 Time to celebrate the Spring Equinox! Today the sun will cross the equator to enter the sky's Southern Hemisphere. When this happens, the hours of daylight and ...the hours of darkness are about equal almost everywhere on Earth. For us it means the days are only going to get longer and warmer and the nights, shorter. The fact that flowers are bursting into bloom is no coincidence, as many spring-flowering plants rely on the shortening night length to induce flowering. Here are just a few you can see in flower at the Gardens at the moment. #ozplants #spring #flowers #equinox sbrogers

18.01.2022 Meet the speakers - this is going to be amazing!

18.01.2022 This event will be livestreamed on School Strike 4 Climate Australia's Facebook and YouTube-#FundOurFutureNotGas! Learn more about the day of action here: ss4c.info/sept25

18.01.2022 Early years professional educators - Have you got good support to develop and 'do' environmental and sustainability education in your service? Would joining a group help?

17.01.2022 How true in 2020! Too much screen time!

17.01.2022 MEET THE SPEAKERS As Southern Brown Bandicoot Outreach Officer at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Charlotte Fletcher is responsible for designing and implementi...ng community engagement initiatives centred around creating a bandicoot friendly community. This work aims to help build connection to nature in residents of south east Melbourne, and raise awareness about the existence of endangered bandicoots in residential areas and appropriate conservation actions. With a BSc (Hons) in ecology from the University of Sydney and M Sci Comm (Outreach) from the Australian National University, Charlotte has previously developed and/or delivered education and family programs at USyd, ANU, the Australian National Maritime Museum, Melbourne Museum and Questacon. Her work at RBGV sits at the exciting intersection of programming, citizen science and behaviour change for conservation. Catch Charlotte in the third session of the day at our AAEE2020 Online Conference with a co-authored presentation 'Getting on board the bandi-wagon - insights from two citizen science urban conservation programs'. rbg.vic.gov.au/southern-brown-bandicoot #aaee2020changtingtides

16.01.2022 VERY EXCITING SNIPE NEWS! This is the second year that this snipe - ELF70 - has returned to Jerrabomberra Wetlands! In addition, ELF58 was also seen yesterday a...nd was banded during our recent satellite tagging in Jan of this year. this means both birds have been to Japan/Russia and back since we last saw them! Talking to one of the Latham's Snipe Project Managers Dr Birgita Hansen; "this indicates the huge value in (a) the snipe banding and flagging program at jerra, and (b) the importance of resighting efforts by local birdos and photographers." We encourage you all to get out there with your binoculars and big cameras and send in any photos you take to us either via Facebook or to [email protected]. These photos help inform the ongoing research and are very important for our researchers to have. Jerrabomberra Wetlands is the only site in Australia where this information exists or has ever existed. To follow all the snipe project news head to https://lathamssnipeproject.wordpress.com Image by Allen Bills

16.01.2022 What does Civic Ecology and 'resilience' mean to you as an educator? Come and hear all about this fascinating area from Civic Ecology in education champion Marianne Krasny who will be opening the 2020 AAEE Biennial Conference - register today! https://aaeeconference.org.au/2020-virtual-conference-regi/ https://dnr.cals.cornell.edu/people/marianne-krasny/

14.01.2022 One day to go! Wednesday 30 September 10.45 - 3.15 AEST Program: https://aaeeconference.org.au/prog/2020-virtual-conference/... Know someone who works with an NGO or NFP - they might like to know they can actually register with a complimentary member discount to the AAEE National conference!

14.01.2022 STANSW Green Chemistry Conference - Closing Plenary

13.01.2022 If you love the Ocean then you might like to dive into the SeaWeek Australia special edition of AAEE OzEEnews: http://www.aaee.org.au//upl/2020/09/ozeeNews-Sept-2020.pdf

13.01.2022 If you’re interested in our pollinators, listen to AAEE member and Coordinater ACT for Bees, Julie Armstrong talk (10 mins).

13.01.2022 COMIC NOW AVAILABLE We teamed up with The Blue Biologist to bring you this special edition comic for National SeaWeek. Made by two marine biologists and commu...nicators, the comic follows the Blue Biologist as she's challenged by An Ocean of Plastic. Have a read below or visit our website for the French version, www.plasticoceans.org.au//15/the-blue-biologist-x-poa-comic There's still time to register for our Meet our Marine Mates webinar this afternoon, go to www.eventbrite.com.au/e/meet-our-marine-mates-seaweek-2020-

12.01.2022 1 hour Virtual Tours of Sydney's Rocky Reefs! SeaWeek Australia special event - Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 2 PM AEST ($75 each). "My Journey Beneath the Waves: Diving Sydney’s Rocky Reefs" takes you and your students on an exploration of the marine environment. The temperate waters around Sydney are home to a variety of habitats including kelp beds and sponge gardens. These are wonderful place to dive and discover the diversity of animals that live there. Take a journey be...neath the waves to explore this wonderful world. Learn about some of these incredible animals, their adaptions and habitats. Marine Life program content: Classification: Living Things and Invertebrates and Vertebrates Identification: Common groups of Marine animals, Habitats and Comparing features Hands on investigation: Field works practices, Applying geographical tools and Observation Sustainability: Protecting habitats and Saving species Interactive Environmental Science activities direct to your home through a Virtual Excursion.

12.01.2022 Let's go to the UC Environmental Science Society movie night!

12.01.2022 Thanks Larry for sharing, important plants to Australians for thousands of years

12.01.2022 On 25 November our humble AAEE ACT chapter will have its AGM, followed by a relaxed in-house Indigenous Plant Use walk in the gorgeous @ANBG with expert ranger Viv Pearce OAM ... and some surprise guests. More here bit.ly/358yhGf RSVP a must to [email protected] - please note the date change (from 11 Nov).

11.01.2022 Snakes and lizards alive, there are tickets still available for tomorrow's annual Summer Safety Sunday in the valley ... Thanks to Woden Community Service ACT Rural Fire Service Molonglo Brigade Molonglo Bible Church @ACTSnakeRemovals #LiveBand #BurnTable #Pythons #Dragons (sort of) #FireTruck #AdviceAboutPreparingYourHomeandGardenAgainstFirebreathingDragons ... ... #DeliciousBBQ #CoffeeVan See more

11.01.2022 A clever way to increase biodiversity in cities

10.01.2022 Think you know the sea? Think again.

09.01.2022 Hey hey hey - only 2 weeks to go till the AAEE Biennial National Conference - one day and fully online. Fellow NGOs and Not-For-Profit groups can register for members price!! Or renew your AAEE membership or join as a new member and get the member discount ... as well as joining and supporting the most awesome professional association. Go here to renew / join: http://www.aaee.org.au/

08.01.2022 Just in time for Australian Pollinator Week! Earlier this month, the first female Metallic Green Carpenter Bees this spring were spotted on the Sennas at the e...dge of the Sydney Region Garden. Metallic Green Carpenter Bees, Xylocopa aerata, were originally thought to be extinct in this area until their first sighting at the Gardens in 2017. Amazingly, the Australian National Botanic Gardens is home to the only known population of these bees in inland southern Australia. Their common name comes from the habit of excavating their nests in soft wood with their strong mandibles, although the Australian species commonly use soft, pithy wood found in plants like Banksia and Xanthorrhoea stems. Little else is known about their ecological requirements, but experts will be searching for nesting sites in suitable stems of different trees and shrubs in the Gardens throughout this summer. Australia is home to over 2,000 native bees that play an essential role in the pollination of native plant species as well as in crop pollination. Australian Pollinator Week acknowledges Australia's important and unique insect pollinators. Tim Leach Can you spot the difference? The female Metallic Green Carpenter Bee has a shiny metallic blue green body with relatively little surface fur. The males of this species looks quite different with yellow fur on its thorax.

07.01.2022 Youth is leading the way!

07.01.2022 Fun Friday vote for ACT Fossil Emblem! at https://surveyhero.com/c/ACTfossilemblem

04.01.2022 Must do - Nov 17 - Facilitated by the brilliant Brad Moggridge Thank you Threatened Species Recovery Hub

04.01.2022 MEET THE SPEAKERS Briony Towers is a Research Fellow in the RMIT Centre for Urban Research. Her research interests include child-centred disaster risk reduction... (CCDRR), disaster risk reduction education (DRRE), school emergency management and climate change adaptation in the education sector. Briony’s multi-disciplinary approach to research is grounded in socio-cultural theories of human development and informed by theory and practice in child participation, critical pedagogy, place-based education and community-based disaster risk reduction. Her PhD in socio-cultural psychology at University of Tasmania involved an in-depth qualitative investigation of how children living in bushfire prone areas of south eastern Australia understand and manage bushfire risk. She has since conducted research on CCDRR and DRRE for emergency management agencies around Australia, including the NSW Rural Fire Service, NSW Fire and Rescue, the WA Department of Fire and Emergency Services and the Victorian Country Fire Authority. She has also conducted research on CCDRR for Plan International and Save the Children in Indonesia and the Philippines. For her current research project, funded by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, she is collaborating with children, youth, educators and emergency management agencies to develop effective and sustainable models of school-based DRRE for the Australian context. See Briony in the fourth session of the AAEE2020 Online Conference presenting 'Disaster Risk Reduction Education: Pathways toward a critical pedagogy of place.' https://www.rmit.edu.au//staff-contacts/academic-staff/t/t #aaee2020changingtides

03.01.2022 Well done to those who work tirelessly to protect our environment and world.

02.01.2022 Some great reading!

02.01.2022 Some interesting speakers!

02.01.2022 Congratulations

01.01.2022 How good ACT! Congratulations Light House architecture and science & Jenny Edwards!

01.01.2022 Nice SeaWeek Australia activity - have a go at designing a new mascot for friends at Plastic Oceans Australasia - great prize to be won too!