Exhibit at NAAEE 2026 to connect with environmental educators, researchers, nonprofit leaders, and changemakers! Exhibit booths include a full conference registration, listing in the conference app, and opportunities to engage with attendees. There are other low-cost options available for opening night: the Nonprofit Share Fair and Author's Corner! Space is limited, so reserve your spot today.

Thursday, August 6, 3:00–4:00 PM ET
How can stronger connections to place help create healthier communities and a more sustainable future? Join Matt Biggar, Ph.D., for an eeWEBINAR exploring ideas from his new book, Connected to Place, and discover how place-based education and systems thinking can inspire meaningful environmental and social change. Register today and be part of the conversation.

Tuesday, August 11, 10:00–11:00 AM ET 
Discover how educators and community leaders across Africa are using environmental education to advance circular economy solutions that reduce waste, strengthen communities, and create new opportunities. Hear practical examples and inspiring stories from Ledama Masidza, Hobson Agyapong, and Linda Godfrey during this GEEP Africa webinar. Register now to learn how these ideas can inform your own work.

Explore the latest recommended resources added to Recycling PRO Picks, featuring high-quality, classroom-tested resources that make recycling and waste reduction engaging and actionable. New selections include standards-aligned lessons, hands-on waste diversion activities, and practical tools that help students connect learning with real-world environmental action. Check out the newest picks and discover even more resources for educators and communities.

NAAEE is an official partner of the One Million Kids Outdoors (1MKO) Initiative! 1MKO is a national push to get one million kids outdoors in order to ensure that kids continue to have opportunities to benefit from time in nature. Collectively, we are committed to ensuring one million kids have meaningful outdoor experiences by June 30, 2027.

Tune in to the latest episode of The World We Want podcast, co-produced by NAAEE and GLOBIO. John Muir Laws—known to many as Jack—has inspired educators, students, scientists, artists, and lifelong learners to slow down and engage more deeply with the living communities around them. Jack discusses nature journaling as a tool for learning and discovery, the relationship between art and science, and environmental education through direct experience.

Inspired by the conversation? Join Jack and others in person at the 2026 NAAEE Annual Conference for a workshop on teaching nature journaling—just one of many pre-conference workshops to choose from.

Lalitha Murali, a teacher for Wisconsin's Glendale River-Hills School District and 2025 CEE-Change Fellow, reflects on her experience at the CEE-Change Leadership Institute. Following her time there, Lalitha worked to add a civic leadership layer to her school's STEAM Program.

Over the past five decades, children have lost much of the freedom to roam and build their own worlds. This blog asks what that decline in independent mobility might mean for children's mental well-being, weaving research with personal memories of developing a lasting sense of place.