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• How to Talk About Climate Change & Justice in New England

  • Start
    17 Feb 2021
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  • End
    26 Feb 2021
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  How to Talk About Climate Change & Justice in New England
  

  

  Date: April 6, 8, 13, 27 4:00-6:00 PM
  Hosted by: The Northeast Climate Change Education Collaborative
  Intended Audience: Classroom and Informal educators, or other professionals
  Cost: $120 per person, scholarships available

  The Northeast Climate Change Education Collaborative is offering a pilot virtual professional learning program this spring! Please consider joining us for: "How to Talk about Climate Change and Climate Justice in New England"

  This pilot program is for small teams of 'informal' educators working together; it will run through the month of April and will include synchronous group meeting times and asynchronous work for each team to advance their goals.

  To ensure effective participation and discussion we have limited the number of participants to 20 for this first pilot program. I hope you will consider participating and learning with us!
  

  Thanks to College of the Atlantic; Audubon Vermont; UVM Watershed Alliance & Lake Champlain SeaGrant; Hubbard Brook Research Foundation; Mass Audubon & Shelburne Farms for collaborating, planning and implementing this new offering!

  Click here to learn more or apply. Applications must be received by February 26th to let us know you are interested and we will notify all participants of their standing in early March. Contact Kerri McAllister with questions at kmcallister@shelburnefarms.org

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• Taking Nature Black

  • Start
    23 Feb 2021
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  • End
    27 Feb 2021
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    (EST)
  • Location
    Online

  Taking Nature Black Virtual Conference 

  Call and Response: Elevating our Stories, Naturally!

  February 23-27, 2021
  Hosted by: Audubon Naturalist Society
  Cost: $20-$75
  

  Taking Nature Black is an event, an opportunity, a time to pause for the cause.  It's a regional and national environmental lovefest. And it’s a Black healing, welcoming, organizing, celebrating, networking space. Our theme is Call and Response: Elevating our Stories, Naturally! 

  This year we're elevating our stories chautauqua-style, so be on the lookout for speakers, creators, innovators, scientists, educators, musicians, artists, and entertainers telling their stories about everything from climate change to environmental justice and environmental joy in highly creative ways.

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• Growing A Cultural Lens in School Gardens

  • When
    25 Feb 2021
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    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    Online

  Growing A Cultural Lens in School Gardens
  

  Hosted By: Vermont Education & Environment Network
  Date: February 25, 2021 at 4:00-5:00pm
  Cost: Free
  Intended Audience: Anyone interested in using gardens for education

  School gardens are a natural extension of the classroom and a common teaching space across schools in Vermont! Hear from educators who address a variety of cultural and curricular themes, topics, and standards while tending to and teaching in the garden with students of all ages! This month’s panelists bring expertise and lived experience in urban gardening, food justice in Vermont, and embracing cultural awareness through gardening and cooking. Come discuss how to apply your food justice lens and connect your garden to your curriculum, even if you are just starting out!

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• An Ecological Civilization: The Path We're On

  • When
    25 Feb 2021
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    4:00 PM (EST)
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    online

  An Ecological Civilization: The Path We're On
  

  Date: February 25 at 4:00 EST
  Hosted by: YES! Media
  Intended Audience: Anyone interested in the content
  Cost: Free
  

  The path toward an ecological civilization moves us from an uncivilized society based on selfish wealth accumulation to one that is community-oriented and life-affirming. You’re invited to join us for a virtual conversation on the ways communities are already working toward that goal—and how you can be a part of it.

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• RIEEA Annual Summit: Culturally Relevant Environmental Education

  • When
    27 Feb 2021
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    9:00 AM - 10:30 AM (EST)
  • Location
    Online

  Rhode Island Environmental Education Association Annual Summit

  Date: Saturday, February 27 9-10:30 AM
  Hosted by: RIEEA
  Intended Audience: Environmental Educators, or anyone interested in the content
  Cost: Sliding Scale
  
  Keynote Address by Brianna Amingwa: Planting Seeds of Change with Cultural Relevancy

  2020’s tumultuous year sparked a renewed energy around equity and inclusion, inspiring many educators to reexamine their own cultural lens and grow their efforts to engage diverse audiences.

  As in nature, even the smallest seeds can create a healthier and more diverse ecosystem. This keynote discussion will plant seeds of change to help educators adapt their practice to meet community needs, strengthen equity, and increase cultural competency skills. 

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• Pursuing Racial Equity: Be the Change We Want to See

  • When
    2 Mar 2021
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    online

  Pursuing Racial Equity: Be the Change We Want to See
  

  Date: March 2 1:00-4:00PM EST
  Hosted by: Great Schools Partnership
  Intended Audience: Educators
  Cost: $125

  Regardless of the demographics of your school community, true educational equity will never be achieved in the absence of racial equity. Racial equity can’t be achieved without a commitment to embracing anti-racist policies and practices. This is an ongoing journey that requires full engagement in a series of intertwined and compulsory actions such as ongoing self-reflection, acknowledging white supremacy, recognizing the complexities of the various levels of racism, and having crucial conversations with friends, family, and colleagues.

  In this session, participants will:   

  1. Identify strategies to combat racism in their homes, schools, organizations, and communities.  

  2. Build a clearer understanding of key concepts and vocabulary such as racial equity and the four forms of racism: structural, institutional, interpersonal, and internalized  

  3. Learn to talk about race constructively within their schools and communities, as well as amongst their friends, families, and colleagues 

  4. Increase their understanding of the history and legacy of race in American economic and policy development, as well as racial identity and its interaction with institutional culture.

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• Indigenous Ways of Knowing

  • When
    4 Mar 2021
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    2:00 PM (EST)
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    Online

  Indigenous Ways of Knowing

  Date: Thursday, March 4 at 2:00PM
  Hosted by: University of Maine
  Intended Audience: anyobe interested in the content
  Cost: Free
  
  Dr. Bonnie Newsom is an Indigenous archaeologist interested in the pre-contact lifeways of Maine’s Native peoples. Through her research, she seeks to humanize people in the past by exploring concepts of identity, style, social boundaries, and human agency. This talk will focus on Indigenous ways of knowing as it relates to climate change.

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• Virtual Program Sampler

  • When
    4 Mar 2021
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    4:00 PM (EST)
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    online

  Virtual Program Sampler
  

  Date: Thursday, March 4 at 4:00PM
  Hosted by: New Hampshire Environmental Educators
  Intended Audience: Classroom Teachers
  Cost: Free
  
  Bring the outside-in! Do you want to invite outdoor professionals into your classroom virtually this Spring, but don’t know who to reach out to? In this Virtual Program Sampler, hear from organizations around New Hampshire who are offering a variety of virtual programs from weather, to winter gardening, to wildlife. This is the perfect way to get an idea of what is being offered so you can bring it to your classroom or community. A few organizations joining us include Squam Lakes Natural Science Center, NH Audubon, Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, Squam Lakes Association, Tin Mountain Conservation Center, and Harris Center for Conservation Education.

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• Teaching Climate Consequences with CLEAN: Motivate & Insprire, Don't Despair

  • When
    4 Mar 2021
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    6:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    online

  Teaching Climate Consequences with CLEAN: Motivate & Insprire, Don't Despair

  Date: March 4 at 6:00 PM
  Hosted by: Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network
  Intended Audience: Classroom Teachers
  Cost: Free
  
  The consequences of climate change are all around us, unfortunately. How can we teach these topics without overwhelming our students or causing anxiety? In this webinar, climate communicator Karin Kirk will share strategies for building connections between cause and effect, showcasing solutions, and using local approaches to make science relevant and inspiring. All the teaching tools highlighted in this webinar are appropriate for online teaching. Presenter: Karin Kirk, Geologist and Science Writer.
  

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• The UC Berkeley Understanding Glocal Change Project and CLEAN

  • When
    9 Mar 2021
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    6:30 PM (EST)
  • Location
    online

  The UC Berkeley Understanding Glocal Change Project and CLEAN
  

  Date: Tuesday, March 9 @ 6:30 PM
  Hosted by: Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)
  Intended Audience: Classroom Teachers
  Cost: Free

  The Understanding Global Change (UGC) Project at the University of California Museum of Paleontology at UC Berkeley developed a suite of online and interactive learning materials that support educators and students to explore the Earth as an interconnected, dynamic system. The UGC resources, co-designed with classroom teachers and leaders in climate education, are integrated with research-based teaching practices that utilize modeling of phenomena to make learning visible, and support the investigation of local and global actions that reduce human impacts on global environments. In this webinar, you will learn about the UGC Project tools for teaching about climate and energy using CLEAN resources. Presenter: Jessica Bean, University of California Berkeley.

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• Massachusetts Environmental Education Society (MEES)

  • When
    10 Mar 2021
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    (EST)

  SAVE THE DATE: MEES Conference 2021 - March 10th

  Contact MEES info@massmees.org for any questions

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• Massachusetts Environmental Education Society Virtual Conference

  • Start
    10 Mar 2021
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  • End
    13 Mar 2021
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  • Location
    online

  Massachusetts Environmental Education Society Virtual Conference
  

  Date: March 10-13
  Hosted by: MEES
  Intended Audience: Environmental Educators or those interested in the content
  Cost: $35 and up
  

  This year, the 31st MEES Conference will be a four-day virtual event. During this event you will have access to over 30 workshops and several keynote speeches, the ability to connect with peers through networking events, and a chance to visit exhibit booths to speak with vendors at the virtual expo.
  

  Continuing in the great tradition of the MEES Conference, peer-led workshops will cover topics ranging from Best Practices in Environmental Education to Engaging Youth in Climate Change Advocacy. We know that the creative presenters drawn to MEES will provide engaging and interactive workshops.
  

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• Vermont Afterschool Equity & Racism Series: Racism and the Implications for All of Us

  • When
    10 Mar 2021
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EST)

   Racism and the Implications for All of Us

  March 10, 2021 10am-noon

  In this session, participants will locate themselves in the conversation about race and racism in the U.S., reflect on our own social positionality, and critically examine our impact on those we serve. Participants will gain an understanding of the impact of racial trauma on students of color and begin to envision what racial justice looks like in our programs and learning spaces
  

  Location: Online

  Cost: $25/session or $100/entire series regular rate; $15/session or $60/entire series for Vermont Afterschool members

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• What Animal Is It? Virtual Wildlife Tracking Tour

  • When
    11 Mar 2021
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EST)
  • Location
    online

  What Animal Is It? Virtual Wildlife Tracking Tour Through Winter Woods
  

  Date: March 11 1:00-2:00PM
  Hosted by: Vermont Land Trust
  Intended Audience: Anyone interested in the topic
  Cost: Free
  

  Winter is a busy time in the woods for our animal neighbors and trying to identify all those animal tracks in the snow is hard. Join us for a virtual wildlife tracking tour through Vermont’s woods. We will learn how knowing animal behaviors, identifying habitat, and recognizing the type of gait can help identify tracks in the snow. Learn how gathering clues about the surrounding habitat and how the animal moved thorough it can help you discover who is out in the woods with you when you are out hiking, skiing, or snowshoeing. For beginners and experienced trackers.
  

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• Virtual Joint Conference of Connecticut Conference on Natural Resources & Connecticut Outdoor & Environmental Education Association

  • When
    15 Mar 2021
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    9:00 AM - 3:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    online

  Virtual Joint Conference of Connecticut Conference on Natural Resources & Connecticut Outdoor & Environmental Education Association
  

  Date: March 15 9am-3:30PM
  Hosted by: CCNR & COEEA
  Intended Audience: Anyone interested in the content
  Cost:  Starts at $30
  
  This year’s conference theme is Creating a More Equitable and Inclusive Environmental Sector. The sentiment “many resources, one environment” reflects the conference vision that, while many of us focus our efforts on conservation of natural resources, Connecticut has but one environment, and we all benefit professionally and personally by collaborating and learning together.
  

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• Indigenous Science is Activism

  • When
    18 Mar 2021
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    2:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Online

  Indigenous Science is Activism

  Date: March 18 at 2:00
  Hosted by: University of Maine
  Intended Audience: 
  Cost: Free
  

  Sara Tenamoeata Kahanamoku is a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and Maʻohi (Tahitian) scientist from Haleʻiwa, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. Like many others in her family, she was raised in the ocean, and it is this relationship that drives her scholarship and activism. She is currently a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley (Huichin Ohlone), where her research focuses on the impacts of the climate crisis on California’s ocean ecosystems during the 19th and 20th centuries. Her applied work focuses on the pono (equitable, relational) co-production of climate-related research and policy.

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• Workshop: Personal Connection and Storytelling

  • Start
    23 Mar 2021
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  • End
    24 Mar 2021
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  • Location
    Online

  Talk Climate Institute
  Presented By: Climate Generation 

  Mark your calendars, and save the date for March 23–24, 2021! We’re excited to announce next year’s Talk Climate Institute, a completely virtual two-day workshop sharing new ways to talk about climate change that inspire confidence, ignite conversations, and mobilize action. You will develop and share your own climate story through writing, reflective listening, art activities. Registration details coming soon!

  
  

  
  

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• Traditional Abenaki Sugaring and Stories

  • When
    23 Mar 2021
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    7:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    online

  Traditional Abenaki Sugaring and Stories

  Date: March 23 7:00PM
  Hosted by: Vermont Land Trust
  Intended Audience: Anyone interested in the topic
  Cost: Free

  Call us biased, but we think the world's best maple syrup is made in Vermont. Using technology ranging from buckets to tubing, the top of a woodstove to a high-tech reverse osmosis machine, sugarmakers condense sap from the maple tree to "liquid gold". The Abenaki people, who lived on the land we now call Vermont for thousands of years, are an essential part of the sugaring story. They developed methods of tapping trees and using sap that they later taught to white colonists. Chief Don Stevens of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk - Abenaki Nation will share the maple syrup story and ancient Abenaki sugaring traditions. In a conversation between Chief Don and VLT forester and sugarmaker Caitlin Cusack, we'll explore the Abenaki relationship to the land and how the maple story is alive today in Abenaki-owned sugaring operations. 

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• Designing An Outdoor Classroom

  • When
    24 Mar 2021
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    4:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Online

  Designing An Outdoor Classroom

  Date: Wednesday, March 24 at 4pm
  Host: New Hampshire Environmental Educators
  Presenter: Marilyn Wyzga, Landscaping with Nature
  Intended Audience: 
  Cost: Free

  Your schoolyard, no matter how big or small, holds plenty of potential for authentic outdoor learning experiences. Adding a few essential features can dramatically transform the space to provide both habitat and a unique learning lab for students. Discover how to make the most of your school grounds as I walk you through designing, creating and establishing a schoolyard habitat. We’ll focus on one or two New Hampshire schools to demonstrate the process you can apply to your site.

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• Maine Environmental Education Assocation Annual Conference

  • Start
    7 Apr 2021
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    (EDT)
  • End
    8 Apr 2021
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  • Location
    online

  Maine Environmental Education Assocation Annual Conference
  

  Date: April 7-8
  Hosted by: MEEA
  Intended Audience:
  Cost: TBD
  
  Come together in community April 7-8 to share strategies and ideas for more effectively implementing outdoor and environmental education in schools and communities across the state. We are in a time of great change in our field and our work has never been more important for the health and wellness of all Mainers and our communities. Together we will explore and share innovations, new trends, resources and curricula ideas that will advance our work in the face of both the Covid-19 pandemic and the deep inequities in our society that the pandemic is exacerbating. The MEEA conference is our largest event of the year where folks who support environmental and/or outdoor education with Mainers of all ages can share best practices, explore new ideas, and build relationships for new collaborations.
  

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• Local Solutions to Climate Crises

  • When
    8 Apr 2021
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    2:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Online

  Local Solutions to Climate Crises
  

  Date:  April 8, 2021 2:00PM
  Hosted by: University of Maine
  Intended Audience: Anyone interested in the topic
  Cost: free
  

  Youth activists Ruby Mahoney and Ayano Ishimura, A Climate to Thrive on Mount Desert Island

  These two young local climate activists on Mount Desert Island will discuss their experiences working to expand solar capacity to Maine K-12 schools, and working with the non-profit A Climate to Thrive.
  
  Learn more about the youth presenters here. 
  
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• Safe, Happy, Healthy Outdoor Learning

  • When
    12 Apr 2021
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    4:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    online

  Safe, Happy, Healthy Outdoor Learning
  
  Date: Monday, April 12 at 4:00PM
  Host: New Hampshire Environmental Educator
  Intended Audience: Outdoor Educators
  Cost: Free

  These presenters have a wealth of experience to share about making outdoor learning safe, happy and healthy. During this break-out room presentation, you will rotate through topics of your interest and glean their advice and guidance for planning your spring and summer programs. Topics include: “How to give students parameters or helpful guidelines”; “outdoor in-person education in the time of COVID”; and “how to foster the emotional benefits from outdoor education with students.” You can stay in one room the whole time or visit each room.
  
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• Vermont Afterschool Equity & Racism Series: Examining Three Levels of Inequity & Disruption: Personal, Cultural & Systemic

  • When
    28 Apr 2021
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)

   Examining Three Levels of Inequity & Disruption: Personal, Cultural & Systemic

  April 28, 2021 10am-noon

  Goals of this workshop include deepening participants’ analysis of different levels of inequity, from personal to systemic; challenging deficit ideology and the myth of meritocracy; and identifying high-leverage action steps. 
  

  Location: Online

  Cost: $25/session or $100/entire series regular rate; $15/session or $60/entire series for Vermont Afterschool members

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• Vermont Afterschool Equity & Racism Series: Organizational Climate and the ‘Hidden Curriculum’

  • When
    9 Jun 2021
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)

   Organizational Climate and the ‘Hidden Curriculum’ 

  June 9, 2021 10am-noon

  This workshop will invite individuals to examine their own organizational climate, policy, language, visuals, accessibility, representation, inclusion, patterns of interaction, and unspoken values through an equity lens. 
  

  Location: Online

  Cost: $25/session or $100/entire series regular rate; $15/session or $60/entire series for Vermont Afterschool members

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• Summer Institute for Climate Change Education

  • Start
    28 Jul 2021
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  • End
    30 Jul 2021
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  • Location
    Online

  Summer Institute for Climate Change Education

  Date: July 28-30, 2021
  Hosted by: Climate Generation
  Intended Audience: Educators
  Cost: $250 Scholarships available. Apply now.

  Climate Generation and the Teach Climate Network are coming to your home this summer! Join a network of teachers from across the country for this three-day virtual conference to learn new tools, skills, and resources to teach climate change in any subject area! 

  Climate Generation’s 16th annual Summer Institute for Climate Change Education will be hosted in partnership  with The Wild Center’s Youth Climate Program and NOAA’s Climate Office.

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