Author: Kristen Poppleton, Senior Director of Programs
100% Passed…Now What?
On Tuesday, February 7, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed into law a bill that requires 100% carbo...
Climate Voices
Your voice is needed to support climate change education
The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) draft was recently released for public comment.
We’...
Climate Voices
Introducing Climate Generation’s COP27 Delegation
Climate Generation is excited to introduce our delegation of twelve climate leaders from across...
Climate Voices
Holding the Line
After landing Saturday night back home from Glasgow, I spent this week presenting back to groups abo...
Climate Voices
Countering Darkness with Action
It's that back to school time of year. For those of us in the northern hemisphere it is a time to wa...
Climate Generation Gist
Going for Gold in the All Around
As you may imagine, the IPCC report released last week has been top of mind for all of us. The rep...
Climate Generation Gist
July: Regrounding in Truth
I have the fortune of living in Northern Minnesota on the edge of the Boundary Waters all summer, ...
Climate Generation Gist
The Work
Climate change sits in my gut like stones
in the pockets of my clothes
pulling me under water
after ...
Storytelling
Leaving the Paris Agreement, Staying Committed
December 12, 2015 has been described as historic — the day we turned the tide on climate change.
On ...
Climate Voices
Gifts from My Week at Climate Strong
Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. T...
Climate Voices
Climate Denial Hits Our Classrooms
It’s hard to miss the all out attack the current administration has made on all policies related to ...
Teach Climate
The Role of Climate Change Education in the International Climate Negotiations
Article 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) recognizes the impor...
Climate Voices
Meet Our COP22 Delegation
What is the significance of COP22?
Climate change is a global problem that demands international act...
Climate Voices
#Teach4Climate Back to School 2016 Campaign
We're proud to join our partners at #youth4climate again in this school year celebration of teaching...
Teach Climate
Kristen’s Climate Story: Landing from Paris
December 12, 2015 has been described as historic – the day we turned the tide on climate change. On ...
Storytelling
#Youth4Climate: Paris and Beyond
Last September, 194 young people stood in the balcony at United Nations Headquarters in New York and...
Teach Climate
The Paris Agreement: From COP21 to the Earth Day Signing Ceremony, and Beyond
[caption id="attachment_16331" align="alignright" width="350"] View from the inside as the Paris Agr...
Teach Climate
Making a Space for Climate Change in the Classroom
Climate change education (or lack thereof) has been in the news recently, with headlines ranging fro...
Teach Climate
Divest-Invest Minnesota
February 28, 2016
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Action
After the Celebration, What Does “Let’s Get to Work” Mean?
There are moments you remember from your school years. Moments when your teacher brought some topic ...
Climate Literacy
Photo Slideshow Provides a Window Into Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_9XD3MyVL4...
Climate Literacy
Ambassadors of Empathy
“If we are willing to open our hearts to the problems of others, then we just might start a real dia...
Climate Literacy
Sustaining Hope Through Teachers
Today I want to talk about teachers. I want to talk about the tremendous service they provide to our...
Climate Literacy
An Ode to Ice
Tomorrow marks a week here in Paris, and the emotional impact of being witness, investing, and immer...
Climate Literacy
Actions at COP21
Actions are a part what makes the COP experience so unique. These actions are sanctioned opportuniti...
Climate Literacy
Window into Paris Begins!
Our Window into Paris: COP21 program has begun! We truly kicked things off on a high note today: we ...
Climate Literacy
Education Day Reflections
Yesterday was the first education day held at a COP, highlighting that climate change education is b...
Climate Literacy
The Ambassadors are Coming To Town
Our Education Ambassadors come today - we are so excited! Frank Niepold, NOAA's Climate Education Co...
Climate Literacy
White House announces our COP21 Education Ambassadors!
Recognizing that educators are critical messengers of climate and energy literacy for hundreds of st...
Climate Generation
On the Road NW with Climate Minnesota: Local Stories, Community Solutions
Spring has arrived in the Northland and it was clear as the Climate Minnesota team traveled north to...
Storytelling
Climate Literacy Presentations at NSTA 2015: Chicago
Climate Generation and other members of the CLEAN Network are going to be busy at the National Scien...
Antarctic
Spending Time with a Champion
This week I was lucky to be invited to attend an afternoon at the White House with longtime educatio...
Climate Literacy
Using the National Climate Assessment (NCA)
Today the National Climate Assessment (NCA) was released providing the country with an in depth summ...
Climate Literacy
Catch the Sun!
We haven't taken the time to feature a book for awhile and I thought it would be worthwhile to featu...
Climate Literacy
A week of Climate Literacy
A week of Climate Literacy
It was with best intentions I decided to blog every day I was attending A...
Climate Literacy
Climate Literacy and AGU
I'm midway through day 2 of AGU- new ideas and information swirling around. I have been thinking a l...
Climate Literacy
High School Student Perspectives of COP 19
For the 5th year in a row the School of Environmental Studies is bringing a group of high school stu...
Policy
Next Generation Science Standards Released- Now What?
The Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS) were released this week, including for the first time cl...
Climate Literacy
Book of the Month: Flight Behavior
Note: This is part of a regular series of posts focused on integrating literacy and climate science ...
Climate Literacy
Book of the Month: Gecko Boy
Note: This is part of a monthly series of posts focused on integrating literacy and climate science ...
Climate Literacy
Climate Lesson Updates: October 2012
Happy October!
We've had a blast the last few weeks with Bloomington Lutheran and Open World Learnin...
Action
Book Discussion: Empty and Earth-The Operators Manual
Note: This is the fourth in a monthly series of posts focused on integrating literacy and climate s...
Climate Literacy
Climate Lesson Updates: September 2012
Hello Educators and Education Partners!
It is hard to believe September is almost over. We hope you...
Action
Overcoming Climate Change Misconceptions in the Classroom
ENED 6126: Overcoming Climate Change Misconceptions in the Classroom Hamline University Online 2 cr...
Graduate Courses
Book of the Month: Ship Breaker
Note: This is the third in a monthly series of posts focused on integrating literacy and climate sc...
Climate Literacy
Duluth Flooding, Climate Adaptation, and Extreme Weather
An article in the Star Tribune this week discussed the recent flooding in Duluth and the fact that "...
Solutions
Climate Literacy through Literature
I took part in the first "Not So Serious Climate and Energy Book Club," last Friday. The book clu...
Climate Literacy
Climate Change finds a place in Next Generation Science Standards
Last week the first public draft of the Next Generation Science Standards became available on-line. ...
Climate Literacy
Dinosaurs and Climate Change?! Making Science Interesting
In the past I have blogged on the importance of the "translator" or communicator of climate change, ...
Climate Literacy
Will Steger in the Coniferous Biome
Will made a visit to Proctor during the first week of January to speak to the students of Jedlicka ...
Teach Climate
Test Midwest Map
North Dakota
South Dakota
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Wisconsin
Illinois
Michigan
I...
Emerging Leaders
What Does Extreme Weather Mean for Climate Change Educators?
Over the last month it has been hard to miss the news reports, blogs and editorial commentary on the...
Teach Climate
The North Pole 25 Years Later: Climate Change and the Arctic
This weekend and into next week we will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of Will Steger's North ...
Teach Climate
What's your favorite carbon calculator?
[Update: This post has been updated and modified from the original content to ensure carbon calculat...
Teach Climate
The Parks Climate Challenge
"One of the most precious values of the national parks is their ability to teach us about ourselves...
Teach Climate
Looking to Nature for Climate Solutions
For a few years I worked in a youth program focused on engaging young people in engineering and des...
Teach Climate
Climate Change Book Review for Elementary
Being the mother of an elementary aged girl it is hard to avoid reading the Ivy and Bean series by A...
Literacy
Bringing COP16 to the Classroom
COP 16 began this week in Cancun, Mexico. "COP16/CMP6 is the 16th edition of Conference of the Par...
Teach Climate
Concepts in climate education
Every fall I teach an online course for graduate students in education at Hamline University called...
Teach Climate
Climate Change and Migration
As those of us in Northern regions bid farewell to migratory species for the winter, and those of y...
Teach Climate
Out of the vault: Will Steger's archives
Recent funding from the Minnesota Historical Society has enabled us to begin organizing Will's vast...
Teach Climate
"Translating" Scientific Articles To Your Students
Finding ways to make scientific research accessible to the non scientist is important, if not esse...
Teach Climate
Fill Your Notebooks!
During Dr. Naomi Oreskes's public forum a few weeks ago, she spoke about how she answers the questi...
Teach Climate
Five Reasons Why...
Throughout the last few months we have been busy planning for our Fifth Annual Institute for Climat...
Teach Climate
When the Kids Call for Better Behavior
This opinion piece was posted in the Minneapolis Star Tribune today and we thought it was worth sha...
Teach Climate
Summer Institute for European Students on Climate Change and Sustainability
This week we have been busy working with a group of college students from Denmark, Norway, the Neth...
Teach Climate
The "so I biked to work today" blog
I feel like most people in the blogging world, especially those of us in environmental nonprofits, ...
Teach Climate
Environmental Education and "techno-naturalists"
This is the second in a series of blogs focused on connecting to the natural world in anticipation ...
Teach Climate
Summer Camp and its place in environmental education
This is the first in a series of blogs focused on connecting to the natural world in anticipation ...
Teach Climate
Making Behavior Change Fun
Today was Bike/Walk to Work Day and seeing all the fun events to celebrate it around the Twin Citie...
Teach Climate
Citizen Climate Curriculum Puts Climate Bill in Context
Yesterday John Kerry and Joe Lieberman introduced the American Power Act a bill that, if passed, wo...
Teach Climate
Climate Change Education and the Arts
A recent collaboration between Andrew Revkin and ecoartspace to address the question "What Matters ...
Teach Climate
Integrating the "Behavioral Wedge"
Our newest Citizen Climate curriculum emphasizes civic engagement and helps teachers and students u...
Teach Climate
TED talk shows "The science behind a climate headline"
I came across this great video today on TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. It is only 4 minutes, 14 seco...
Teach Climate
Climate Change and Environmental Education
April 11-17 is National Environmental Education Week , the nation's largest environmental education...
Teach Climate
Do some fact checking with your students
This week the Colbert Report on Comedy Central featured a "Science catfight" between Joe Bastardi ,...
Teach Climate
Fun modeling tool to understand climate change past and future
I came across the Climate Wizard a few weeks ago and have been playing around with it since then. ...
Teach Climate
The Exciting World of Climate Science
The Christian Science Monitor addresses what they call the "communications gap between scientists a...
Teach Climate
Talking to Children About Climate Change
I came across this essay in one of my favorite monthly magazines, Orion, a few years ago. Rereadin...
Teach Climate
Challenges of Science Communication Featured on Podcast
Today's podcast from Point of Inquiry features yesterday's blog topic (pure coincidence of course!)...
Teach Climate
The Importance of the "Translator" in Climate Science
"Recent changes in the seasonal timing of biological events have been linked to warmer temperatures...
Teach Climate
Multimedia In the Climate Change Classroom
As educators we know that the way to teach about any subject, is approaching it from different angl...
Teach Climate
Learning Opportunity in Media Coverage of Climate Change
At the end of last week the buzz in the climate change media coverage was about a new study that ca...
Teach Climate
What does 1 m sea level rise mean?
The most recent report from the International Panel on Climate Change estimated that the global ave...
Teach Climate
“Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant,.."
...or so it is written in a resolution passed in the South Dakota legistlature this week. (full te...
Teach Climate
Expedition Overview
In March 2008, six emerging leaders, ages 21–28 from four countries, including the US, Norway, Great...
Expedition Background