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Earth Tomorrow Concludes 8th Annual Summer Institute
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
By: Denise Farley
31 Local Teens gathered for a week of fun, learning, and leadership training
On June 14-19, 2009, NWF volunteers, community partners, and staff, led by Na’Taki Osborne Jelks, Manager of Community and Leadership Development Programs, hosted the 8th Annual Earth Tomorrow Summer Institute. At the 6-day residential program, 31 teen leaders from across Metro Atlanta gathered at Georgia Tech for an intensive week of environmental education, community service, leadership training, and fun.
The Summer Institute is a key component of the Atlanta Earth Tomorrow program and kicks off a year-long cycle of leadership training, environmental issues exploration, civic engagement, and career development for underserved urban teens. The Summer Institute is designed to help teens better understand the environmental issues impacting their communities and obtain the skills needed to create and lead their own environmental action projects. In addition to leadership training, this year’s Institute included many first time outdoor experiences such as overnight camping at Unicoi State Park, archery, water quality monitoring through stream and macro-invertebrate studies, and tubing along the Chattahoochee River.
These varied experiences, in addition to a college and career fair with local universities and environmental agencies and organizations and the added benefit of an introduction to campus life, helps put teens on a career path, as well as a life path of a responisble and engaged environmental steward.
Since its inception, over 1,000 high school students have participated in the Atlanta Earth Tomorrow Program---fostering an endearing respect, awareness, and lifelong commitment to protecting the global environment by acting locally.
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A Sweet Victory for Everglades Restoration
Monday, July 7, 2008
By: Matthew Elder
US Sugar sells land to Florida
Tallahassee, FL. The South Florida Water Management District has ratified the purchase of 187,000 acres of the Everglades owned by US Sugar in order to help return the “River of Grass” to its natural flow. 
The size and scope of this ambitious land purchase should send a clear signal to Congress that the state is fully committed to restoration of the Everglades (Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project - CERP) and that the federal government must step up and provide additional funding for construction projects that, heretofore, have gone without full federal participation. Last year Congress finally passed a bill authorizing further spending, but so far no money has been approved.
Read More About the Everglades Land Purchase...
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Where's Senator Martinez on Global Warming??
Friday, April 4, 2008
By: Matthew Elder
Florida Wildlife Federation calls for Senator Martinez to step to the plate on Global Warming legislation.
Florida Wildlife Federation's Policy Consultant Jay Liles recently wrote an opinion piece in the Orlando Sentinel where he asks where Sen.Mel Martinez is when it comes to global warming legislation.
In this leap year, some of our nation's leaders are making the leap into the future -- a future in which greenhouse gases are reduced, alternative energy produces new jobs and takes America down the road to energy security that also means getting America's economy back on track.
So where is U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez on energy and climate-change policy?
The Florida Wildlife Federation is an affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation.
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Issues we work on
- Global Warming
- Southern Forest Ecosystem Restoration
- Florida Panther Recovery
- Everglades Restoration
- Urban Youth Environmental Leadership
- Gardening for Wildlife
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Contact Us:
Southeast Natural Resource Center
730 Peachtree St. NE Suite 1000
Atlanta, GA 30308
Phone: 404-876-8733
Fax: 404-892-1744
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Affiliates in the Region:
Alabama Wildlife Federation
3050 Lanark Road
Millbrook, AL 36054
Florida Wildlife Federation
PO Box 6870
Tallahassee, FL 32314
Georgia Wildlife Federation
11600 Hazelbrand Road
Covington, GA 30014
League of Kentucky Sportsmen
Mississippi Wildlife Federation
855 South Pear Orchard Road Suite 500
Ridegland, MS 39157
South Carolina Wildlife Federation
2711 Middleburg Drive, Suite 101
Columbia, SC 29204
Virgin Islands Conservation Society
Arawak Building, Suite 3, Gallows Bay
Christiansted, VI 00820
Sociedad Ornitológica Puertorriqueña
PO Box 195166
San Juan, PR 00919-5166
Tennessee Wildlife Federation
300 Orlando Ave, Suite 200
Nashville, TN 37209 | |
