{"id":6446,"date":"2015-10-07T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2015-10-07T07:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T07:03:00","slug":"the-us-way-of-doing-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/10\/07\/the-us-way-of-doing-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The US way of doing things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is always fascinating to read about how other countries do things. \u00a0Under the heading:\u00a0<em>EE Advocacy Summer Successes and an Invitation to Participate<\/em>, the North American Association of Environmental Education [NAAEE] says this about Environmental Education in the\u00a0USA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"<em>Environmental Education made advances in two key pieces of federal legislation this summer. \u00a0EE was for the first time included in the comprehensive K\u201312 education bill when it passed the full Senate on July 16. \u00a0Though the promising language wasn\u2019t in the House version, it\u2019s still very much on the table in the House-Senate reconciliation negotiations scheduled for this fall. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A second crucial advance came as new climate education legislation was brought up for a test vote in the full Senate for the first time. \u00a0While it was narrowly defeated 44-53, many Congressional bills don\u2019t pass on their first try and such a slim defeat is an encouraging sign. \u00a0A similar climate education bill is still pending in the House and we are looking for additional cosponsors (H.R.1961). \u00a0NAAEE is also supporting annual environmental education appropriations pending for EPA, NOAA, and other federal programs. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These successes are key steps towards final consideration of these pieces of legislation,\u00a0and the field needs all of our voices to ensure we cross the finish line. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is certainly a glass half-full view of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Full details can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/naaee.net\/advocacy\">here<\/a>\u00a0where\u00a0you can also learn about the targeted bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always fascinating to read about how other countries do things. \u00a0Under the heading:\u00a0EE Advocacy Summer Successes and an Invitation to Participate, the North American Association of Environmental Education [NAAEE] says this about Environmental Education in the\u00a0USA: \"Environmental Education...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}