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2010-2011 Annual Report

We are proud to share the Will Steger Foundation’s 2010-2011 Annual Report. The report highlights our activities from September 2010-August 2011.

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YEA! MN and MPIRG Team Up

Join YEA! MN and MPIRG as we team up for a youth lobby day at the MN State Capitol in support of solar energy and the Recycling Refund Act.

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Extreme Weather 101

Throughout the last year it has been hard to miss the news reports, blogs and editorial commentary on the extreme weather events that have been sweeping the country. Tornadoes, flooding, snowstorms, above normal and below normal temperatures have caught the media and the nation’s attention.

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Emerging Leaders Program: Midwest

After much anticipation WSF is excited to unveil new online Emerging Leaders Program content. Updates include a cleaner overview of program scope and vision, quick links to our vibrant youth partners state by state, and a revised YEA! MN landing page.

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7th Annual Summer Institute for Climate Change Education

Investigate Minnesota’s Changing Climate at the Will Steger Foundation’s 7th Annual Summer Institute for Climate Change Education

August 7 and 8, 2012 at the School of Environmental Studies in Apple Valley, MN

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Join the National Bike Ride for Sustainable Solutions and Support WSF!

Climate Ride is a fully-supported, 5-day charitable bike ride, and it's the one and only multi-day charitable bicycling event that supports bike advocacy and organizations working toward a sustainable future. By riding in Climate Ride you can support the Will Steger Foundation!

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Will Steger: Make America climate-literate

MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Even though I am most known as a polar explorer, my career and lifelong passion has been as an educator. As soon as I graduated from the University of St. Thomas in 1967, I taught middle-school science.

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Minnesota's Changing Climate Classroom

Join the Will Steger Foundation on an Exploration of Minnesota’s Changing Climate

Minnesota’s Changing Climate curriculum project ties Will Steger’s adventures from boyhood to adulthood with engaging content on Minnesota’s natural environment (i.e. biomes) and the impacts of climate change. The curriculum includes lesson plans for grades 3-12, as well as an online classroom with video, audio and interactive content.

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Steger Foundation Blog: Most Recent

Minnesota's Changing Climate Updates, January 31
Written by Kristen Poppleton, Education Program Manager

Some of you may have seen Will's editorial last week in the Star Tribune raising awareness about the importance of climate literacy. He wrote: "Teaching and understanding climate change is a process involving scientific inquiry and educational pedagogy; it is not about politics or partisanship. There is virtually unanimous scientific…

Written on Tuesday, 31 January 2012 11:31 in Climate Lessons
Tags: minnesota mnclimate elementary secondary mccupdate
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YEA! MN and MPIRG Team Up
Written by Abby Fenton, Youth Programs Director

Join YEA! MN and MPIRG as we team up for a youth lobby day at the MN State Capitol in support of solar energy and the Recycling Refund Act. Click here for info and registration

Written on Friday, 27 January 2012 12:24 in Local (Minnesota)
Tags: yeamn minnesota mpirg
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Join the National Bike Ride for Sustainable Solutions and Support WSF!
Written by Nicole Rom, Executive Director

Climate Ride is a fully-supported, 5-day charitable bike ride, and it's the one and only multi-day charitable bicycling event that supports bike advocacy and organizations working toward a sustainable future. By riding in Climate Ride you can support the Will Steger Foundation! Read More...

Written on Thursday, 26 January 2012 14:11 in Climate News
Tags: climateride
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A Regional Coalition Rises out of the Heartland
Written by Abby Fenton, Youth Programs Director

Emerging from a several years of strategic conversation, cross-state collaboration, and the intense growth of the youth climate movement here in the Midwest, a fledgling coalition is rising. Following in the spirit of regional coalitions launched in the Southeast (Southern Energy Network) and Northwest (Cascade Climate Network), the Midwest Youth…

Written on Friday, 20 January 2012 16:32 in Local (Minnesota)
Tags: emergingleaders youthaction youthleadership minnesota midwest reamp midwestyouthcoalition
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EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson visits Minnesota
Written by Christy Newell, WSF Policy Intern

On Tuesday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson spoke at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities about the role of science in public health and environmental protection policy. The audience also got a glimpse of Jackson's personal life. She shared the story of her own son who suffers from…

Written on Friday, 20 January 2012 14:06 in Climate News
Tags: epa emergingleaders climatepolicy climatenews youthaction minnesota cleanairact lisajackson humanhealth
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:45

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 Netherlands, England, Scotland, Portugal and France. They are here through the University of Minnesota's Office of International Studies and are studying Climate Change and Sustainability for five weeks. We have been lucky to host them for a few days up at Will's homestead outside Ely teaching them about the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, as well as discussing issues of climate change policy at an international level. It is always exciting for us as at the Foundation to meet with youth from other countries and to have time to have a dialogue on climate change from a global perspective. For one activity, we pulled from our Citizen Climate curriculum a lesson on equity in climate negotiations, and discussed different definitions of equity. Our discussion was all the more rich because of the diversity of nations represented in our group. Here are a few photos of the group in action both using their brains and using their hands!

Published in Climate Lessons

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