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CEEI
Center for Environmental Education and Information, a 50lc3 founded in 1990 at the Hemingway Learning Institute, P.O. Box 1778, Sun Valley, Idaho 83353, fax and phone 208-578-1557, email ceei@cox.net. (All rights reserved.) Purpose: to make current information on the status of the environment available to every classroom.
This is a Beta web site
Facts about the Center for Environmental Education and Information ( this is a beta web site. It was designed for funders to evaluate several key features. it has been successful and further suggestions are being incorporated.
It is a PhP program and is free ware ! IBM donated it to the internet community. its problem is that no one takes care of the program its code or maintains the program. its estimated that 500 versions are out there !
Unfortunatly its a dice game whether the program will do what you expect it to do. CEEI has experienced problems. These are being fixed. the entire program will operate differently !
CEEI was founded in 1992 when a serious gap was discovered between what was reported in the general news media on the condition of environment and reality as reported by the scientific community. The founding members felt unless the public knows the truth, little will be done to correct the many serious conditions that not only affect our health today, but could eventually affect our survival tomorrow. www.ceei-news.org
It was concern with these issues that brought about the establishment of the CEEI, a 501c3. What makes this organization different than the many environmental organizations that exist today -- our primary purpose is to establish CEEI web sites that gather together all the information we can obtain on major issues of concern to inform the public of the true facts of the state of our environment as documented by professional research scientists. www.ceei-news.org
Ecopedia, a student environmental education program:
The CEEI web sites (listed above) , though available to the public now in both the U.S. and Europe, are specifically directed to all primary, secondary, college and post graduate level students, since we think the most effective change will come from knowledgeable young people, both in this country and world-wide, who will become informed adults on issues involving our environment. To this end, with our education web site, Ecopedia (details attached), we have established class projects for students of science who can follow up with their own research of discovery, have their work published and archived. Getting them involved and interested in what they can do to address current, local issues we hope will also help them see how they can make a difference, regardless of their age. www.eco-pedia.org will allow them to post their papers on the environment and climate.
and categorize it and archive it. please write a summary or an abstract.
In regard to local issues -- fifteen years ago, when we discovered that no one in the Idaho media, for business or political reasons, would publish the full list of the 962 polluted streams that did not meet the criteria of the Clean Water Act in this state, because of high temperatures, too much nutrient, sediment, chemicals, and other pollutants, this became cause for action. CEEI reasoned that the internet offered a way around the media and went directly to the schools. (According to a close personal friend attending the University of Idaho for his Ph.D., the students, who were spending four days studying the 303d section of the Clean Water Act, were astonished when confronted with the many streams that were polluted in their state.) www.apsrs.org and www.esew.org
CEEI has now gone to work on a national level, identifying 26 major environmental projects (web sites suitable for educational purposes), believing that they are the only enviro-education resource that would carry factual data and information to support education in the country. These web sites are being built, but CEEI needs help.
CGCSAS, CEEI Google Climate Status and Assessment System program:
To greatly enhance our CEEI news web site, we have created the CGCSAS Program (CEEI Google Climate Status and Assessment System) which works now with the CEEI www.ecopedia.org and can deliver up to 200 times more information, depending on the number of subcategories. It is compatible with all browsers and computer e-mail programs and therefore can be processed, or used, by everyone. This is a superior system for it creates the magnitude the subject deserves based on science, (it’s updated every two minutes automatically). CEEI downloads up to 5,000 current articles a day, while the media is overwhelmed with this world-wide onslaught of information, CEEI deals with it one category at a time. www.ceei-news.org
CEEI current status is as follows:
SEAC (Student Environment Action Committee) is active in 1461 colleges and universities in promoting CEEI visibility in college newspapers to encourage students to publish all their research papers in their hard drives on the www.eco-pedia.org
We now have operatives among the Coral Club’s list of members (6,000 marine biologists) who send us their communications, and we have the support of the American Chemical Society who are sending us all their bulletins. CEEI has many more input providers -- businesses, educational institutions and government agencies (we posted the ACIA 2004 report to Congress - the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report). All this information is being read and posted to the CEEI archives and will become available to students as a special download.
Our planet in peril:
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-impacts-interactive.html
The Following Climate Alert categories are key 350ppm to -380ppm, high temperatures sustained, Green glaciers melting, Greenland ice melting, Greenland current diversion, Iceland current diversion, N. Atlantic current diversion, Gulf stream current diversion, N Pacific current diversion, Japanese current diversion, Sea of Ohkotsk current diversion, Indian current diversion, Arizona drought, Arizona temperatures, Siberian permafrost melting, Siberian river flow data, Current diversion.Black Sea drought, Caspeian sea drought, Aral Sea drought. These are super sensiative alerts. (Others will reported from the Arctic and Antarctic.soon.)
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/climateconnections/climate-map
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=warmer-antarctica-proves-global-climate-change
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=1&name=Agriculture
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=2&name=Air+Pollution
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=3&name=Arctic+and+Antarctic
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=4&name=Atmosphere
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=11&name=Deserts+and+Forests
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=13&name=Drought
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=6&name=California+Fires
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=8&name=Chemicals
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=9&name=Climate+Change
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=12&name=Disease
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=15&name=Energy
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=60&name=UN+OPEN+LETTER
http://www.ceei-news.org/major.php?majorID=141&name=Clean+Water+Act+%238+Mercury+Clouds+from+Nevada
http://www.ceeinews.org/major.phpmajorID=140&name=CEEI+INvitation+to+President+Barak+Obama)
STREAMS: www.apsrs.org CEEI publishes all the 40,000 303(d) polluted streams in 50 states released in 1994.
SPECIES: www.esew.org CEEI tries to list all the species worldwide that are in trouble. We check with the CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) and WCU (World Conservation Union) in Switzerland. (2003)
CLIMATE: www.ceei-climate.org Published the ACIA (Arctic Climate Impact Assessment) report funded by Congress. (2006)
www.Eco-pedia.org allows students to publish their enviro-climate research assessment papers. (2007)
www.ceei-news.org 1000 Enviro-climate categories available -just click on them. (2008)
maphttp://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-impacts-interactive.html
Ecopedia Program www.ecopedia.org
Eco-pedia is a CEEI program designed for elementary, secondary, college and post graduate students. It’s purpose is to encourage student-teacher participation in real and urgent environmental research on the local, state and national level. This program can be extremely valuable as students are encouraged to participate in surveys, status papers and projects that will involve them in cutting edge research, especially where so much important information is missing at the state and local level.
Eco-pedia is also an internet CEEI web site that will publish, and archive school-based research projects. It acts as a resource and provides suggestions on how students can better learn about their world by doing real research projects. It also provides the eco-pedia web site at www.eco-pedia.org. Student can post their research papers. There are separate files for 8th grade, high school. college, post grad and expert grades and search engines for each as well. Planet science is changing daily !
Eco-pedia is composed of the following elements:
l. A school based program for participation in a research
learning program.
2. A school based program for participating in a voluntary resource system
Since changes almost daily in the Bio and Geo field the eco-pedia can contribute to local knowlegde as well as general knowledge
in fileing and viewing system an archives systems.
3. Incentive prizes can be included for each class that competes
with other classes in a school district, or other school districts
within the same state, or within the country.
4. The Eco-pedia web site can serve as a base for all student-
generated research projects that can be catalogued, archived
and easily found. phenology studies are big and seem to be growing a;; over. more later
Potential subjects for student research:
On the books, there are 26 enviro-laws of which most Americans are simply unaware, or, if they are, many times these laws are ignored. The worst offenders are those that discount the importance of The Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, with the Clean Air and the Food Quality and Protection Act following close behind. In regard to the Chemical Safety Information and Site Safety and Relief Act, these offenders totally ignore the affect of chemicals on average Americans and their health. Many of these subjects can be utilized from the existing CEEI web sites on Species, Streams and the Climate. For example: a particular class can adopt polluted streams as a topic, research the local county map -- one that shows the local streams and their names, and compare these names against the official state 303(d) polluted stream list in the CEEI web site and on the official state lists on the deq web site. All this information can be downloaded from the CEEI state polluted streams list.
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Drought status in the US is determined by local opinion about past rainfall and moisture available ( Ground water) planting experience,and present out look about snow pack, weather forecasts, market conditions. Usually county commissioners, consult with, Govt agencies, Weather Bureau, Forest Service. USGS, BLM and Dept of Agricullture,( state and federal inputs).Farm bureaus, etc.
The GCGSAS demonstration with an permafrost archive file shows how easy it is for a student to search CGCSAS files and group them, then run a key word search against this new cgcsas file. They can handle about 30,000 line items at once ! Write a paper and then post the papery ! The system is set up for 8th graders, high school, college, Post grads and experts level.
Even parents can use it. You can also navigate through and into the climate and planet inter-net. this system is set for use in fall 2010. write the Director at ceei@cox.net . for a sample demonstration problem.
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