Outdoor education

Several overcome by heat during outdoor back to school event

email LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Hundreds were celebrating Tuesday morning at the Russ Bus Back to School Tour to promote education. But WAVE 3's Elizabeth Donatelli reports that for the second year ...

BEAM summer camp

The closest experience I had to summer camp was Outdoor Education in elementary school: essentially a long weekend in the mountains during the winter. We hiked, learned about nature, sang songs, square-danced, star-gazed, and had a great time. I will...

Kentucky Community gets EPA Grant for Wetlands Restoration

The University of Kentucky Research Foundation has been awarded a $20,000 grant, through the EPA's Five Star Wetlands Restoration Program, for the Millcreek Stream and Wetland Restoration Project and Outdoor Classroom. The project goal is to develop a water-focused education program at Millcreek Elementary School by restoring stream and wetlands habitats around the free-flowing, meandering creek on the school grounds. The outdoor classroom will help the environment by improving water quality and...

John Muir Awards for Islay's Young Adventurers

Seventy-four Islay children aged between seven and fourteen, all members of the Young Adventurers Club, have now achieved their 'Discoverer' award, the first level of the national John Muir Award Scheme. The club is run in conjunction with Islay Natural History Trust, and Jeremy Hastings’ Islay Birding is the John Muir award scheme provider in Islay. The Young Adventurers club is supported by Mactaggart Third Fund. Jeremy says, 'Sir John Mactaggart feels that it is important for Islay child...

Bargains Delivered Launches Consumer Education Website LearnBeforeYouBuy.com

Bargains Delivered has announced the launch of its website, LearnBeforeYouBuy.com. The site focuses on consumer education with articles on a variety of products. For example, in the outdoor recreation...

Eating Ecologically

One of the core programs at the Cottonwood Institute is called the Community Adventure Program (CAP). CAP is a class offered to public high schools students, which combines outdoor survival skills with environmental awareness and education. Throughout the class, students...

Season, Gender, Age, and Education as Modifiers of the Effects of Outdoor Air Pollution on Daily Mortality in Shanghai, ...

Kan H, London SJ, Chen G, Zhang Y, Song G, Zhao N, Jiang L, Chen B. 2008. Environ Health Perspect: doi:10.1289/ehp.10851.

Bow Hunters Education

Any person born on or after January 1, 1973, is required to be certified in either basic Hunter Education or Bow Hunter Education before purchasing any hunting license, including an archery license. Wisconsin has adopted the National Bowhunter Education Foundation's (NBEF) International Bowhunter Education Program which is acknowledged and accepted worldwide. Although Wisconsin's bowhunter education program is voluntary and a bowhunter education certificate is not currently required in order to ...

Meet a Chiropractor - Scott Swanson of San Francisco

By Daria Belov It's been said that there are as many different ways to practice chiropractic as there are chiropractors. Each chiropractor brings to the profession a uniqueness and individual sense of self. They take the clay of chiropractic foundation, and mold it into shapes that form the representation of themselves as a doctor of chiropractic. While there's no denying that chiropractors differ from one another, there are numerous things that they share in common. What do you say we get to kn...

2008 MSN Real Estate Best Bargain Markets

I didn't realize that Dallas/Fort Worth was in this survey until I started reading this. 2008 MSN Real Estate Best Bargain Markets The cities chosen for our list have a population of at least 500,000 between the major city and surrounding county. They range in size from Harrisburg-Carlisle, Pa., with a population of 525,380, to one of the nation's largest metropolises, Dallas-Fort Worth, with a population of 6 million. Three are state capitals, and many have universities or colleges to provide c...