MAINE MONITOR • March 3, 2024
As I’ve grown up and my career has honed in [sic] on environmental issues, I’m often asked about my education and how I got here. I have no formal science training; I studied classics and journalism in college. It’s this foundation of outdoor education that gave me my connection to the natural world — a sense of my place in it, and an awareness that human actions can and do change the planet. Teachers in Maine are increasingly pushing for more resources to expose their students to this kind of “place-based” climate and environmental learning. They gathered in Augusta this week to celebrate that effort and look to expand it.