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Laura Hickey is the Senior Director, Eco-Schools USA program of the National Wildlife Federation. She has been with NWF for over 24 years in a variety of positions, but finds working with K-12 schools to integrate environmental education throughout the school is the most rewarding.
What National Wildlife Week Means To Me
The endangered gray wolf was the poster child of the 1974 National Wildlife Week, whose theme was “We Care About Endangered Wildlife.” It’s also the reason that I came to work for the National Wildlife Federation in 1986. In 1974,… Read more >
New Jersey’s Ben Franklin Elementary is the Highlight of My Week (and a Silver Award Eco-School)
On Monday I had the privilege of traveling to New Jersey with Director Jane Nishida and Justin Harris of the US EPA Office of Regional and Bilateral Affairs to visit with our partners, Sustainable Jersey, at The College of New… Read more >
Building Bridges: Can Eco-Schools Help Build a Stronger Sustainability Bridge Between Portland and Hong Kong?
This week I had the pleasure of attending a meeting hosted by the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Assistant Administrator and Chief Information Officer, Malcolm Jackson, for Portland, Oregon, Mayor Sam Adams and Commissioner Donald C.K. Tong, of the Hong… Read more >
Eco-Schools USA: Celebrating Last Year’s Accomplishments and Ringing in 2012
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. This lovely saying from Edith Lovejoy Pierce epitomizes to… Read more >
Global Dimensions: A Sustainable School Partnership Growing in Taiwan
I was very fortunate to be offered the opportunity to travel on a US EPA mission to Taiwan this week with our partners from Sustainable Jersey, Donna Drewes and Randy Solomon, and Justin Harris from the US EPA International and… Read more >
Climate Change Connections: Connecting with Educators from Around the Globe
The Eco-Schools USA team held its second NASA/Eco-Schools USA Climate Change Connections professional development institute event on July 27-29, 2011 in Washington, DC. For this training, we brought in educators from Fairbanks and Wasilla, Alaska, tribal schools from the Southwest… Read more >
The Foundation for Environmental Education: a Diverse, Flexible Family Meets in London
This past weekend, I was in London for the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) consultative meeting. FEE operates five programs worldwide: Eco-Schools, Blue Flag, Green Key, Young Reporters for the Environment, and Learning About Forests (LEAF). The FEE gathering was… Read more >
First Eco-Schools USA “Green Flag” Awarded
On April 28th, I traveled to Savannah with my colleague, NaTaki Osborne Jelks, to visit the Savannah Country Day School Lower School (SCDS). SCDS was one of the first schools to be registered as an Eco-School in November 2009, and… Read more >
Eco-Schools in Edinburgh: Imagine…
Eco-Schools Scotland students use music as a way to communicate environmental ethic and literacy. Day 2 of the National Operators Meeting was very inspiring. Read more >
Eco-Schools in Edinburgh: National Operators Meeting Convenes in Scotland
This week, Eco-Schools USA is reporting to you from the program’s National Operators Meeting in Scotland. Read more >
