A recent Washington Times Story includes mention of cell phone technology as a tool for interpretation.

The 2007 Nevada Weed Management Association Conference will be held in Las Vegas October 9-12, 2007. Contact Tina Mudd for registration and presentation information.

Two Environmental Education Online Courses are being offered this summer and fall:  Applied Environmental Education Program Evaluation and Fundamentals of Environmental Education. These courses tend to fill quickly, so if you are interested please contact Angela Lemar as soon as possible. Scholarships are available. 

The Desert Conservation Program video series is now available on-line. The series includes videos on OHV recreation, reptiles, and much more. 

Volvo is sponsoring an award for teams of two to five young people working on a practical action project to improve their school or community environment. Both ongoing environmental projects that have had a positive impact on the environment and new projects can benefit. The best entries will be asked to join an international conference to present their ideas in Sweden and compete for final prizes. All ideas and action plans will also be published and presented to the United Nations Environment Programme. The deadline for submitting projects is midnight on January 31, 2008.

The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has launched the Green Hour program to educate parents, teachers, caregivers, and elected officials about how vital outdoor experiences are in children's lives, and to increase the number of kids spending time with all things wild and woolly.

K-12 students and teachers are invited to apply for SeaWorld/Busch Gardens/Fujifilm Environmental Excellence Awards for prior accomplishments in protecting and preserving the environment at the grassroots level. School and community groups will be given awards of $10,000, plus a camera, materials, and travel expenses to an awards event. Deadline: November 30, 2007.

Make a difference – unplug your cell phone charger! Significantly reducing the amount of energy you use can be as simple as turning off your computer monitor and other items when not in use. Electrical appliances left on standby and plugged in power adaptors constantly use electricity – and it adds up. www.treehugger.com reports that only 5% of the power drawn by cell phone chargers are actually used to charge phones. The other 95% is wasted when you leave it plugged into the wall, but not into your phone. The lesson? Unplug your charger when you are not using it (or plug everything on a power strip and use the switch to turn it off instead of manually plugging and unplugging things). The latest research and information on climate change can be found at http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/primer/index.html.