NNREC members and supporters will gather Saturday, October 21 for the Annual Members Meeting. We'll celebrate our 20th anniversary, award outstanding environmental educators and programs, report on our successes for the year, elect new board members and announce our new mission, vision and values, discuss the future of EE, enjoy each other's company, and get a tour of the new Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences with Heather Segale. Please join us!

The meeting will be 1:30 to 4:00 at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, on the campus of Sierra Nevada College, in Incline Village. We'll be in Assembly Room B, and you can park in the lot off Country Club Drive.

The North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) has awarded NNREC a grant of $7500 to develop an environmental educator certification program for Nevada. NNREC will be working with the Public Lands Institute and other partners to develop this program. If you would like to join this effort, email director@nnrec.org.

Under the EETAP Building State Capacity for EE grant, NNREC and partners have written the first draft of the Nevada Environmental Education Training Plan and the Nevada Environmental Literacy Guideline, which are available online. Please help us revise these documents during September and October, which will guide the provision of EE by NNREC and others. Contact Dan Allison, director@nnrec.org.

Partners for Education About the Environment has published a new website at http://enviroedexchange.org/, developed by Allison Brody of the Public Lands Institute. The site offers resources for teachers, including the Field Trip Resource Guide, which extends the CHOLLA Beyond the Classroom site, as well as resources for all educators. To comment on or add material to the field trip database, contact Allison Brody allison.brody@unlv.ed u.

NNREC is looking for a better way of communicating with our members and the environmental education community. We have a trial subscription with Constant Contact, an email management solution that many of our partners already use, which allows the easy creation of visually appealing newsletters, AND management of subscribers that is easy for you and for us.

We will still publish a print newsletter once a year for our members, but are looking for alternatives to emailing a pdf newsletter which we have been doing for the last two years. We like the pdf format, but to be honest we just don't have the resources to publish that way on a regular basis, and we would like to be in contact with your more frequently.

We would very much like your feedback on this new newsletter format! Please take our SurveyMonkey survey. People who respond by Friday, September 15 have a chance to win a new or renewed membership.