Earth Partnership promotes native habitat restoration as a process for community learning and land stewardship
Learning through stewardship:
- Improves educational opportunities for all learners
- Builds meaningful relationships in human communities and with natural communities
- Promotes ecological literacy
- Takes action to heal the land
- Strengthens resilience to environmental and climatic challenges
- Fosters hope in young people and adults
How Earth Partnership Works
Earth Partnership collaborates with diverse communities to create vibrant outdoor learning spaces using a curriculum-based 10-step ecological restoration process. Through facilitated relationship-building and dialogue, communities identify their shared stewardship vision and the ways EP can help make it a reality. Restoration education training is made available to a variety of learners through teacher professional development, youth programming, and family and community engagement.
Mission
To engage educators and learners of all ages and backgrounds in community-based ecological restoration for healthy environments.
Vision
For communities across the world to be actively engaged in ecological restoration that connects people to the land and each other through a commitment to stewardship.
News
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and the University of Wisconsin – Madison Earth Partnership Indigenous Arts and Sciences: Nibi gaa-gikinoo’amaage, Nibi gaa-bimaaji’iwemagak (Water will Teach, Water Will Give Life)
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will involve Red Cliff tribal community leaders, Elders, and scientists, NOAA Sea Grant personnel, and UW-Madison staff in collaboration with Bayfield/Washburn teachers …
July 21, 20212021 Fall First-Year Interest Groups Opportunities
Earth Partnership, Indigenous Arts & Sciences: Restoration Education and Stewardship 9 total credits: Interdisciplinary Courses (L&S) 106 Earth Partnership: Indigenous Arts & Sciences Environmental Studies 112 Environmental Studies: The Social Perspective American Indian Studies 100 …
July 19, 2021Restoring mangroves in Puerto Rico supports human health and well-being
With a new coastal resilience grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), the University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla will work with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture (DPLA) …
July 15, 2021- More News
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Thank you to our funders:
Current:
- National Science Foundation
- Spencer Foundation
- USDA Forest Service/National Institute of Food and Agriculture
- UW-Madison School of Education/Grand Challenges
- Private donations
Previous
US Environmental Protection Agency; Wisconsin ESSA Improving Teacher Quality Program; Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment; Sand County Foundation; Morgridge Center for Public Service; Wisconsin Environmental Education Board; Nuzum – Kickapoo Valley Restoration Fund; NOAA Wisconsin Sea Grant; NOAA Bay Watershed Education and Training; Institute of Museum and Library Services; US Environmental Protection Agency – Great Lakes Restoration Initiative; Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Precollege Education Program; USDA Forest Service – More Kids in the Woods Program; UW Center for Biology Education; The Patrick and Anna M. Cudahy Fund; Excel Energy; US Fish and Wildlife Service – Schoolyard Strategic Assessment and Action Plan; WI Coastal Management Program; Friends of the UW–Madison Arboretum