Environmental Education Association of South Carolina - EEASC

11/05/2026

Shouts to EEASC board member, Tanya Towne, for becoming a South Carolina Master Naturalist! 👏

10/21/2026

10/08/2026

Energy Awareness Month is coming up in October! Join the SC Energy Office on October 15th to learn about their K-12 Energy Curriculum. Annie Johnson, a high school teacher at the Academy for the Arts, Science & Technology will share how she implemented some of the lessons with her students. This webinar is open to any formal or nonformal educator and will also focus on how to incorporate ideas into Green Step Schools projects! Register here: https://forms.gle/7XRrnqVsdB4gvmCw9.

10/02/2026

EEASC's October Western Section Meetup 🌾

Join us at Clemson University's Restoration Agriculture Farm at the historic Calhoun Fields, a demonstration farm where berms and swales manage floodwater and more than sixty native tree and shrub species are being planted alongside crops.

We'll tour the farm with manager John Mark Lawton, talk soil, climate, and the human history of this land, then bird the field edges at golden hour. Afterward, we'll head to Kite Hill Brewing in Patrick Square!

- Monday, October 26, 4:45–6:00 p.m.
- Calhoun Fields Laboratory, Clemson

Bring closed-toe shoes, water, a layer, and binoculars if you have them. This is an active research farm. All are welcome but registration is required! Sign up at eeasc.org/events.

10/01/2026

📣 Our mini-grant applications are OPEN! SC educators, it's time to bring your big ideas to life. We're now accepting applications for mini-grants of up to $1,000 to support:

- Professional development and training for educators
- Student learning opportunities and field experiences
- Service projects that support environmental stewardship

Don't miss your chance to fund hands-on learning experiences in your classroom or community. At this time, our mini-grants are only available to current EEASC members, BUT an annual membership costs as little as $20. WORTH IT!

Applications will be accepted through October 24, 2026. Award notifications will be made by November 15, 2026. Link to apply in comments!

Photo Credit: Calhoun Soil and Water Conservation District

09/23/2026

We love seeing Green Step Schools growing across South Carolina! 🌱 John W. Moore Middle School just earned its first Green Step award for completing a sensory garden project on campus.

Congratulations to the team at Moore Middle and their mentors at Keep Florence Beautiful for helping make it happen!

09/09/2026

🦖🦖 SAVE THE DATE! 🦖🦖

Our 2027 Annual Conference is headed to the Mace Brown Natural History Museum at the College of Charleston, June 8–11, 2027.

This year’s theme, JournEE Through Time: Grounded and Growing in Environmental Education, is all about honoring how far environmental education has come while looking ahead to where we go next. We’ll celebrate the roots of this work, reflect honestly on where there’s still room to grow, and explore how we can continue moving environmental education forward together.

And this year is extra special: EEASC is celebrating 50 years of environmental education in South Carolina!

Our annual conference will also be hosted jointly with the Southeast Environmental Education Alliance, bringing environmental educators from across the Southeast together in Charleston for what we hope will be our biggest conference yet.

Mark your calendars and join us next summer as we celebrate where we’ve been, where we are, and where environmental education is headed next. More details and registration coming soon!

Kentucky Association for Environmental Education | Environmental Education Association of Alabama (EEAA) | Environmental Educators of North Carolina | Tennessee Environmental Education Association | Environmental Education Alliance of Georgia | League of Environmental Educators in Florida - LEEF | Mississippi Environmental Education Alliance - MEEA

09/07/2026

Flutter into fall at EEASC's next Eastern Section Meetup!

Come spend a morning with fellow SC educators exploring butterflies and native pollinators at Lowcountry Montessori School ! We'll be catching, identifying, and even tagging Monarchs — plus hearing how LMS wove monarch research right into their curriculum. Open to all--just let us know you're coming: eeasc.org/events.

📅 Saturday, October 3, 2026 | 9 AM – 12 PM
📍 749 Broad River Drive, Lowcountry Montessori School

Park in the lot to the left — the gate will be open all morning. Questions? Reach out to [email protected].

09/04/2026

💰 Hey, SC teachers! Grants up to $2,500 are available for your school's environmental education project 👇

EEASC is proud to partner with the SC Department of Environmental Services as a partner of the Champions of the Environment grant program.

Need inspiration? Look no further than the Montessori School of Columbia, SC, a SC Green Step School and a prior Champions of the Environment grant recipient!

Thanks to their Champions of the Environment grant, along with a mini-grant from Richland Soil and Water Conservation District, MSC's Magnolia, Palmetto, and Upper Elementary classrooms now have hydroponic towers up and running — growing herbs and leafy greens while students learn about nutrient solutions, pH balance, and where healthy food really comes from. Primary classrooms are next, with tabletop systems, grow lights, and even mason-jar hydroponics on the way.

📅 This year's applications are due September 15th. If your school has an idea for an environmental education project, don't wait — apply now and see where it grows!

09/03/2026

📖 Earlier this summer, EEASC awarded Glenis Redmond with the 2026 Environmental Writer of the Year Award!

Glenis is an award-winning poet, educator, and Greenville's inaugural Poet Laureate Emerita. It's hard to think of anyone who's done more to help folks fall in love with SC's landscapes, history, and wild beauty through storytelling and poetry.

Glenis joined us as a keynote speaker at our annual conference, sharing poems and stories inspired by trips to South Carolina State Parks with her grandson. Turns out, her writing resonates as much as her speaking.

Conference attendee and EEASC member, Amber Napier, went home and took her kids to one of the very parks featured in Glenis' work — poetry in hand. In her own words: "Glenis Redmond inspired me just to get outside and slow down. I hope someone else finds inspiration in that."

Glenis' work inspires us to see the places we thought we knew with fresh eyes. Congratulations, Glenis — you are a treasure to the Palmetto State!