Sprout Up Opens 2 New University Chapters!
EV is thrilled to announce that our Sprout Up college program is expanding! We have officially welcomed two new chapters this school year at UC Irvine and CSU Sacramento. These new additions will...
EV Interns Summer 2025
Summer 2025 was full of energy as we worked with 6 amazing interns through our Sprout Up program! Their knowledge as current Sprout Up instructors and leaders at their University chapters has been invaluable. We’re so grateful for their efforts to support in-person projects and events at the EV EcoCenter, update curriculum, improve chapter resources, and plan for our Sprout Up Leadership Retreat. To learn more about them, check out their takeovers on the Sprout Up Instagram!
A Successful EV and YCS Summer Partnership
EV partnered with YCS to engage youth in service and Baylands stewardship
Virtual Resources Available for Schools
Environmental Volunteers is committed to supporting schools, classes and students with quality environmental education experiences, even when normal life is disrupted, or in-person instruction isn't...
Environmental Actions
Environmental Actionsby: Natalie AmbrosioThey come in all shapes and sizes, but the important thing is that they keep coming in whatever form feasible. Here at the EV we watch what happens when...
Plastic Contamination: A Social-Cultural Issue
Plastic Contamination: A Social-Cultural IssuePeople and businesses use plastic items every day for convenience, but a social-cultural study proves that using too much plastic has negative effects...
Learning to Learn (and Teach) Online
Virtual School Program on Plants and their Parts for 1st gradeA little bit about meHello! My name is Morayo and I am the Education Intern this year! I’m a Junior at Santa Clara University studying...
Sustainable Art
Sustainable ArtPhoto by Roland Hipkins 1935 The environment has always been a prominent subject in all forms of art. Landscape paintings and wildlife photography are forms of art which capture what...
Our Current Efforts to Deliver New Environmental Education Initiatives to Students
Our Current Efforts to Deliver New Environmental Education Initiatives to StudentsHuddart Park Nature Walk 2021Happy Spring! All of us at Environmental Volunteers very much appreciate your support...
Unexpected Upsides of Virtual Programs
Unexpected Upsides of Virtual ProgramsPhoto by Montserrat SuarezI think most of us can agree that we’d prefer to work with students in person – that’s one of the main reasons we got into the field...
Soil health – watch and learn
Soil health – watch and learn“Kiss the Ground” summary: Kiss the Ground discussed the topic of climate change and how the Earth’s soil is able to draw tons of atmospheric carbon out of the air. It...
Science is No Heap of Stones
Science is No Heap of StonesI remember a rather passionate discussion I had with my mother (a former school teacher) early in my career about curriculum design. The question: are there certain...