South Bay
Serving Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties
Welcome to CREEC Region 5
CHECK OUT THE  Spring 2010 Newsletter 
The California Regional Environmental Education Community (CREEC) Network is an educational project supported by the California Department of Education, Environmental Education Program, in collaboration with the state, regional and local partners. The CREEC Network is the best source for Environmental Education resources in California.
Our online, searchable Resource Directory includes Environmental Education providers and programs/resources available to educators in your area. Please look at our Calender and find environmental education activities and exhibits, funding opportunities, and teacher professional development opportunities. Lets stay connected, please contact me if you have questions or ideas surrounding environmental education in the South Bay.
Charity Mulkey
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News in the World of Environmental Education
Education and Environment Initiative
California is currently poised to lead the nation in
environmental literacy with the Education and Environment
Initiative (EEI). More can and should be done to understand our
relationship with the environment, and we believe the best place
to begin is in California’s classrooms. With education and a
thriving economy at the forefront of the state’s priorities,
California’s landmark EEI Curriculum is a national model
designed to help prepare today’s students to become future
scientists, economists, and green technology leaders. Learn more at: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/Education/EEI/default.htm
 Many pressing and complex issue threaten human health, economic development, and national security. Finding wide-spread agreement about what specific steps we need to take to solve these problems is difficult. Environmental education will help ensure our nation's children have the knowledge and skills necessary to address these complex issues. To find out more about the importance of Environmental Education and how you can help go to http://www.eenclb.org.
The 26th Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day
Saturday, September 25, 2010California Coastal Cleanup Day is the premier
volunteer event focused on the marine
environment in the country. In 2009, more than 80,600 volunteers worked together to collect more than
1,300,000 pounds of trash and recyclables from our beaches, lakes, and waterways.
California Coastal Cleanup Day has been hailed by the Guinness Book of World Records
as "the largest garbage collection" (1993). Since the program started in 1985, over
800,000 Californians have removed more than 14 million pounds of debris from our
state's shorelines and coast. When combined with the International Coastal Cleanup,
organized by The Ocean Conservancy
and taking place on the same day, California Coastal Cleanup Day becomes part of one of the
largest volunteer events of the year.
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Get out this summer and participate in a Clean-Up.
San Lorenzo River Cleanup- Saturday June 12, 9am-12pm Moran Lake Beach-Saturday June 19, 9am- 12pm
For more info: http://saveourshores.org/ ;
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