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Climate Change and Climate Stewards Initiative

September 23rd, 2019
By Eliot T Freutel
September marks a pivotal moment in climate change conversation and action and this week, September 20-27, is Climate Week - a time where people around the world are raising their voices to talk about what climate change means to them.
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2019 Pasadena City College graduates Ethan and Elexis show off their California Naturalist pins.
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Back to School with California Naturalist

September 6th, 2019
The days grow shorter and the temperatures are gradually getting cooler fall is approaching, and that means it's time for school to start! Teachers are getting their classrooms ready and students are getting fresh supplies to head back to school.
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Brenda Kyle, California Naturalist
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Collective Impact

September 6th, 2019
By Gregory C Ira
Brenda Kyle is a California NaturalistNaturalista Certificada as she likes to sayand does outreach with at least 1500 individuals from January to September in English and also leads nature walks in Spanish. I do not look like what people expect an "outdoor" person to look like. Says Brenda.
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This climate literacy word cloud shows the components of climate change education
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Curriculum gaps for adult climate literacy

August 28th, 2019
Text and image by guest blogger Olivia Cooper. Olivia is an undergraduate at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She worked with former California Naturalist founding director Dr. Adina Merenlender on the research presented in this blog post.
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Tide Pooling Along the Central Coast During the 2019 Regional Rendezvous

August 20th, 2019
By Eliot T Freutel
Our day started brisk and damp as the sun rolled out behind a curtain of central coast fog. We gathered in the grey light with our morning tea, dressed in warm clothes as the steam from our breath billowed out in front of laughter and conversation on the subject of tide pool safety and ecology.
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