Press Room

The Project Learning Tree® (PLT) Press Room is a resource for media, journalists, and communication professionals interested in learning more about environmental education in the United States. With more than 500,000 educators trained and using PLT environmental education materials in their classrooms, we can provide you with spokespersons, arrange interviews, discuss curriculum specifics, direct you to state or country PLT Coordinators, and provide additional information about PLT.

Developed in 1976, PLT helps students learn how to think, not what to think, about the environment. PLT, a program of the American Forest Foundation, partners with international, national, state and local partners. PLT is one of the most widely used environmental education programs in the United States and abroad.

Environmental Education Grants to Benefit Esurance Towns
Schools and Youth Groups Targeted in Arizona, California and Colorado

The American Forest Foundation and Esurance announced today that they will award grants to schools and youth groups for community-based learning projects focusing on the environment in three areas where Esurance has offices: Phoenix, AZ; Sacramento, CA; and Denver, CO.
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American Forest Foundation Receives Grant to Develop Model GreenSchools

As part of its Learn and Serve America 2008 Grants program, the Corporation for National and Community Service awarded a $611,353 grant to the American Forest Foundation's GreenSchools! program to infuse service-learning into Project Learning Tree.
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Project Learning Tree in the News!

A recent article in Newsweek discussed the importance of incorporating sustainability into education and how eco-education does not necessarily have to be expensive. Project Learning Tree was suggested as an ideal program to reach those objectives.
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News Coverage in Louisiana

The article in Newsweek generated local news coverage on KTAL out of Shreveport, Louisiana. The news clip features Brenda Smith (Project Learning Tree Outstanding Educator in 2006), Cindy Kilpatrick, and Mike Irvin along with students engaged in PLT lessons in the outdoors!
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Environmental Education Saves the Day

Becoming a Project Learning Tree (PLT)-certified school unified faculty, boosted student achievement, and saved one school from closure.
 
Read the full article (PDF, 500KB) published in the April 2007 issue of NSTA's Science & Children magazine.