| | Daniel Clancy | | Former President, Wisconsin Technical College System, 2011 | |  | | "As the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) celebrates its centennial in 2011, we look with excitement to our future. Over our next hundred years, Wisconsin’s 16 technical colleges will further their strong history as a doorway to better opportunities and higher wages that help Wisconsinites improve our quality of life including protecting our incredible natural resources. The technical colleges’ emphasis on developing and offering programs that benefit Wisconsin, such as new renewable energy and green technologies programs and incorporating green practices and principles into existing programs and facilities, has always been—and will always be—at the core of the WTCS mission. We are proud to work as a partner with the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board in our efforts to offer education and training that protects the future of Wisconsin’s natural resources." |
| | | Matthew J. Frank | | Former Secretary, Department of Natural Resources, 2011 | |  | | "Gaylord Nelson, favorite son of Wisconsin and father of
Earth Day, said that the most important environmental issue was
instilling a conservation ethic in our culture. People protect what they
love, and providing children with early and frequent outdoors
experiences has a direct impact on their future conservation ethic and
the preservation of our natural resources.
The work we do at the Department of Natural Resources to
protect and enhance our state's great outdoors requires an educated
citizenry that is both knowledgeable and willing to take action on
behalf of the environment. The Wisconsin Environmental Education Board
helps meet this need.
WEEB remains a strong ally in ensuring that Wisconsin's natural resources are protected for generations to come." |
| | | | Elizabeth Burmaster | | Former Superintendent, Department of Public Instruction, 2009 | |  | | "Our New Wisconsin Promise advances a well-educated
citizenry as the foundation of our strong democracy and healthy economy.
Our students must be prepared to participate in the social, economic
and civic life of their community, and cultural and environmental
literacy are central to being good citizens in our 21st century
interconnected world. Programs promoted by the Wisconsin Environmental
Education Board (WEEB) contribute to our efforts by promoting global and
environmental literacy, and environmental stewardship. While learning
about the environment through WEEB programs, students often perform even
better because they feel empowered, are actively engaged in their own
learning, and are challenged to make decisions about the environment.
Traveling to schools and communities across our state, I see
students learning the importance of being good stewards of our
environment. Environmental literacy is fundamental to the future
well-being of our state and is grounded in our state’s history of
environmental stewardship, a lasting legacy of Gaylord Nelson’s
lifework. The partnership and collaboration between the Department of
Public Instruction and the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board helps
to promote a quality environmental education for every child in
Wisconsin." |
| | | P. Scott Hassett | | Former Secretary, Department of Natural Resources, 2005 | |  | | "It's important that children and adults have amble
opportunities to spend time outdoors to maintain our connection with
nature. The Wisconsin Environmental Education Board, through its
leadership and grants program, has helped people of all ages in hundreds
of schools and organizations learn more about the environment,
experience the outdoors, and get involved in protecting and enjoying our
abundant natural resources.
Our mission at the Department of Natural Resources is to
protect and enhance Wisconsin's natural resources. To do that, Wisconsin
needs an educated citizenry that is both knowledgeable and willing to
take action on behalf of the environment. The Wisconsin Environmental
Education Board helps meet this need.
I am proud of the accomplishments of the board and strongly support WEEB's programs." |
| | | | Richard Carpenter | | Former President, Wisconsin Technical College System, 2003 | |  | | "When my wife and I moved from Alabama to Wisconsin a short
time ago after being selected to led the Wisconsin Technical College
System, I was impressed by the quality and concern for the natural
environment. Wisconsin parks, lakes, nature centers, woodlands, wetlands
and contoured farm lands are much of what makes Wisconsin so attractive
to so many people and certainly to us
Conservation mindedness, however, is not to be taken for
granted. Overall we are a comparatively wasteful people. In the big
scheme of things, wasteful behaviors related to our natural environment
can lead to indifference and decline in many area of our lives and our
capacity for healthful lifestyles and citizen responsibility.
It has been the commitment of our college faculties, program
leaders, students, industries and communities to, as our system vision
statement says, “…develop individuals who apply knowledge and skills to
enhance quality of life and boost economic vitality.
Quality of life is about more than dollars and meaningful
work, it is citizenship, environmental stewardship and finding value in
all things, great and small in the natural environment so necessary in
our increasingly fast-paced world. Investments of time and resources to
make it possible to conduct the grants program and to carry out the
mission of WEEB through the schools and non-profit organizations across
the state are well placed. I congratulate every single individual that
has made, through WEEB, a commitment to advancing environmental
education. The projects are fabulous! The outcomes will last more than a
lifetime." |
| | | Katharine Lyall | | Former President, University of Wisconsin System, 2003 | |  | | "Education. It is at the heart of everything we do. The UW
System and the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board have long
recognized the importance of providing educational opportunities to the
state’s business leaders, government officials, and citizens.
Collaborative efforts among these constituencies, made possible via WEEB
grant funding, have facilitated the identification and implementation
of creative, economically feasible solutions to a variety of
environmental concerns. The UW System supports restoring the WEEB grant
program budget to historical levels so that Wisconsin citizens can
continue to receive the highest quality educational services and
programs." |
| | | | Darrell Bazzell | | Former Secretary, Department of Natural Resources, 2001 | |  | | "Wisconsin is blessed with abundant natural resources. Our
forests, agricultural lands, wetlands, rivers and streams directly or
indirectly provide a livelihood and sense of place for our citizens.
Better water, air and land use; better and more coordinated resource
management; and, an everyday commitment from all of us to use our
natural resources wisely and prevent their contamination will assure the
quality of Wisconsin's natural resources for the future.
The Department of Natural Resources supports the Wisconsin
Environmental Education Board on its efforts to provide leadership in
the development of quality learning opportunities for our children,
teachers and citizens. As a result of the WEEB supported programs and
other educational efforts, Wisconsin citizens feel deeply a stewardship
for natural resources and a responsibility for passing a clean
environment on to our children. Ultimately, an educated citizenry is
what has and will continue to protect the special place we call home.
The WEEB programs will assure that this tradition continues in
Wisconsin." |
| | | John T. Benson | | Former Superintendent, Department of Public Instruction, 1999 | |  | | "The Wisconsin Environmental Education Board Grants Program
has enabled school districts across the state to foster and expand the
environmental education components of their curriculum. The diversity of
projects undertaken attests to the creativity, ingenuity and
resourcefulness of the dedicated professionals we call "teachers."
These initiatives have enabled students and staff opportunities to
obtain the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to undertake a
balanced analysis of social, economic and ecological needs.
I applaud the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board for
funding the development and publication of the Wisconsin's Model
Academic Standards for Environmental Education. This document defines
the criteria by which one can judge the quality of environmental
education programs, and due to the WEEB Grants Program, those occurring
in Wisconsin schools are among the finest in the nation. " |
| | | | George Meyer | | Former Secretary, Department of Natural Resources, 1999 | |  | | "The mission of the Department of Natural Resources includes
the statement, "To work with people to understand each other's views
and to carry out the public will. And in this partnership consider the
future and generations to follow." This ties in nicely with the mission
of the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board. It is a
forward-looking perspective that helps insure decisions made today do
not adversely effect our environment of the future. I commend the WEEB
on its efforts to help citizens to learn to investigate all sides of
environmental issues and how to resolve these issues in a balanced way.
The WEEB continues to make a significant impact by providing venues for
public education, communication, and participation in the resolution of
environmental issues. Ultimately, an educated and skilled public is our
best guarantee of generating creative solutions that will provide for
environmental stewardship, a strong, sustainable economy, and a high
quality of life here in Wisconsin." |
| | | C.D. "Buzz" Besadny | | Former Secretary, Department of Natural Resources, 1991 | |  | | "Solving the environmental problems of the 90's and beyond
will require everyone's involvement. Education will help us think about
and understand the environmental consequences of our everday acatins and
help us find solutions to problems. Education will help us change our
lifestyles: to recycle, to live in energy-efficient homes, to drive
fuel-efficient cars, and to use environmentally safe consumer products.
Through education, we will prepare ourselves to make 'earth-friendly'
choices as men and women, girls and boys, employees, parents, students,
consumers, voters, business persons, and owners of private property.
This education, will begin at birth and continue for a lifetime, and
will rely on home, workplace, schools, other public facilities, and the
land itself as classrooms." |
| | | | Herbert J. Grover | | Former Superintendent, Department of Public Instruction, 1991 | |  | | "Stewardship of our environment requires knowledge,
attitudes, and skills that are based on a commitment to shaping the
world in which we life through thoughtful and active participation. It
calls for a perspective which acknowledges that each of our actions has
an effect on the entire global ecosystem. Teachers everywhere are the
key in helping all students realize it is a collective responsibility to
preserve and cherish our home, this precious planet Earth." |
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