What is MEEA?

Mid-peninsula Environmental Educators Alliance (MEEA) is an informal association of environmental educators who together maximize resources and achieve common goals. The member organizations are located in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Members meet on a monthly basis to discuss topics of common interest.

Who is eligible for membership?

Anyone involved in environmental education, nature interpretation and outdoor programming throughout the Peninsula and South Bay.

How to become a member

Contact MEEA list administrator, Toby Goldberg of Environmental Volunteers, at toby@environmentalvolunteers.org to provide your name, organization, and qualifications.

Once eligibility has been established, please complete the MEEA Membership Application and send it along with your dues to the Environmental Volunteers (the fiduciary agent for MEEA). Dues help finance meetings, speakers, and resources. If you can't pay dues now, please let us know.

Calendar

See the MEEA calendar for a list of meetings and activities. Note: If you are a Google calendar user, contact Toby Goldberg at toby@environmentalvolunteers.org if you would like us to to share this calendar so it will appear as part of your calendar.

Current members

MEEA members come from a wide variety of organizations in the Bay Area including these and more:

• Environmental Volunteers - fiduciary agent and list administrator

• Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society (SCVAS) - web host

• Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District - list administrator

• Bay Area Wilderness Training

• California Regional Environmental Education Community (CREEC) Network

• Canopy of Palo Alto

• Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose

• City of Cupertino Department of Parks and Recreation

• Deer Hollow Farm

• Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge -

• Guadalupe River Park Conservancy

• Grassroots Ecology

• Happy Hollow Park & Zoo

• Hidden Villa

• Junior Explorers at Friends of Edgewood Natural Preserve

• Marine Science Institute

• Open Space Authority of Santa Clara Valley (OSA)

• Santa Clara County Parks

• Santa Clara Valley Water District

• Save the Redwoods League

• Shoreline at Mountain View

• Walden West (Santa Clara County Office of Education) and the Abby Sobrato Science and Sustainability Center at Walden West

• Youth Science Institute (YSI)

Resources

Important online educational and references:

• Managing Environmental Education and COVID-19

• Santa Clara County Office of Education

• San Mateo County Office of Education

• California Department of Education Student Poverty - FRPM Data

• California EPA Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI)

• Common Core State Standards Initiative

• Next Generation Science Standards

• California State Science Standards (1998)

• California Regional Environmental Education Community (CREEC) Network

• MEAA Meeting Summaries