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When Bridgestone Americas built a new truck tire manufacturing plant in Warren County, Tennessee, the company planned to make it the most advanced tire plant in the world. Tim Bent, the former director of environmental affairs for Bridgestone, explains that the plant had progressive management for energy efficiency, operational teamwork, advanced maintenance, and self-management, all of which were the norm and not the exception. The plant manager was, in Tim’s estimation, one of the best leaders ever. He inspired his staff and supported innovation. Under this leadership he created an enlightened workplace across all aspects of operations and nonessential activities. When it came to introducing nature-based efforts at the plant, the existing enabling environment fostered the development of an award-winning educational program that met a critical community need.
I believe that it’s vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air.
—JAYNI CHASE, CONSERVATION EDUCATOR
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Susan Strife and L. Downey, “Childhood Development and Access to Nature,” Organization and Environment 22 (2009): 99–122, https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026609333340.
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Ibid., 13.
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“Connecting Youth to Nature Survey,” National Recreation and Parks Association, 2018.
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Janice L. Woodhouse and Clifford E. Knapp, Place-Based Curriculum and Instruction: Outdoor and Environmental Education Approaches (Charleston, WV: ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, 2000).
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See, for example: Anna Leach, “Improving Children’s Access to Nature Starts with Addressing Inequality, The Guardian, March 1, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2018/mar/01/improving-childrens-access-nature-addressing-inequality-bame-low-income-backgrounds.
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Strife and Downey, “Childhood Development and Access to Nature,” 8.
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Woodhouse and Knapp, “Place-Based Curriculum and Instruction.”
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Yi Xue and Richard C. Larson, “STEM Crisis or STEM Surplus? Yes and Yes,” Monthly Labor Review 138, no. 5 (2015), https://doi.org/10.21916/mlr.2015.14.
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O’Gorman, M. (2020). Education. In: Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-941-8_7
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