EPA Awards Over $80,000 to Adamah Detroit for Climate Education Program
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded $80,748 to Adamah Detroit (formerly known as Hazon Detroit) in Detroit, Michigan as part of the Environmental Education Grants Program. The funding will be used to support an interfaith climate education project.
“We know that climate change is one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time, and it demands bold and innovative solutions,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. “This year’s grant recipients represent some of the brightest minds from across the country, and they demonstrate what it means to couple the power of environmental education with a commitment to creating a future with clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet for all.”
“Climate impacts are affecting our daily lives like never before, yet research shows that a minority—just over 1 in 3—of us is talking about climate, even occasionally,” said Adamah Detroit Director Amit Weitzer. “Together as partners engaging diverse communities of faith, Adamah Detroit and Michigan Interfaith Power & Light are excited to use Climate Conversations as a tool to help congregations move through barriers, like feelings of powerlessness and doom, and put their collective love for Earth and their neighbors into action”.
Adamah Detroit and its partner, Michigan Interfaith Power & Light, will conduct an educational series that includes 20 climate workshops. More than 240 people will participate, with members drawn from synagogues, churches and other religious groups. This educational series will discuss the realities of climate change and its disproportionate impact on disadvantaged communities as well as provide a framework for individual and collective actions.
Since 1992, EPA has distributed between $2 million and $3.5 million in EE grant funding each year, for a total of over $91.3 million supporting more than 3,922 projects. The program traditionally provides financial support for projects that design, demonstrate or disseminate environmental education practices, methods or techniques. For more information, visit the Environmental Education webpage.
To learn more about current and past award winners, or to apply for future EE grant competitions, visit the Environmental Education Grants webpage. This page is updated as future competitions are announced and additional grants are awarded.