about

Environmental Education for the Next Generation (EENG) was born out of the environmental education campaign of UC Santa Barbara’s Environmental Affairs Board (EAB), the central student environmental group on campus. In 2006, EAB began teaching weekly lessons at nearby Isla Vista Elementary school. All curriculum was planned, organized, and taught by enthusiastic undergraduate students seeking to positively affect the lives of youth in the Santa Barbara community. Ryland King and Teal Riege were elected to head up the environmental education campaign in the spring of 2008. Inspired by the profound impact the interactive youth-to-youth program had on participants and volunteer instructors alike, Ryland was inspired to expand the program to reach more young people in the Santa Barbara area. Ryland and his dedicated team of directors founded Environmental Education for the Next Generation in the summer of 2009, and have been working to formalize and spread the program since. EENG has developed a 24-lesson curriculum, and is now in the process of starting the program in more Santa Barbara schools. EENG’s curriculum was approved by Goleta Union School District Superintendent Kathleen Boomer in early 2010. For a complete list of current schools in which we operate, please click here.