John Muir Laws shares his recent underwater adventures in the Sea of Cortez with the Nature Journal Educators Forum. Kate Righter shares her experiences snorkeling in Hawai’i and important takeaways to keep your participants safe. (Class recording from 30 Apr. 2025) June 9th is Coral Triangle Day! Ask your friends who snorkel about the importance Read More
Category: Stewardship
Conservation and stewardship of Nature.
Nature Journaling: How to Reclaim Your Attention & Sense of Place with John Muir Laws
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” —Mary Oliver Join me and the Aldo Leopold Foundation for an exciting discussion on how to start your own nature journal, phenology, and the neuroscience behind journaling—plus, live demonstrations! For or author and naturalist John Muir Laws, attention is love. When constant headlines, advertisements, Read More
Artivism for African Penguins (Jan. 23, 2025)
Join John Muir Laws, Nature Journal South Africa (NJSA), and Dr. Katta Ludynia, Research Manager at SANCCOB (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds) to learn about African Penguins and how to use our nature journals as tools for artivism for their conservation. Oh yes, there are penguins in Africa, now. But they Read More
Urban Beavers in Martinez: Art & Conservation (May 15, 2025)
Join John Muir Laws and Heidi Perryman as we explore beaver conservation, why beavers are important parts of ecosystems and how to draw these amazing creatures. (Class recording 15 May 2025) Heidi Perryman, Ph.D., is a child psychologist who became an accidental beaver advocate when beavers moved into her hometown in 2006. She served on Read More
From Geeking Out in Nature to Bridging Political Divides
Join me on the Climate Swings podcast! John Muir Laws works across vast political and socio-cultural divides to bring the joy of nature journaling to audiences around the world. In his journey, which took him from roaming the Sierra Nevadas to sparking an artistic movement, he demonstrates that the best way to succeed in difficult Read More
Journaling Situational Awareness, Weather, and Nature’s Unfolding Stories (Apr. 11, 2024)
Miriam Morrill, author of Pyrosketchology: An Illustrated Guide to Observing and Journaling about the Fire Environment, gives an introduction and examples to journaling wind observations for enhancing situational awareness (personal safety planning) and examples for using temperature and humidity metadata for observing the intimate relationships and between weather and phenology (unfolding nature stories). Class session Read More
NJEF: Make Your Own Field Guide (Nov. 1, 2023)
The Nature Journal Educator’s Forum welcomes guests Rachael Robbins and two of her students as we learn about a special project they did with their class: creating a local ecosystem field guide! Rachael Robbins is a fifth grade teacher at Bay View Elementary in Burlington, Washington. She uses nature journaling with her students to connect Read More
NJEF: Educational Programs at a Land Conservancy (Apr. 10, 2024)
This week, our special guest Tara Laidlaw shares with us about the programs she has developed for kids using nature journaling with the Southern Oregon Land Conservancy. Tara shares about her programs, her school visits that help to set the tone for the field, the transformative field trips her students embark on with her, and Read More
Data Visualization with Miriam Morrill (Aug. 10, 2023)
How can we learn to think in pictures? Join John Muir Laws and fire ecologist Miriam Morrill for an exploration of Miriam’s incredible practices of visualizing data from fire in her journals. (Session date 8/10/2023) Read More
Cheetahs – Conservation and Art (Dec. 4, 2023)
John Muir Laws, Jess Sorrentino of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, and Marcia Sivek of the Cheetah Conservation Fund and the BeProvided Conservation Radio Podcast discuss current efforts in Cheetah conservation and what we can do to help the species. (Class of Dec. 4th, 2023) Explore aspects of the cheetah’s anatomy, structure, and patterns to draw Read More