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Environmental Program Evaluation

EPE Week: Annelise Carleton-Hug on Evaluating Your Own Environmental Impact

Hello! I’m Annelise Carleton-Hug, principle partner of Trillium Associates, a research, evaluation and consulting company serving clients with programs involving the intersections of environment, education and communities. In this post, I challenge you to evaluate how you can make your own lifestyle more ecologically conscious. Greendex, a study of 17 countries by National Geographic, currently …

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EPE Week: Matt Keene, Alex Ortega-Argueta, Lieven De Smet, and Lisa Eriksson on The Environmental Evaluators Network in 2012

My name is Matt Keene; I work with the US Environmental Protection Agency and coordinate the Environmental Evaluators Network. The purpose of the EEN is to advance the field of environmental evaluation through more systematic and collective learning. Founded in 2006, the EEN is comprised of conservation, and natural resource evaluators and evaluation consumers from academia, consulting, …

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EPE Week: Valerie Williams on Evaluating Environmental Education Programs

My name is Valerie Williams and I am a Program Evaluator at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). One of the programs I work with is Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE), a worldwide, K-12 environmental science and education program. Many environmental education programs struggle with the question of whether environmental …

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EPE Week: Anna Williams on The False Dichotomy Between “Environmental” and “Social”

Hi. I am Anna Williams, a Senior Associate at Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting in Seattle, Washington. I have devoted the past 20 years to solving complex environmental-social issues. I use the words “environmental-social” here intentionally: Fundamentally both “environmental” and “social” challenges – and their solutions – are the same. An independent evaluation I conducted …

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EPE Week: Tina Phillips on Developing Validated Scales

Hello! My name is Tina Phillips and I am the evaluation program manager at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I lead an NSF-funded project called DEVISE (Developing, Validating and Implementing Situated Evaluations), which is aimed at providing practitioners and evaluators with tools to assess individual learning outcomes from citizen science, or public participation in scientific …

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EPE Week: Yvonne Watson on Mission Possible: Evaluation Capacity Building at EPA

Hi everyone! I’m Yvonne M. Watson, a Program Analyst in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Evaluation Support Division (ESD). As chair of the American Evaluation Association’s Environmental Program Evaluation Topical Interest Group, I invite you to learn more about evaluation and environmental issues this week. Evaluation units across the federal government vary in …

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APC Week: Anna Williams on When is a policy “win” real? Why does this matter when evaluating policy advocacy?

Hi. I’m Anna Williams, Senior Associate at Ross & Associates Environmental Consulting, in Seattle, Washington. Advocates, their funders, and policy advocacy evaluators seek to understand the results of policy advocacy work. Advocates promote the adoption (or reversal) of government policies, and many use the term “wins” to refer to successful milestones in their advocacy work. …

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EPE TIG Week: Annelise Carleton-Hug on Greening Your Evaluation Practice

I’m Annelise Carleton-Hug, principal evaluator of Trillium Associates, a small evaluation company with a focus on environmental program evaluation. I’m also the Chair of the Environmental Program Evaluation TIG and I invite you to learn more about our TIG by visiting the EPE TIG website. Hot Tip: Consider this aea365 post a conversation starter that …

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EPE TIG Week: Marjorie McRae on Tips for Evaluating Energy Efficiency Programs

Hello. I’m Marjorie McRae, a Principal with Research Into Action ,Inc., a firm that specializes in process evaluation and market research for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. Repeated process evaluations and market research studies are great tools for supporting continuous improvement of efficiency and renewable programs. Yet some program administrators think, “It’s too early …

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EPE TIG Week: Michel Ehrlich on Monitoring Legislation

My name is Michel Ehrlich and I am the Publisher of EU Issue Tracker. We provide regulatory monitoring and tracking services, looking at European Union (EU) regulation and policy, and we cover several major policy areas including Environment, Energy, Transport, and others. There are, of course, a large number of people, in a wide variety …

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