Annual Excellence in Community Environmental Education and Outreach Awards

The awards are presented to organizations and individuals who have consistently supported environmental education programs and community events that promote environmental stewardship and resource conservation in eastern Idaho.

2011 Awards

The 2011 recipients of the 2011 EIEEA Excellence Award are local educator Julie Abbott, E-Cyclers, The Museum of Idaho, and East Side/West Side Soil and Water Conservation District.

Julie Abbott is currently a fourth grade teacher at Rimrock Elementary in Ammon. Julie shares her passion for the natural wonders around us with her students, encouraging them to gain an understanding of these wonders through understanding the science of how things work.

E-Cyclers is the result of a local company seeing a need, looking for a solution and not finding it, deciding to be the solution. They set out to come up with a better local solution to deal with one of the fastest growing waste types today, electronic waste.

The Museum of Idaho is honored for its outstanding contributions to, and tireless efforts for, the students and adults of southeastern Idaho. Countless hours of work from Executive Director David Pennock, the Museum’s Educators, and the Museum staff and volunteers have made the Museum of Idaho valuable community education center.

The East Side and West Side Soil and Water Conservation Districts are the local expression of the National Resources Conservation Service, The East Side and West Side Soil and Water Conservation District’s mission is to provide local landowners with the tools to best care for our most precious resources; our soil and water.


2010 Awards
The 2010 recipients of the EIEEA award are CH2M-WG Idaho, Battelle Energy Alliance, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project, and Idaho Fish and Game Regional Conservation Educator, Greg Losinski.

2009 Awards

The 2009 recipients of the EIEEA award are the City of Idaho Falls, the Post Register and Newspapers in Education, S. M. Stoller Corp., the Tautphaus Park Zoo, and the Department of Energy-Idaho Operations Office.