New McKeever Food Service Menus

The McKeever Culinary staff is pleased to welcome you to McKeever Environmental Learning Center. We have provided exciting and varied menu options for you to choose from. In addition to the listed selections, we will work with you to accommodate any special requests.

Whether you are planning to attend one of our reputable educational programs, renting the center for weekend use, or celebrating a special event, food selection will be an important part of your decision making process. McKeever Environmental Learning Center has a variety of menus designed to meet the needs of all our users.

Menus

School Menu

Rentals, Conferences and Retreats Menu 

Breaks, Boxed Lunches, and Backyard Buffet Menu

Please contact us if you have any questions.

A World of 7 Billion

Before the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 2011, planet earth will have on board 7 billion humans. Seven billion is so difficult to grasp. The rate of adding people to planet earth is 4 people every second, 262 every minute and 15,735 every hour. There’s no doubt that people have an impact on the planet and its natural systems of life. How we interact with these systems of life directly impacts the very things that support our lives – air, water and soil. Our use of fossil fuel energy has had a tremendous impact on the environment. One only needs to look back at the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Gulf oil spill and most recently the Yellowstone River oil spill.

With an increasing population, comes an increase in use of fossil fuel energy and material resources. How we use energy and materials will determine what kind of planet we leave our children and future generations.

Population Connection has launched a project ‘World of 7 Billion.’ Since 1975, they have developed age-appropriate, value-neutral curricula to complement students’ science and social science instruction about human population trends and their impacts on natural resources, environmental quality and human well-being. Classroom activities are relevant to national and state-level content standards and all are matched to the content standards for a range of subject areas.

To assess these materials visit www.worldof7billion.org.

Welcome!

Welcome to the new McKeever Environmental Learning Center website!  It’s been a long time coming, but our new website is up.  We’ve made tremendous improvements all across the board.

Don’t forget to sign up for our electronic version of Hemlock Pathways, the McKeever Environmental Learning Center’s newsletter.  Hemlock Pathways is a seasonal newsletter that has always gone out by snail mail.  Now it’s available electronically.  We’ll also send out any other important updates to subscribers, but we promise not to get carried away with emails.

Let us know what you think of the new website by leaving a comment below.  We welcome all feedback. If you have any questions, just ask.

Have a great week!