ICIE's 2012 Idaho Earth Day: Students examine how the opportunities we have within our urban environment to interact with nature. 

What: ICIE's Annual Earth Day Art Contest Awards Ceremony
When: Thursday, April 26, 3:30 pm
Where: Foothills Learning Center, 3188 Sunset Peak Road, at the end of the 8th Street extension in Boise

Through this project, junior high and high school students learned that nature is not limited to places we visit outside our cities and towns.  People in cities surround themselves with parks, trees and gardens.  Cities develop and maintain parks, walking paths, street trees.  Businesses landscape with plants and trees.  Within the urban environment, we have numerous opportunities to interact with nature, students were challenged to represent their favorite locations within their neighborhood, city or town where they are surrounded by nature.

The purpose of ICIE's annual art contest is to encourage students to think about environmental issues beyond the rhetoric and express that using art and language. Winners receive gift certificates to local art supply shops.

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Elemental Idaho is Radio Boise's new weekly interview and news program featuring discussions on environmental issues and examining the facts relating to forming sound environmental public policy. It is produced by Idaho Council on Industry and the Environment.

Every week on we’re going to examine a different environmental issue specific to Idaho and the way we live, work, recreate in and interact with our natural environment.  

What We Do ... ICIE is a non-profit, non-partisan group formed in 1989 to focus discussion of the environment on the facts. Our goal is to create support for factual discussion of environmental issues, and to facilitate the use of sound science and facts in shaping public policy on them.

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