ABOUT NLENLE is a mission-driven company dedicated to providing science education resources and opportunities to learn about the natural world. Whether you are a learner wanting to expand your understanding, or an educator wanting to provide unique science learning opportunities to your students, NLE provides resources to individuals and organizations alike to help take science education to the next level.
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Our Vision is a Better Future Inspired by Nature
At NLE, we imagine a future in which all people are empowered by scientific literacy. By enhancing global scientific literacy, we hope to further our connection with and understanding of the natural world. It is our hope that by increasing our understanding of the world around us, we might be able to live more consciously and intentionally to build a future that better represents our hopes, desires, and dreams. Everything we do at NLE is guided by this vision.
Our Mission is Empowerment Through Education
Guided by our vision of a scientifically literate society, our mission is to provide learning opportunities to people everywhere about relevant topics of science. We work to accomplish our mission by developing print and digital content, engaging communities with science education opportunities, producing educational materials for educators, and providing learning resources to those seeking reliable information about topics related to environmental science, biology, botany, mycology, and natural products.
Our Values Are Simple
Scientific Literacy
According to the National Academy of the Sciences, "Scientific literacy is the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity."
An empowered citizenry must understand basic scientific concepts about the natural world and have the ability to find answers to questions that arise during one's experience of the world. We want to improve scientific literacy so that all people may be more empowered to make better decisions, develop better ideas, and achieve better lives.
Scientific Integrity and Critical Thinking
We support honest science and strive to teach others how to think critically about scientific topics and how to identify cognitive biases that may compromise learning and the enhancement of scientific literacy.
Systems Thinking
It is often the case in life that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." We don't just want people to learn trivial facts about the natural world. We want people to see how different things connect together to form a complex and delicate series of interconnected systems. We hope to bring greater awareness to the interconnected webs of life around us and how we can influence those systems.
Mindfulness
By enhancing scientific literacy, promoting scientific integrity and critical thinking, and connecting ideas through systems thinking, it is our conviction that people can live their lives with greater awareness of their perceptions, desires, intentions, and actions - ultimately leading to the cultivation of mindfulness and conscious living. We believe people can only make decisions that support their best interest if they have an adequate understanding of the systems of which they are apart. Through science education, we hope to do our part to support a more mindful society as a whole.
According to the National Academy of the Sciences, "Scientific literacy is the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity."
An empowered citizenry must understand basic scientific concepts about the natural world and have the ability to find answers to questions that arise during one's experience of the world. We want to improve scientific literacy so that all people may be more empowered to make better decisions, develop better ideas, and achieve better lives.
Scientific Integrity and Critical Thinking
We support honest science and strive to teach others how to think critically about scientific topics and how to identify cognitive biases that may compromise learning and the enhancement of scientific literacy.
Systems Thinking
It is often the case in life that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." We don't just want people to learn trivial facts about the natural world. We want people to see how different things connect together to form a complex and delicate series of interconnected systems. We hope to bring greater awareness to the interconnected webs of life around us and how we can influence those systems.
Mindfulness
By enhancing scientific literacy, promoting scientific integrity and critical thinking, and connecting ideas through systems thinking, it is our conviction that people can live their lives with greater awareness of their perceptions, desires, intentions, and actions - ultimately leading to the cultivation of mindfulness and conscious living. We believe people can only make decisions that support their best interest if they have an adequate understanding of the systems of which they are apart. Through science education, we hope to do our part to support a more mindful society as a whole.
