Independent Commission on Environmental Education

The Independent Commission on Environmental Education (ICEE) was a now-defunct K Street project of the George C. Marshall Institute ; it was succeeded by the Environmental Literacy Council.

Personnel
The ICEE reportedly had a ten-member panel, listed as: ,
 * Robert L. Sproull, Commission Chairman, Emeritus President and Professor of Physics, University of Rochester.
 * John F. Disinger, Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Resources and the Department of Educational Studies, Ohio State University.
 * Nicholas Eberstadt, Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute and Visiting Fellow, Center for Population Studies, Harvard University.
 * Michael Glantz, Senior Scientist and Director, Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado.
 * Thomas G. Moore, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
 * George M. Gray, Deputy Director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard University School of Public Health.
 * Stanford S. Penner, Professor Emeritus of Engineering Physics and Director Emeritus of the Center for Energy and Combustion Research, University of California, San Diego.
 * Roger Sedjo, Senior Fellow and Director of the Forest Economics and Policy Program, Resources for the Future.
 * Frederick Seitz, Professor Emeritus, Rockefeller University, and past President of the National Academy of Sciences.
 * Daniel Simberloff, Professor of Biology, Florida State University.

(In contrast - and probably incorrectly - the ExxonSecrets page for ICEE lists just six, with only one person common to both lists: Thomas Gale Moore, Patrick J. Michaels, Robert C. Balling Jr., Frederick Seitz, Paul C. Knappenberger, and Robert E. Davis; Knappenberger has said the ExxonSecrets list is incorrect.)

Actions
ICEE reviewed and made recommendations on "improvements" to textbooks dealing with environmental education, usually recommending alterations designed to weaken the arguments.

Report - Are We Building Environmental Literacy?
For example, the committee recommended that the more drastic effects of global warming be emphasized as being only theoretical, reliant on "computer models" that are being "constantly updated" (so, presumably, unreliable?), and that students should be taught that "any efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the industrialized countries will be overtaken in the next few decades by greenhouse gas emissions arising from rapidly industrializing nations, especially in Southeast Asia," essentially denying that first-world leadership in at least reducing the growth rate of greenhouse emissions would have any effect on worldwide adoption of such standards.

Aftermath: the Environmental Literacy Council
Upon publication of this 1997 report, the ICEE was disbanded and its successor the Environmental Literacy Council came into being - as the ELC page notes, at the same address and apparently with virtually the same personnel.

Contact
The ICEE's address was: 1730 K Street NW Suite 905 (listed as Suite 502 in ExxonSecrets factsheet ) Washington, DC 20006 It is unclear if the ICEE ever had a website; their 1997 report was promoted by the Marshall Institute and hosted on the Marshall.org website.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Global warming
 * Environmental Literacy Council
 * Marshall Institute
 * Jeffrey Salmon

External articles

 * Dr. Jeffrey Salmon, "Our Response to the Sierra Club Attack on Environmental Education", Marshall Institute, May 22, 1998.
 * Dr. Jeffrey Salmon, "We're All 'Corporate Polluters' Now", Marshall Institute, July 2, 1997. (This appeared as an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on July 2, 1997.)