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EENC's 17th Annual Conference:
EE for a LIFETIME
October 26-28, 2007
in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
Mark your calendar for October 25-28, 2007, for our 17th
Annual Conference, held this year in North
Carolina’s beautiful mountain region.
Our
conference theme, EE for a Lifetime, reflects the current interest in
the impacts of daily living choices and in the opportunities to connect
EE with other outreach efforts in our communities. Our conference
threads will weave this theme throughout the weekend:
Connect with Sustainable lifestyle choices: From food miles to carbon footprints to green housing, sustainability is front-page news.
Connect with EE and Faith-Based Audiences: explore the common ground between spiritual values and environmental values, and what these connections can mean for EE.
Connect with the Community
-- health and wellness...neighborhood pride...social
justice...environmental action. Aligning with local concerns puts
EE where the action is.
Connect with Nature:
enjoy beautiful Western North Carolina. Check out our conference
venue at www.lutheridgeconferencecenter.com. Or, take a photo
tour of the WNC scenery that awaits you at www.highcountryimages.com
Connect Across Generations -- babies to boomers, and beyond -- EE for lifelong learning.
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TWO KEYNOTE PANELS:
SUSTAINABILITY
The
Sustainability panel will feature local experts giving us an overview
of sustainability issues and strategies, local to global in scope, for
air, energy, transportation, food, and water. We'll examine these
issues from ecological and problem-solving perspectives, and then
examine what we as environmental educators can do to promote and
support sustainable action on various levels.
EE AND FAITH-BASED AUDIENCES
This thread is intended to help EE
professionals reach a potentially powerful and perhaps untapped
audience – members of communities of faith whose religious values
include planetary care. While EE professionals are often
well-versed in the teachings and values (avenues of outreach) of their
own personal religions, many are not well-informed about the potential
avenues of outreach to members of other religions. The
Faith-Based Audiences thread is an effort to provide training for EE
professionals to help them understand religions other than their own,
in order to expand the potential audience for EE programming throughout
the state. Through the keynote panel, local religion experts will
share with conference participants the areas of common ground that
exist between religious teachings and environmental stewardship and
conservation – on-ramps for community action to protect the
environment. We are striving to include on the panel as many
different religions as possible that are actually practiced in North
Carolina. By understanding the extent to which various religions
teach or include stewardship values, we can better appeal to these
audiences in our EE efforts.
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Bonus Breakfast Keynote – NAAEE BOARD REPRESENTATIVE
The North American Association for
Environmental Education (NAAEE) is the national EE organization, of
which we are an affiliate. NAAEE is providing critical national
leadership in efforts to include prioritization of and funding for EE
in the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind act, currently
pending in Congress. This effort, dubbed No Child Left Inside, is
a major national initiative, and would be a milestone accomplishment in
expanding and supporting EE in schools throughout the country.
NAAEE will share with us the details of this effort, how we as local
environmental educators may benefit, and how we as individuals and as
an organization can help.
Participation
in the conference, from Friday evening through Sunday noon, qualifies
for 10 hours of Criteria III credit toward NC-EE Certification.
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