CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
for Oct 2008 conference... (deadline is April 7, 2008)

If you would like to present a workshop at this year's conference, please download the submission guidelines in pdf format. Proposals should be submitted to Wendy Schorr at gaia12345@hotmail.com with “workshop proposal NEEEA 2008” in the subject line. Call Ruth Smith (603-783-4656) or Wendy Schorr (603-634-3315) with questions.

More and more people are acknowledging that if we continue with business as usual, an environmental crisis await us. We are confronting an ecological tipping point and a fundamental challenge: how to create a new and balanced way of living. At the heart of this challenge lies an imperative to apply the concepts of community, environment and individual values. Ecological systems provide an ideal example of connectedness and interdependence needed for strong communities. The NEEEA 2008 conference will take a close look at strategies for coming home to a community built around basic ecological principles. Conference strands will explore approaches for creating and nurturing communities through systems thinking. Opportunities for exchange with groups outside the usual EE circle will help us explore ways to bring about change in our own backyards.

2008 Conference Strands:

1. The Built Community

• Green Schools
• Green infrastructure
• Alternative technologies
• Climate change
• Recent research

2. Cultivating Communities

• Developing leadership
• Building coalitions
• Working with unlikely partners
• Building social capital
• Instigating behavioral change
• Working with the educational system
• Media: problem or partner?

3. Ecology of Communities

• People and the Environment
• Sense of place
• Natural history
• Reaching new audiences
• 7 Basic ecological principles
• Ecological footprint
• Climate change
  

You can download a PDF version of this information here.

REGISTRATION FOR THE 2008 CONFERENCE WILL BE AVAILABLE HERE AT A LATER DATE.

Want a sense of what NEEEA conferences are like? View the photo slideshow from the 2007 NEEEA Conference planned and hosted by Maine Environmental Education Association.