CFP: New England Environmental Education Conference

To CREATE: sustainable solutions, systems, designs, models, tools, jobs...

To CREATE: a sense of place, shared sense of purpose, partnerships, innovation, ecological & environmental literacy, bio-cultural diversity, personal health, healthy communities, fertile soil, prosperous economies...

To COLLABORATE: with nature, with each other, within communities, among diverse constituencies, across disciplines, around boundaries, beyond the usual alliances, through stewardship and citizenship, for quality of life, toward renewable energy systems and resilient food systems...

In short, to design our shared future.

Join us in Vermont in 2010 as we merge the New England Environmental Education Alliance (NEEEA) and Promise of Place (POP) conferences, bringing together a wide circle of people who, in some capacity in their work or recreation, connect people with the environment.  We ALL are educating about the environment— from town planners to public health workers, farmers to artists, engineers to hunters and sportsmen, builders and designers to land trusts and historians to energy innovators. We recognize that the unique overlaps of such groups are important in the security and health of our future environment. We all play a special role in catalyzing the learning that moves individuals of any age to act in their communities with care and understanding: to create, to cultivate, to collaborate.
Moving our communities toward sustainability requires all of us who are linked by the tendrils of place, a commitment to the health of the living world, and a vision of human communities thriving within the means of nature.

We welcome all those who see a role in designing our shared future to gather with us for three days in the beautiful Upper Valley of Vermont. Starting with this place as our context, we’ll share our learning, reflect on the work of many, and deepen our understanding. Even more importantly, we’ll build a shared foundation for action, to seize the potential for broad-based environmental literacy and place-based education to create models for authentic 21st century learning, to cultivate a sense of place, and to foster collaboration for sustainable solutions.

More information at: http://www.neeea.org/conference.html

WHEN: Ocotber 21-23, 2010
WHERE: Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, Vermont