What's New - Summer 2008
Summer workshops for k-12 teahcers
Institute for Sustainability Education
Creative Change will co-facilitate the
annual Summer Institute for Sustainability Education sponsored
by the Children's
Environmental Literacy Foundation in Chappaqua, NY. This
year's institute is July 14-18th at Manhattanville College.
Click
here for information, or contact info@celfoundation.org
Science and Economics of Green Design
Creative Change is offering two workshops
on teaching product life cycles, environmental design, and ecological
economics. The sessions will prepare science and social studies
teachers to integrate materials science and environmental approaches
to economics into their curriculum.
Workshop dates and locations:
Food, Farming and Community Curriculum
Creative Change is developing a curriculum on sustainable food
systems as a part of Michigan
State University Museum’s Voices Project – an
on-line resource of materials to build greater understanding
about farmers, farming and food at the local level. The new
curriculum is aimed at adult learners and is designed for use
in informal settings in communities, introductory university
courses, and other educational settings. The materials will
be released on-line in August 2008.
The new curriculum will have six 1.5-hour sessions that address
a broad scope of sustainable agriculture issues, including personal
connections with food, the environmental "footprint"
of food production, price vs. cost, trends in agricultural,
and historic factors affecting today's food system. Each session
will engage learners in exploring a particular topic and enable
them to make connections between personal actions and regional
or global policies. Ideas for solutions and action steps are
woven throughout.
The Voices Project was created as a way to make the voices of
farmers come alive and stimulate discussion about the economic
and ecological sustainability issues contemporary agriculture
faces. Materials, available free at http://foodfarmingancommunity.org,
include a readers-theatre activity for informal, group reading
that can bring people together in a common experience, essays
on oral history, civic dialogue and how-to do readers’
theatre locally. Book club and film festival lists, promotion
materials, and other resources are also on the site.
Contact
us for information on any of these
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