Center for Ecoliteracy at Work in Schools
Upcoming Center for Ecoliteracy Offerings
Rethinking the Latest News about Childhood Obesity
Michael Ableman Joins CEL as Farming & Agriculture Advisor
Center for Ecoliteracy in the News
Essay: Uncertain Peril, by Claire Hope Cummings
Center for Ecoliteracy at Work in Schools
The Center for Ecoliteracy has launched a new initiative with teachers, administrators, and trustees at Sonoma Country Day School to support the school's commitment to incorporate education for sustainability in its K-12 curriculum. The Center has been working with several schools, offering a vision of education for sustainability today, expertise in ecological principles and systems change, coaching in curriculum audit processes, identification of entry points for ecological education across the curriculum, and support for teachers in goal-setting and lesson development.
For more information about CEL services for schools, contact info@ecoliteracy.org
Upcoming Center for Ecoliteracy Offerings
The Center for Ecoliteracy is offering four new educational opportunities this summer and fall. An institute held in collaboration with the Bay Area Teacher Development Collaborative will focus on ways to introduce sustainability into K-12 classrooms. A special all-day pre-Bioneers conference intensive will explore best practices for "greening" schools, integrating ecological learning across the curriculum, and sustaining the natural and social communities in which schools exist. The Center will also offer professional development institutes in California and New York with Teachers College Columbia University on "Rethinking Food, Health, and the Environment: Making Learning Connections."
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Rethinking the Latest News about Childhood Obesity
"Is it good news that childhood obesity and overweight rates appear to have finally leveled off after a quarter-century of steady growth?" asks Zenobia Barlow, cofounder and executive director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, in an opinion piece about the latest Journal of the American Medical Association report on childhood obesity rates.
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Michael Ableman Joins CEL as New Farming and Agriculture Advisor
Acclaimed author, photographer, and farmer Michael Ableman has joined the Center for Ecoliteracy as farming and agriculture advisor. The founder of the Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens in southern California, Ableman currently runs the historic Foxglove Farm in British Columbia. His latest book is Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People who Grow It (Chronicle Books, 2005).
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Center for Ecoliteracy in the News
The Center for Ecoliteracy appeared in several news outlets in the past month, including Wildflower from the University of Texas at Austin; The Contra Costa Times; The Town Talk; Radish: Health Living from the Ground Up; and Greenrightnow.com
June Essay: Uncertain Peril, By Claire Hope Cummings
"All of my work has been guided by one central value: respect for the integrity of the natural world," Claire Hope Cummings writes in her new book, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds (Beacon Press, 2008). "This is what I have learned: if we can, even for a moment, pause and stop looking at the world through the lens of technology, then suddenly the beauty and wonder of nature reappear. Then we remember who we are and where we are, and the healing begins."
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