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[I Ortega]

--- Karen <kwerner at montaguema.net> wrote:

> Call for Presentations
> 
> Action in Place: Promoting Community and
> Environmental Sustainability
> 
> October 6-9, 2005
> Goddard College
> Plainfield, Vermont
> 
>  DEADLINE May 31, 2005
> 
> Join us to celebrate and learn from the experiences
> of those involved in 
> community-based initiatives to promote
> environmental, economic, and 
> community sustainability. While globalism is an
> undeniable force in our 
> lives, projects rooted in specific places, cultures,
> and diverse communities are 
> pockets of hope for democratic and social action.
> These educational and 
> activist projects, while often modest in their
> scope, are multifaceted in 
> their approaches. Traditional boundaries between
> environmental, cultural, 
> social, and economic issues and constituencies may
> dissolve as activists 
> engage with the day-to-day issues that transcend
> these categories.
> 
> We will bring together people who have engaged in
> community and place-based 
> initiatives and those who want to examine such
> opportunities and issues. We 
> will include a wide variety of perspectives from the
> arts and culture to 
> the sciences, from educators and scholars to
> activists, as we discuss how 
> to develop initiatives that engender an ecological
> ethos on the local 
> level. We will also explore how the larger
> environmental, anti-racism, peace, and social 
> justice movements can nurture local engagement, and
> how local initiatives 
> can provide fresh insights regarding global
> challenges.
> 
> We want to showcase place and regionally based
> programs of education and 
> action promoting environmental and community
> sustainability, advance the 
> development and implementation of such programs, and
> engage in scholarly 
> reflection upon them.
> 
> 
> Featured Speakers
> 
> Peter Berg
> Director, Planet Drum Foundation
> <http://www.planetdrum.org/>
> <<http://www.planetdrum.org/>>
> 
> Will Raap
> Founder of Gardners' Supply Company and The
> Intervale Foundation
> <http://www.intervale.org/>
> <<http://www.intervale.org/>
> 
> Janisse Ray
> Author, *Ecology of a Cracker Childhood* and her
> latest book *Pinhook*
> <http://www.chelseagreen.com/2005/items/pinhook>
> 
> 
> Sponsors
> 
> Orion Society
> Cobscook Community Learning Center
> Global Community Initiatives
> Two Rivers Center for Sustainability
> 
> 
> We welcome proposals for presentations, full panels,
> and other activities 
> that address the conference theme in diverse ways.
> Proposals should address 
> such questions as:
> • What existing place and regionally based programs
> and activities provide 
> models of ways promoting environmental and community
> sustainability?
> • What are the diverse methods and strategies for
> engaging in this work 
> using, for example, the arts, education,
> restoration, advocacy, and 
> political action?
>          • What are the strengths and limitations of
> these approaches?
> • What are the major current challenges to promoting
> environmental and 
> community sustainability?
> • How do we envision meeting these challenges in the
> future?
> • How can local initiatives address global issues?
> • How can local initiatives work to bring different
> constituencies together?
> • How can local initiatives address issues of
> environmental justice?
> • What are the underlying historical, philosophical,
> political and other 
> foundations of such programs and activities?
> 
> We welcome presentations from a wide range of
> people, from grassroots 
> activists to scholars. Presenters must be registered
> participants in the 
> conference. (We anticipate that limited scholarship
> support will be 
> available for those who cannot otherwise attend.)
> 
> For more information, including the conference theme
> and proposal format 
> and content, visit the conference’s web site at:
> 
> http://www.goddard.edu/academic/actioninplace.html
> 
> Submitting your proposal: Sent it as an e-mail
> attachment in Rich Text 
> Format to LuttsR at goddard.edu. Deadline for proposals
> is May 31, 2005.
> 
> 
> 
> Goddard College provides low-residency,
> student-centered opportunities to 
> earn undergraduate and graduate degrees. Its
> Individualized M.A. Program 
> offers a student-designed Concentration in
> Interdisciplinary Environmental 
> Studies. Its other programs also provide
> opportunities to pursue 
> environmental and sustainability studies. These
> programs include 
> Individualized B.A., B.A./M.A. in Health Arts &
> Sciences, B.A./M.A. in 
> Education, M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts, and
> M.A. in Psychology. Visit 
> the college’s web site at: www.Goddard.edu.
> 
> Goddard College also offers “George," a portal to
> on-line and print 
> resources for environmental and sustainability
> Studies. It can be accessed 
> through the college library’s web page, or by going
> to: 
> <http://web.goddard.edu/ESresources> .
> <http://web.goddard.edu/ESresources> .
>                              * * * * *
> 
> Ralph H. Lutts
> 311 Dan River Road
> Meadows of Dan, VA 24120 USA
> 276-952-6109
> 276-952-6125 (fax)
> rhlutts at swva.net
> 
> Visit "George": Resources for Environmental and
> Sustainability Studies
> http://web.goddard.edu/ESresources
> 
> 
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