Green Dinners
Eat, Talk, and Solve Together
Green Dinners allow people in our local community to come together, not only to enjoy each others company, but also to bring up relevant issues occuring in our neighborhood that we'd like to change. It's a great opportunity to meet people, strengthen friendships, eat nourishing food, and to get in touch with your community. Green Dinners first initiated with ...learn more
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Created: Oct 18, 2007
Updated: Aug 15, 2009
Membership: Open
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Environmental Youth Summi
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| 10 high school student groups participate in the 2009 Environmental Youth Summit in Buffalo. |
The Environmental Youth Summit, a 2-day environmental leadership training and delivery program, offers youth teams from Southern Ontario and Western New York the ability to develop their own projects to address an environmental issue in their school or community. The outcomes for each team that attends the EYS are:
- the practice of applied skills in strategic planning of an environmental initiative;
- the designing and implementation a Plan of Action;
- follow up mentoring by our training team for 45 days after the EYS;
- presentation of seed money for each youth team's project;
- applied training in "Change Leadership" skills;
- and applied training in advocacy skill sets from the Indaba Institute.
The Summit has trained over 150 students and their teacher advisors in the implementation of sustained environmental projects that are capturing the attention of community leaders.
Student teams of 5 to 8 youth arrive with an environmental challenge that they wish to address. They are partnered with a professional facilitator from the International Center for Studies in Creativity, who then leads them through a research-based problem solving process. Students demonstrate their capacity to launch their project plan as the concluding event for the Summit. Plans from past Summits include:
- a new or improve recycling program,
- renewable energy projects,
- invasive species removal,
- water conservation,
- an outdoor aquatic classroom,
- and an upgraded material sculpture park.
If you would like to create the opportunity for your students undertake an environmental challenge, please join us!
The 2010 Summit is on March 26 and 27 at the corporate headquarters of the Seventh Generation Sponsor Rich Products near the Niagara River in New York.
For more information, please visit http://bit.ly/EnvironmentalYouthSummit,
If you'd like, you can begin a discussion with featured Green Teacher Dave Bauer by emailing him at dbauer102@yahoo.com.
I hope that this is one opportunity that you or someone you know couldn't pass up.