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This symposium will focus on key components of
Global Sustainability and Earth Literacy that
impact Sustainability Education including: The
Universe Story- detailing the evolution of our
planet and the emergence of the community of
life; Earth Jurisprudence- recognizing that the
Earth is the source of laws which govern life;
The Earth Charter -describing fundamental
ethical principles for building a just,
sustainable and peaceful global society in the
21st century; and sustainable development and
civic engagement. In addition, the symposium
will address how we frame communities and
necessary skills and changes that are needed to
bring about more sustainable and healthy
environments. Members of the Earth Ethics
Institute National Advisory Board will detail a
summary of each of these components, cite
opportunities of engagement and examples of
sustainability in action, facilitate discussion,
and help participants identify content and
educational processes one can incorporate in
existing curriculum.
Objectives
As a result of
this symposium participants will be able to:
Describe the process
of which Earth and all life evolve as taught by
contemporary science.
Describe the impact
of law and governance on sustainability.
Identify the role
and function of sustainable communities in the
world.
Explain the
interdisciplinary connection of global
sustainability and Earth literacy.
Describe the
relationship between sustainable development and
a warming climate.
Relate
sustainability to at least one academic
discipline of interest.
Integrate civic
engagement opportunities regarding
sustainability into the curricula.
Plan of
Evaluation:
Participant will
identify a discipline that is compatible with
his or her own and describe a collaborative
project that helps students learn the key
concepts of Global Sustainability and Earth
Literacy while creating communities of
engagement. A summary of this project is due to
the Earth Ethics Institute Director three weeks
from the date of the symposium.
Or
Faculty will develop
a lesson plan incorporating global
sustainability and Earth Literacy concerns due
to the Earth Ethics Institute director three
weeks from the date of the symposium.
Or
Faculty will develop
a presentation for a Sustainability Symposium
intended for a student audience, due to the EEI
director within three weeks of the date of the
symposium.
Facilitator
Information
Dr. Peter Blaze Corcoran
is Professor of Environmental Studies and
Environmental Education at Florida Gulf Coast
University. He is also director of the
Center for Environmental and Sustainability
Education.
He has served as Coordinator of "University
Colloquium: A Sustainable Future," an ecological
literacy course required of all students. He is
a past president of the North American
Association for Environmental Education and
immediate past chair of the Ecological and
Environmental Education Special Interest Group
of American Educational Research Association.
Dr. Larry Edwards
received his Ph.D. in chemical-physics at
Harvard University. He taught/researched at the
American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Cal
State Northridge, and the California Institute
of Technology before moving to the U.S. National
Science Foundation. After 17 years of government
service Larry finally realized the depth of
today's crisis and left NSF to live and teach at
Genesis Farm in Blairstown, NJ. He continues to
teach there as well as at the
California Institute of Integral Studies
and the
Dominican Ecocentre in Wicklow City, Ireland.
Madelyn Moyer
served as an AmeriCorps VISTA member assigned to
the Earth Ethics Institute (EEI) at Miami Dade
College in 2009-10, where she helped establish
Community-Rooted Organic Produce Services
(CROPS) an organic produce purchasing
cooperative with a sliding membership fee based
that serves the Miami Dade College community.
Upon completion of her service at EEI, Madelyn
was accepted into the Catalyst Project’s Anne
Braden Anti-Racist Training Program in San
Francisco, a four month political education and
leadership development program designed to
support the political development, skills, and
analysis of white activists in becoming
accountable, principled anti-racist organizers
building multiracial movements for justice.
During her time there she interned with the
Chinese Progressive Association, supporting
their work around immigrant and workers' rights.
Currently Madelyn is a New York City Teaching
Fellow. She started her training in June 2011
and now is working full time as an Earth Science
and Marine Science teacher at Bedford-Stuyvesant
Preparatory High School, in Bedford-Stuyvesant,
Brooklyn.
Dr. Jack Parker
is a Founding and Emeritus Professor at Florida
International University (FIU). He Received a
B.S. in Chemistry from Emory University and a
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University
of California at Berkeley. His research
interests focus on ecological landscaping,
passive solar cooling, energy and resource
conservation, energy policy and environmental
education. Dr. Parker received American Forests’
Research Medal for his pioneering studies of
energy conservation landscaping, the
Distinguished Service Award from the Florida
Board of Regents for his work in the community
and the FIU Service Medallion for 35 years of
outstanding university service.
Dr. Debra Rowe
is Senior Advisor at Second Nature and a Senior
Fellow at the Association of University Leaders
for a Sustainable Future, where she helps higher
education institutions integrate "sustainability
literacy" into curricula, student life,
operations and community partnerships. She is
the Higher Education Co-Chair of the
U.S. Partnership for the Decade of Education for
Sustainable Development.
Dr. Rowe is the Co-Coordinator of the Higher
Education Associations' Sustainability
Consortium. She is also the energy and
sustainability consultant to a National Science
Foundation funded Electronic Environmental
Resources Library. Dr. Rowe has been professor
of Renewable Energy Technologies, Energy
Management and Behavioral Sciences for over 26
years at Oakland Community College. She was
Interim Dean of Applied and Engineering
Technologies in 2002-2003, and won the
Outstanding Faculty Award in 2004. She consults
with colleges nationally, has numerous
publications and is often a keynote speaker at
conferences. Debra Rowe received her Ph.D. in
Business, her M.B.A., and her M.A. in Psychology
from the University of Michigan. Debra's B.A. is
from Yale University.
Patricia Siemen
is a Dominican Sister from Adrian, Michigan, and
an attorney. She currently serves as the
director of the
Center for Earth Jurisprudence, Barry University
School of Law.
Previous positions Sister Pat has held include
director of the Earth Ethics Institute at Miami
Dade College, engaging students and staff in
programs and workshops in Earth Literacy; staff
attorney for the Voting Section of the United
States Department of Justice, Civil Rights
Division; and legal services attorney for
migrant farm workers in South Florida. Sister
Pat has also served in community organizing with
the African-American community in rural
Tennessee, in parish ministry with the Latino
community and elementary education. She served
on the Adrian Dominican Sisters Congregational
leadership team from 1988 – 98.
Pat holds a Juris Doctor from Northeastern
University School of Law, Boston; a Master in
Public Affairs from the University of Texas at
Austin; and a Master in Culture and Spirituality
from Holy Names University, Oakland, California.
Her B.A. is in History and Political Science
from Siena Heights University, Adrian,
Michigan. Pat is a member of the Michigan and
Florida Bar.
Ms. Ana Maria Vasquez-Leon
is the Latin America director of the Bridges
Across Borders (BAB) program in Jacque, Panama.
Bridges Across Borders is an international,
non-governmental organization that was formed to
address the root causes of violence and hatred
in the world. BAB is working to dissolve the
imagined and imposed borders that separate by:
1) encouraging a cooperative spirit that builds
understanding of our global community 2)
supporting projects that lead to sustainable
economic self-sufficiency 3) preserving
ancient cultures and ancient species 4) teaching
creative non-violent methods of resolving
conflict 5) and promoting universal principles
of human rights.
Dr. Mitzi Wood-Von Mizener
has served as the director of
Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center
(NRELC) in Grainger County, Tennessee since
2008. NRELC was established to study, teach and
demonstrate sustainability and has a mission of
providing experiential learning of Earth
literacy. Mitzi earned a Doctorate of Psychology
from Nova Southeastern University in 1997 and
practiced as a Clinical Psychologist until she
became Director of NRELC in 2008. She received
Vision Fast training from Bill Nickle as well as
the School of Lost Borders and has served as
Vision Fast guide at NRELC since 2006. She
currently serves as a member of the Board of
Directors of Just Connections which brings
together people from communities and colleges in
Appalachia for service-learning, research, and
collaborative action that will empower
communities for social, economic and
environmental justice.
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