SD Education

George Washington University, Washington, DC. Guest lecture in courses related to environmental and economic sustainability. Presented to both undergraduate and graduate students the underlying concepts and principles of sustainable development application as it relates to global business and regional economies. Contact: Dr. Mark Starik, Environmental and Social Sustainability Initiative, George Washington University, 203 Monroe Hall, Washington, DC 20052 - tel. (202)994-5621. e-mail: essi@gwu.edu.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Guest lecturer for the 2004 Environmental Lecture Series at Purdue University: lecture title - "The Sustainable Development of Water Resources." Also lectured to four different classes in history, architecture, engineering, and ecology on sustainable development. Met with faculty in engineering and environmental studies regarding how to implement ideas of sustainable development teaching "across the curriculum." Contact: Dr. Ronald F. Turco, Professor and Director, Environmental Sciences and Engineering Institute, Potter Engineering Center, Room 326, 500 Central Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2022 - tel. (765)496-3209. e-mail: rturco@purdue.edu.

Clermont County Educational Service Center, Batavia, OH. Contracted by the Clermont County Educational Service to develop the content for and produce a series of distance-learning lectures and companion on-line learning modules on sustainable development for high school students that focus on national and global issues of sustainability students can relate to in their own communities. Employed distance-learning video-conferencing technology to conducted 12 learning sessions that introduced students to the concept of sustainable development and presented educational information on a number of contemporary problems students read about in the newspapers in the context of sustainable development principles. Student learning was further supported by development of sustainable development content modules students could access on-line prior to participating in each week’s video-conference topic. This project has reached 18 high schools throughout Ohio and a total of 438 students during the Spring 2004 school year. Contact: Dr. Cathy McDonald, Clermont County Educational Service Center, 2400 Clermont Center Dr., Suite #202, Batavia, OH 45103 - tel: (513)735-8356. e-mail: MacdonaldC@ccesc.org.

National Council for Science and the Environment. Served for nine months as a Sustainability Conference Planning Committee Member, Assisted the National Council for Science and the Environment in the planning of their 3rd Annual Conference (January 2003) entitled "Education for a Sustainable and Secure Future." As a Conference Planning Committee member contributed to designing the conference agenda, identifying experts to serve as speakers and panelists, and writing parts of the Pre-conference Briefing Document on Sustainability Education and Communication. Also co-designed and co-facilitated a breakout session during the conference that involved 40 Conference participants working on the specific task of defining a "Strategy for a National Public Communications Campaign on Sustainable Development." Contact: Dr. David Blockstein, Senior Scientist, National Council for Science and the Environment, 1707 H St., NW, Second Floor, Washington, DC 20006 - tel. (202)530-5810. e-mail: david@cnie.org.

West Clermont School District. Contracted by the West Clermont School District in Cincinnati, OH as a Sustainability Education Consultant to develop a series of distance-learning lectures on sustainable development that focus on global issues emphasized by the WSSD in the summer of 2002, as well as issues the students could relate to in their own communities. Conducted 9 distance-learning sessions during spring semester of 2003 that introduced students to the concept of sustainable development and presented a number on contemporary problems students read about in the newspapers in the context of sustainable development principles. Contact: Mr. James Mangold, West Clermont Local School District, 4578 East tech Dr., Suite 101, Cincinnati, OH 45245 - tel: (513)943-5005. e-mail: mangold_j@westcler.org.

Beyond Creation, Muncie, IN. Assisted with the organization's initial planning and formal non-profit structure development. Designed and published the organization's web site. Assisted the organization's founder in the development and exhibition of the EARTH CHILD Project, a mobile playhouse laboratory that demonstrates different aspects of green building design and the ultimate conservation strategies that evolve in watershed protection from consumers utilizing the recommended green building strategies and energy/water conservation strategies in their own households. Contact: Ms. Willow Thomas, Beyond Creation, ARC, P.O. Box 398, Springfield OH 45501 - tel: (937)727-1040. e-mail: WillowT37@aol.com.