Want to make climate change education a reality with
your audiences?

Interested in learning innovative ways to better communicate with them about important environmental issues regarding climate change? 

Yes, that's what we thought!

Unity College invites you to attend this week-long workshop, co-sponsored by The Orion Society, publisher of Orion Magazine, from July 27 - August 2, 2008 on the campus of Unity College in Maine. 

So, whether you are a teacher from the sciences, humanities and language arts, a nature interpreter, environmental journalist, or an environmental educator at any level, you will find useful and nourishing ideas and strategies to bring into your classroom, nature center, zoo, museum, and curriculum.

With a friendly nod to traditional lesson plans and strategies, we're offering you the opportunity to learn new and innovative approaches within a learning community of leading scholars, authors, activitsts, and education professors. And as a workshop participant, you will be challenged to use your creativity and imagination to develop skills through field-based learning, conversations, and presentations.

The core faculty include:

• H. Emerson Blake, executive director of Orion
• Lowell Monke, associate professor of Wittenburg University/author
• Kathryn Miles, director of the environmental writing program at Unity College
• Nalini Nadkarni, scientist/canopy ecologist 
• Janisse Ray, writer/activist
• Carey Stanton, National Wildlife Federation
• Mitch Thomashow, president of Unity College/author

Overall, the workshop includes a comfortable, friendly atmosphere filled with commradory. The keynote address offers an environmental challenge which unites participants throughout the entire workshop, and upon reflection, valuable experiences will be shared.

There will be plenty of small and large group programs, workshops, and special sessions, as well as field trips and outside activities. Meals are prepared using local foods and on-campus residence hall lodging is located next to our 125 acre nature trail system.

We expect you'll want to attend this workshop, especially if you want to educate others about the natural world in our changing climate. Click here to read more about the workshop schedule.