The following information was previously circulated on the EE Groups listserve.  This listserve is for all environmental education stakeholders in the province of Alberta, helping you learn about upcoming events and opportunities that might benefit you in your practice of environmental education.  Sign up for the listserve.

Sent 10 September 2007

About the EE Resource Centre.  As part of our efforts to help advance environmental education in Alberta, we have developed a free on-line Resource Centre.  Please set aside a little time this month to input information about your teaching resources, presentations, workshops, events, or programs.  This easily searchable site will help your audiences find you – and you can use it to network with other organizations, too!

Is this relevant to your group?  Almost certainly.  This site is NOT just for school programs.  It is set up to describe programs and services for all audiences (e.g. General public, youth groups, adults, and schools) and any organization or service.  Businesses can describe their educational products, government agencies and NGO groups can describe their programs, funders can describe their funding opportunities, networks can describe their events, etc. etc...

Draw for an iPod.  All organizations who listed their key resources were entered in a draw for a 4GB iPod nano.

Ready to get started?  Here is your link:
http://abcee.org/eerc

Sent 3 August 2007

Want to present at a teachers convention in Alberta?
Several teacher convention associations are still accepting session proposals for the 2008 teachers conventions in Alberta.  The following link connects to the relevant websites:
http://www.teachers.ab.ca/Professional+Development/Teachers+Conventions/Convention+Directory/

Significant initiative by Ontario government to advance environmental education
July 07, 2007: Today the Ontario government, as one of their green announcements this week, has released the Report of the Working Group on Environmental Education that was chaired by Roberta Bondar and included as one of the members of the Working Group OSEE now-past president Allan Foster.  n their announcement Minister Wynne said the government will adopt and implement all 32 recommendations, the Report would not spend any time sitting on the shelf, and action would begin immediately. The 32 recommendations are far-reaching, will finally create policy, and will affect curriculum, teacher preparation and professional development, both pre-service and in-service, resources, outdoor education, and a new grade 11 course focused on environmental education. The Report Shaping Our Schools, Shaping Our Future can be seen at
 http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/curriculumcouncil/shapingSchools.pdf.
 
2007 Water Quality Solutions Conference
September 24-28/2007, join the Safe Drinking Water Foundation in Edmonton, Alberta for the 2007 Water Quality Solutions Conference. This 5-day conference provides participants an opportunity to network with community leaders and water treatment operators from aboriginal and rural communities, as well as professionals from economic development, health and engineering.
http://www.safewater.org/ <http://www.safewater.org/>
 
NAAEE 36th Annual Conference: November 14-17, 2007 - Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Things are gearing up once again for the NAAEE Annual Conference!  Visit the following website to view more info or to register on-line:
http://www.naaee.org/conference <http://www.naaee.org/conference>
  
Online courses in environmental education (and scholarships): Fundamentals of EE and Applied EE Program Evaluation.
The Environmental  Education and Training Partnership (EETAP) and the University of  Wisconsin-Stevens Point still have a few spaces available in these fall courses.  There are $200 scholarships available.  These scholarships are offered to course participants that are community EE leaders. Visit
http://eetap.org/html/online_ee_courses.php , and contact Angela Lemar (alemar@uwsp.edu) for an application.