EEPSA

EEPSA Ecolacy Newsletter

Ecolacy is an online newsletter open to all EEPSA members. It includes articles, links, and professional development opportunities of interest to environmental educators. To submit an article or graphic for inclusion in Ecolacy, contact ljharves(at)shaw.ca.

• Spring 2008

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EEPSA and the E.L.E. Curriculum Framework

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EEPSA Executive and AGM Minutes

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Ministry of Education

Sustainability Course Content: a Curriculum Framework

...provides sustainability topic areas and possible learning outcomes related to these topics. It contains seven modules that might be used individually or as an entire course. The modules have been designed so that they can be adapted into existing or new Board/Authority Authorized courses developed by schools or districts. All content in the framework document is merely a starting point for teachers and schools wishing to offer students courses with sustainability-focused content. The document is on the Ministry's Green Schools web site.

Online E.E. Articles and Media Presentations

• Scientists Break Down Patterns in Nature - Nature has many patterns and ecologists seek to both describe and understand them. One challenge is to find patterns in that complexity and to ask whether simple explanations lie beneath them. A Scripps Institute Article (April, 2003).
• Environmental Education Is Polluting Classrooms - Written by the Fraser Institute. Read it and weep. Then, join EEPSA to dispell such nonsense.
• Environment Canada - Environmental Learning and Sustainability.

E.E. Newsletters, Journals and Magazines

• Clearing Magazine Environmental Education in the Pacific Northwest. Free subscription published three time yearly and mailed to all EEPSA members. Based in Portland, Oregon. Selected Clearing articles online.
• Green Teacher Magazine Environmental Education across Canada. Based in Toronto, Ont. Online activities, curriculum resources and other updates. Free subscription mailed to all EEPSA members.
• Canadian Journal of Environmental Education - Academic papers and thought provoking discussions. Published by Yukon College.
• Alternatives Magazine - an unsorted collection of diverse articles on environmental topics in the Pacific Northwest.
• Orion Magazine - online video interviews, articles, photo galleries from high-profile activists and journalists on a variety of alternative cultural and international issues. Thought provoking.
• New Internationalist Magazine - Reporting on issues of world poverty and inequality; to draw attention to unjust relationships between the powerful and the powerless in both rich and poor nations; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary if the basic material and spiritual needs of all are to be met.
• Emagazine - various articles on environmental issues in the US and beyond. Includes a comprehensive archive of magazine stories.
• Elements - Environmental Magazine online. Dual language French/English Canadian online environmental news digest.