Groups across Vt. connect to plan for environmental awareness

29.11.09

This prove inadequate members of Vermont's Environmental Literacy Project Steering Committee met for the first time. With our dinners balanced precariously on our laps, we got down to issue. During the round of introductions, a few people commented, "I'm not really sure what I'm doing here." But very soon it did become clear — we were there because we were all connected by our disturb to increase environmental awareness in this state.

"Everything is Connected: Environmental Literacy for Vermont" is the title of a yearlong, bestow-funded project led by the Four Winds Nature Institute in cooperation with Vermont's State-Wide Environmental Information Programs alliance. Everything is connected. It's a simple statement, a clich�. Yet it is a theme that we can't deny, and some of the connections are rather surprising.

Vermont's environmental literacy describe continues this winter with a statewide public dialogue process highlighting successful environmental tutoring and communication

Source: Barre Montpelier Times Argus