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• Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Environmental Education (Online Course)

  • Start
    Mon, July 05, 2021
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  • End
    Fri, August 27, 2021
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  Please note: registration for this course is currently full! Please join the waitlist.  Depending on interest, we may add an additional cohort.

  This course is designed to provide a strong foundation in the language, concepts and principles of equity work for environmental educators and environmental professionals.  It is meant to be an introductory course and spark interest in further learning around justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI). The main topics for the course include:

  • Foundations of communication for sensitive topics, including group agreements and nonviolent communication.

  • Developing a common language for discussing JEDI topics

  • Understanding historical intersections of the environmental movement with social justice topics, how those historical events might still be causing impacts today.

  • Understanding bias, stereotypes, and oppression

  • Reflecting on power and privilege that different identities afford, how that power and privilege manifests as microaggressions and how to use the power and privilege you had to develop a personal action plan.

  This course was developed through a partnership between Center for Diversity and the Environment, EcoInclusive, Youth Outside, Environmental Educators of North Carolina, Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education, and Kentucky Association for Environmental Education.  

  Format: This is an asynchronous online course. 

  • All activities must be completed independently on your own time/schedule within the 8 week timeframe.  Actual time to complete the course will vary, but we estimate it will take 10-15 hours.
  • We will provide a suggested timeline and periodic reminders to encourage timely completion of assignments.  While we want to be flexible, we also want these learning experiences to be meaningful and we think timely and periodic work in the courses will benefit participants more than trying to complete coursework at the last minute.
  • Coursework includes watching videos, reading articles, posting on forums and Padlet boards, and writing personal reflections.

  Limited to 30 students per cohort. 

  Cohort Timeline: This cohort will begin July 5, 2021.  Participants will have until August 27, 2021 to complete the course.
  

  Eligible for 10+ hours of Criteria I or continuing education credit for the NC DEQ EE Certificate.

  Registration: $30 for EENC members, $40 for general registration.  Sliding registration option also available.

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• Venomous Snakes of the Carolinas (EENC Webinar)

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    Thu, August 19, 2021
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    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT)

  Venomous snakes have always fascinated and caused great fear to humans but these creatures are actually normally quite gentle and shy unless provoked into defending themselves. In this program we’ll discuss the various species of venomous snakes found in both North and South Carolina, their natural history and distribution in the wild, facts and myths about them, snakebite, and what to do when they are encountered in the wild. In addition, participants will gain a better understanding of and learn basic identification skills concerning these very misunderstood and feared reptiles.

  Presenter: Carlton Burke
  Carlton Burke is a naturalist and educator who operates Carolina Mountain Naturalists, an educational service which offers wildlife and nature educational programs primarily in western North Carolina. He also was on the staff of the western North Carolina Nature Center in Asheville for over 25 years as the Curator of Exhibits. Carlton also co-hosts a weekly radio program NATURE NEWS and is also a NC state and federally licensed wildlife rehabilitator.

  Registration Information
  Webinar registration is free and open to anyone to attend, but is limited to 100 participants. Click here to register.

  Webinar will qualify for Criteria III and continuing education for NC DEQ EE Certificate.  

  A recording of the webinar will be sent to attendees afterward.  It will also be posted on EENC's Member Resources page - so if you're an EENC member and not able to attend during the scheduled time, no need to register!

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• Eastern Book & Social Club: The Overstory (Eastern Section Event)

  • When
    Thu, August 26, 2021
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    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    NHC Arboretum Auditorium, 6206 Oleander Dr. Wilmington, NC 28403

  Bring your own beverage and food for an engaging evening with your fellow environmental educators. We’ll get to know each other and dive into conversation about the following books. There is no cost.

  Thurs. August 26

  The Overstory: A Novel

  By Richard Powers

  From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’ twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

  
  

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• 2021 EENC Annual Conference and SEEA Conference

  • Start
    Thu, September 09, 2021
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  • End
    Sat, September 11, 2021
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  • Location
    Lutheridge Camp and Conference Center

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  Join us for the 30th Annual Environmental Educators of North Carolina Conference at Lutheridge Camp and Conference Center in Arden, NC from Friday, September 10 to Saturday, September 11, 2021.  This will also be the Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance (SEEA) regional conference. The 7th annual Research Symposium will be held on Saturday, September 11. Plan ahead now for pre-conference workshops, field trips, and more on Thursday, September 9.

  Enjoy a conference full of professional development, networking, learning, and field experiences that will help you expand your knowledge of EE and resources in NC and beyond! 

  Lutheridge Camp and Conference Center is located at 2511 Hendersonville Road, Arden, NC 28704. 

  Learn more at www.eenc.org/conference

  
  

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• Better Communication through Improvisation (EENC Webinar)

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    Thu, September 16, 2021
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    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EDT)

  So much of environmental education involves thinking on your feet. From building connections with students on the first day, to tailoring your teaching tactics to your learners, to responding professionally to those teachable moments. This Improvisation webinar will help you to explore how you show up in the moment. Creative processes will be used to learn new ways to improve your innate communication style with confidence. No experience is needed.

  Presenter: John Cane
  As a strengths-based, positive psychology Integrative Wellness Coach, John’s focus is on helping others get from where they are to where they want to be for a more satisfying and fulfilling life.  With a solid background in psychological research and acting training, John uses a simple and direct approach in helping others achieve their true potential. John works side-by-side with clients for an overall objective to solidify a goal, explore the situation, develop multiple potential options/solutions, and to help his clients make decisive personal choices for taking action. John has the experience and insight to develop and present his workshops on Self-Esteem, Communication, Professionalism, Business Etiquette, Personal Performance and Reducing Stress in everyday life.

  Registration Information
  Webinar registration is free and open to anyone to attend, but is limited to 100 participants. Click here to register.

  Webinar will qualify for Criteria III and continuing education for NC DEQ EE Certificate.  

  A recording of the webinar will be sent to all registered participants afterward.  It will also be posted on EENC's Member Resources page - so if you're an EENC member and not able to attend during the scheduled time, no need to register!

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• Piedmont Book Club: "All the Colors We Will See" (Piedmont Section Event)

  • When
    Mon, September 20, 2021
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    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Zoom

  Join us for our third Piedmont Section Book Club meeting! For our next book, we will discuss All the Colors We Will See: Reflections on Barriers, Brokenness, and Finding Our Way by Patrice Gopo.

  “Patrice Gopo grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, the child of Jamaican immigrants who had little experience being black in America. From her white Sunday school classes as a child, to her early days of marriage in South Africa, to a new home in the American South with a husband from another land, Patrice’s life is a testament to the challenges and beauty of the world we each live in, a world in which cultures overlap every day.
  
  In All the Colors We Will See, Patrice seamlessly moves across borders of space and time to create vivid portraits of how the reality of being different affects her quest to belong. In this poetic and often courageous collection of essays, Patrice examines the complexities of identity in our turbulent yet hopeful time of intersecting heritages. As she digs beneath the layers of immigration questions and race relations, Patrice also turns her voice to themes such as marriage and divorce, the societal beauty standards we hold, and the intricacies of living out our faith.
  
  With an eloquence born of pain and longing, Patrice’s reflections guide us as we consider our own journeys toward belonging, challenging us to wonder if the very differences dividing us might bring us together after all.”

  Click here to join our section's Good Reads page and to RSVP for the next book club meeting!

  RSVP: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1163072-eenc-piedmont-section-book-club

  
  

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• Eastern Book & Social Club: A Life on Our Planet (Eastern Section Event)

  • When
    Wed, October 27, 2021
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    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    NHC Arboretum Auditorium, 6206 Oleander Dr. Wilmington, NC 28403

  Bring your own beverage and food for an engaging evening with your fellow environmental educators. We’ll get to know each other and dive into conversation about the following books. There is no cost.

  Wed. October 27

  A Life on Our Planet

  By David Attenborough

  In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future.

  
  

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• Eastern Book & Social Club: Braiding Sweetgrass (Eastern Section Event)

  • When
    Wed, December 29, 2021
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    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (EST)
  • Location
    NHC Arboretum Auditorium, 6206 Oleander Dr. Wilmington, NC 28403

  Bring your own beverage and food for an engaging evening with your fellow environmental educators. We’ll get to know each other and dive into conversation about the following books. There is no cost.

  Wed. December 29

  Braiding Sweetgrass

  By Robin Wall Kimmerer

  As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.

  
  

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