WEI EDUCATION PROGRAM: First Quarter 2008 Update:
Organic Farming Education: This coming year we will focus on the development of a more comprehensive organic farming education program for our farm interns and students in Organic Farm School, as well as a farmer training program for farmers interested in converting to organic farming.
Environmental Education: We hope to work in collaboration with Wild River State Park to complete the development of our Prairie Studies Certificate Program. Watch for spring opening.
EcoAware Project: WEI proudly announces that Emily Moore will be coordinating WEI's EcoAware Project and representing WEI in the Healthy Legacy Collaboration. Watch for upcoming events and publications related to the Eco-Aware Project.
Environmental Justice Education: We plan to offer two distant learning adult education 3-credit courses in the Fall of 2008 in our new Earth Justice Studies Program. These courses will be offered as distant learning classes with two on-site discussion days and 15 weeks of educational material. The first two proposed courses: WEI 101: Introduction to Environmental Justice and WEI 201: Introduction to Organic Farming.
Scholars-Under-Fire Programming. Paul Wotzka has just been named WEI's 2008 Scholar-Under-Fire for his work on atrazine in Minnesota waterways and land systems. Watch for special lectures and receptions.
Independent Educators: WEI is open to educators who would like to use the WEI facility to offer educational programming which is consistent with our mission. For more information, contact Tria at wei@w-e-i.org or call 651-583-0705.
WEI Publications and Reports forthcoming in 2008
-- An Environmental Justice Analysis of Phillips Neighborhood, prepared by Dr. Cecilia Martinez and research team
-- Get Personal, Get Political: Women's Environmental Health (How Everyday Products are Polluting Our Bodies and What We Can
Do to Detoxify) prepared by Janelle Sorensen, ed. Jacquelyn Zita
-- The Arsenic Triangle Update, perpared by the Arsenic Triangle Working Group
-- PFC Fact Sheet: A Citizen's Right to Know
-- Atrazine and Rural Environmental Justice