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Belmont Forum Ocean Sustainability midterm meeting

... our study sites. These oblique aerial diagrams highlight key features and major threats to aid in developing an environmental literacy for each region. The example that I provided for collaboration for better stakeholder engagement was the develop...

Bringing Communities Together Through Water: The Start of Socio-Environmental Report Cards for the Southeast Michigan region

...teboard to share key historical, cultural, and geographical features of each watershed so that we can develop an environmental literacy statement for the region. The other part of the homework was asking Michiganders to describe how they’d use the...

Cooks River virtual workshop

...hort list of the key things that people needed to know about Cooks River, so that we could develop a Cooks River environmental literacy statement. During the interval that we allowed for people to enter their Mentimeter responses, Simon played some...

Stakeholder workshop for Darwin Harbour report card

...ors, followed by breakouts to explore the indicators, thresholds and potential data sources. We brainstormed the environmental literacy principles for Darwin Harbour and did a storyboard session to mock up the workshop newsletter. At the end of the...

Developing the Western Lake Erie report card in Toledo, Ohio

Western Lake Erie environmental literacy

Western Lake Erie environmental literacy ... Lake Erie is one of five Great Lakes between the United States and Canada. The Great Lakes form the largest...

What you can do to help - exploring tools for Raising the Grade!

... stakeholders can implement and rally behind. For report cards to go beyond a tool for science communication and environmental literacy, to an agent of behavior and environmental change, understanding the interconnection of social and environmental...

Bill Dennison's 500th Blog

...es and people I have encountered I use my blogs as building blocks for various themes that I am developing, like environmental literacy, science communication or environmental report cards I use my blogs to capture some of the fun things like silly...

Kick off workshop for Western Lake Erie report card project

...mental organizations with expertise and interest in Western Lake Erie and its watershed. We discussed developing environmental literacy principles for Western Lake Erie and its watershed. We established that groups with high interest and influence...

Stakeholder workshop bring locals one step closer to a report card for the Tuul River Basin

...Uulanbaatar and an overview of the characteristics of the Tuul River Basin in Bill Dennison’s blog, ‘Environmental Literacy of the Tuul River, Mongolia’, here . As Bill didn’t cover this, I wanted to mention: flying to Mongo...

How can we include and legitimize other voices in science?

...ing for legal protection of the environment. Communicate science strategically to promote science engagement and environmental literacy We need to frame our research in ways that allow people to connect with our main message. To do this, we should...

Lower Kafue River Environmental Literacy

Lower Kafue River Environmental Literacy ... In February 2018, Simon Costanzo , Michele Thieme and I travelled to Lusaka, Zambia to kick off a project to...

Environmental literacy for the Assabet, Sudbury and Concord Rivers

Environmental literacy for the Assabet, Sudbury and Concord Rivers ... As part of a report card project that we recently initiated with...

Reflections on teaching a global course on developing environmental report cards

...y provided a lot of insights and experience in their respective ecosystems, which came out in their introductory environmental literacy presentations, during class time discussions, and in their final presentations. It was a pleasure to learn about...

Talk Less, Show More: Communicating Challenges and Successes in a Changing World

...ty of people felt that their actions contribute to water pollution. Clearly, we need to work to develop a better environmental literacy so that people better understand their role and contributions to water pollution. I was especially pleased to se...

Defining Report Card Indicator Thresholds to Achieve Healthy Outcomes

...is, from WWF - Mexico . She brought a new perspective to our discussion of report card thresholds and shared her environmental literacy presentation. Information about the course and other participants is available here . Ximena identified several...

Sharing tools for stakeholder engagement and collaboration at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum

...at translate into collective actions that protect environmental resources and improve the social, mental, and phy...the added benefits of increasing public environmental stewardship and support of science or management...

Integrate, Apply and Network

...National Park Service) booklets (e.g., science to action series with Conservation International ) development of environmental literacy principles, summarized as blog posts on the IAN website (e.g., Chesapeake Bay literacy, Great Barrier Reef liter...

What’s the Story in Your Report Card?

...ory: 1. What story does your report card tell? Last week the Healthy Rivers for All course attendees spoke about environmental literacy. Essentially, we were talking about what makes a place special. What is the story of a place? And how do you bui...

Persuasive Writing Skills: A Professional Development Session with John Sturtevant

...requires an attitude shift in composing presentation or written content. I like to think that our blog series on environmental literacy comes close to achieving this goal of providing readers with the essential facts that they need to know. It is s...

Developing a vision for an integrated Darwin Harbour report card

Environmental literacy of the Tuul River, Mongolia

Environmental literacy of the Tuul River, Mongolia ... Environmental literacy principles for the Tuul River, Mongolia The Tuul River in northcentral Mongolia is a tributary to the Orkhon Riv...

In the Footsteps of Gengis Khan in the Mongolian Steppe: Part 3

...then talked about a theory of change based on these report cards. We also introduced the concept of establishing environmental literacy principles for the Tuul River. We also performed stakeholder mapping by placing the names of different governmen...

Developing environmental intelligence through environmental literacy and citizen science

Developing environmental intelligence through environmental literacy and citizen science ... I was asked to speak at a ‘ Data to Decisions ’ workshop at the Wye Research...

Adding value to “Network” in IAN: Exploring the potential uses of Social Network Analysis

...hat exists within the network, among others. We could also show if the network that we formed promotes environmental literacy and collaborative learning (which may eventually lead to behavior change and collective action). The SNA short c...

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