Patricia: 1 p.m. in which time zone?!

Fri Mar 17 06:02:06 PST 2006

Patricia, it was great to join the phone call yesterday (thanks for 
getting the word out there, even at the last minute), and get a 
person-to-person sense of the Education for Sustainable Development 
work going on, and how OS is being used in that work. If our 
conversation gets too ESD, and not enough OS, someone on the list 
please let us know!

I wonder if any of the Wangari Mathai meetings in Florida that were 
mentioned yesterday will be taped, and whether we could listen to a 
clip of that - or have her live on the call - for some inspiration? I 
think she is often in the US.

I am too new to the ESD conversations at the national level to have 
ideas for national speakers. But a little group of us are going to 
start have cafe conversations about ESD, with our first gathering in 
Portsmouth NH on March 25th at 11am, cafe yet to be selected. And there 
will be an OS on Teaching Peace, with Steve Cochran (Director of the 
Partnership for ESD, if I have that right) facilitating, on April 1 in 
Durham NH at the public high school, open to all. (I'm sure that the 
connections between sustainable development and peace will be in the 
fore that day!) I will bring with me, that day, this new video: Growing 
Together: Consensus Building, Smart Growth, and Community Change   
http://efc.muskie.usm.maine.edu/

Hearing your intro on the call, I thought "we'll have to talk!" -- Like 
you, my work is with adults and community. One of my closest work 
partners is our U. Maine Extension agent, who also talks about the 
Danish Folk Schools. (And he's an OS user, sometimes facilitator, with 
Extension.) My graduate degree was in parent education and support. And 
I just turned 60 last fall, and have three young grandkids, so we even 
share life stage! (For those not on the call, Patricia's grandkids were 
in the background during the call.) I wish you could come to the OS 
event April 1 in NH -- any chance?

Diane Brandon
Eliot, Maine
www.keysregion.org

On Mar 17, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Patricia Haines wrote:

> so sorry! several folks alerted me to how I'd left that out - I 
> apologize for my east
> coast-centeredness!
>
> The next Partnership Phone Forum will be Thursday, April 20th, 1 pm 
> Eastern Time. Same phone number
> and pass code.
>
> We will be starting a series of visitors in April, key voices from the 
> national sustainability arena
> who will say a few words and then field questions. If any of you have 
> thoughts on folks you'd like
> to hear from in future months, let me know.
>
> Patricia
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tree Fitzpatrick <therese.fitzpatrick at gmail.com>
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Sent:         Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:21:07 -0800
> Subject: Patricia: 1 p.m. in which time zone?!
>
>> On 3/16/06, Patricia Haines <levelgreen at kaxy.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> At the recent 1st anniversary convocation, members of the US 
>>> Partnership
>>> agreed to explore
>>> possibilities for creating some kind of Open Space training as a 
>>> tool for
>>> sustainability education.
>>> Since this is part of the global UN Decade initiative, and you all 
>>> are
>>> leaders among practitioners,
>>> I'm hoping that you'll considering joining us for this afternoons 
>>> phone
>>> forum (free - see below) and
>>> sharing your thoughts. - Patricia
>>>
>>> INVITATION TO MONTHLY US PARTNERSHIP PHONE FORUM
>>> Thanks for passing this along:
>>>
>>> Want to learn what others across the country are doing to further
>>> education for sustainable
>>> development? want to add your ideas to the growing conversation? 
>>> share
>>> what you're up to?
>>> findcollaborators?
>>>
>>> Please join us this afternoon at 1 pm for the US Partnership's 
>>> monthly
>>> phone forum - free (thanks
>>> tothe US Dept of Agriculture - your tax dollars at work!) and open to
>>> everyone.
>>> Call in 866-918-5492 - passcode of 479945.
>>>
>>> These calls last 1-2 hours generally, and you're welcome to come and 
>>> go as
>>> your schedule allows.
>>> Members of the Partnership leadership team will fill us in on what's 
>>> going
>>> on in k-12, higher
>>> education, interfaith initiatives,and community-level action - and 
>>> on the
>>> 1st anniversary
>>> Convocation that took place in Raleigh, NC earlier this month.
>>>
>>> Everyone is invited to share what they're up to - and we're looking 
>>> for
>>> suggestions for monthly
>>> special visitors - key voices from across the country and all 
>>> aspects of
>>> "sustainability" - that
>>> you'd like to hear from in the future.
>>>
>>> If the Partnership is new to you, check <uspartnership.org>.
>>>
>>> This is the US response to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable
>>> Development, launched March
>>> 2005. It is unique on the global scene - a totally voluntary and
>>> fast-growing network of partners
>>> ranging from middle school youth to Ford Motor Company, from 
>>> colleges and
>>> universities to grassroots
>>> organizations, the White House Environmental Executive, the American
>>> Planning Association, and many
>>> more.
>>>
>>> Serving as a "switchboard" for sharing information and fostering
>>> collaborations that strengthen our
>>> individual effectiveness through collective commitment, the 
>>> Partnership's
>>> mission is to leverage the
>>> UN Decade as impetus for integrating the values and knowledge 
>>> essential
>>> for creating a sustainable
>>> world into formal and non-formal education.
>>>
>>> You'll see on the website that the Partnership is loosely structured 
>>> into
>>> interest communities,
>>> 'sectors', for k-12, higher education, business, faith, living
>>> institutions (zoos, nature centers,
>>> aquariums etc), and adult/community learning. Cross-sector action 
>>> teams
>>> weave youth, the arts (just
>>> emerging), funding, and marketing the vision of sustainability 
>>> throughout.
>>>
>>> The Partnership Phone Forum takes place on the 3rd thursday of every
>>> month, 1-3 pm. If you can't
>>> join us this month, mark your calendar for April!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Never doubt that a group of committed citizens can change the world 
>>> -
>>> indeed, it's the only thing
>>> that can." - Margaret Mead
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Warmly,
>> Tree Fitzpatrick
>> Hearthkeeper
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