** **ANNOUNCEMENT ****
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*Citizen & Planner Leaders for Local Sustainability*
*/Eco-municipality Leadership Training/***
*June 6-11, 2008***
*Tufts** University, Medford, MA*
In June, 2008, a 5-day national training session will take place at
Tufts University to increase citizen and planner leadership capacity in
communities and their local governments to initiate and lead a change
process to become a sustainable community. This sustainable communities
approach has a substantial track record of successful implementation –
possibly the most extensive in the world - in over 100 municipalities in
Sweden, U.S., and around the world. The objective of the training is to
prepare potential local leaders – including citizens, local officials,
planners, or municipal staff – to be able to lead a process involving
sustainability education, communication, and a strategic implementation
process.
*/_Faculty_: /**Sarah James & Torbjörn Lahti*, co-Directors of the
Institute for Eco-municipality Education & Assistance (IEMEA), and
co-authors of /The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities & Towns Can
Change to Sustainable Practices/ (New Society Publishers, 2004, winner
of the 2005 /Planetizen/ Top Ten Book Award. Torbjörn Lahti is the
founder of the Swedish eco-municipality movement, and he and Sarah James
are co-founders of the emerging U.S. eco-municipality movement. Between
them, they have worked with over 150 municipalities in Sweden and the
United States.
*David Waldron*, recent Director of The Natural Step’s Masters Program
In Strategic Leadership Toward Sustainability, Blekinge Institute of
Techno logy, Sweden, and former Sustainability Coordinator of Whistler,
Canada, the first North American municipality to adopt The Natural Step
framework..
*Julian Agyeman*, Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy
and Planning (UEP), and Chairman of the Department of UEP at Tufts
University. He is author of /Sustainable Communities and the Challenge
of Environmental Justice /(New York University Press, 2005), among other
books.
*/Cost/**:* The fee for attendees requiring accommodations will be
$2,275 , inclusive of tuition, room, and board. Participants registering
and paying before April 15,2008 pay a discounted rate of $2,175. For
persons not requiring accommodations, the cost will be $2,000, or $1,900
if paid before April 15, 2008. Unfortunately, no scholarships or reduced
rates are available.
/Primary Sponsor: /The *Tufts University Department of Urban and
Environmental Policy & Planning*. /Co-sponsors: /*The Massachusetts
Chapter of the American Planning Association* and the *American Planning
Association Environment, Natural Resources, & Energy Division. *
*/Registration:/* To register for this training, send the accompanying
registration form and a check made out to IEMEA. (Sorry, no credit
cards!) There is a 27-person limit. In the event of oversubscription,
priority will be given to individuals presently leading or involved in
local eco-municipality initiatives. Final registration deadline: May 15,
2008.
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*WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS TRAINING SESSION*
* An in-depth understanding of what sustainability means both at the
global and local community level, including the Natural Step
framework for sustainability.
* An in-depth examination what it means to satisfy human needs
within a sustainability context, including psycho-social human needs.
* How to present and communicate sustainability ideas and concepts
to a variety of different audiences, plus tools and materials to
accomplish this.
* How to design and lead a five-year “bottom-up” process for
transforming a municipal government and its larger community to
become an ‘eco-municipality’ – a sustainable community led by
(particular) sustainability objectives which are practiced
throughout the government and larger community.
* How to engage and involve the entire community – citizens,
businesses, institutions, municipal departments and agencies – in
defining a guiding vision and implementing actions to move toward
sustainable practices.
* How to bring key municipal tools, such as master plans, land use
regulations, capital improvements planning, and municipal
budgeting into alignment with sustainability objectives.
*/Program questions: /*email Sarah James at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*/Tufts facility & accommodations questions/*: email Beth Kurth at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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*Citizen & Planner Leaders for Local Sustainability*
*/Eco-municipality Leadership Training /*
*June 6-11, 2008**, Tufts University*
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*R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M (Please print)*
*(Discount deadline – April 15; Final registration deadline – May 15)*
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*Name _______________________________________________________________*
*Affiliation/organization ________________________________________________*
*Title _________________________*
*Mail address _________________________________________________________*
*Telephone (day) ________________________ email ________________________*
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*Do you require accommodations? Yes ____ No _____*
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/Circle appropriate fee:/
*Before 4/15/08*
*After 4/15/08*
*With Tufts accommodation*
*$2,175*
*$2,275*
*No Tufts accommodation*
*$1,900*
*$2,000*
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*Please describe your current involvement or interest in
eco-municipality leadership.*
*_____________________________________________________________________*
*______________________________________________________________________*
*______________________________________________________________________*
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*Please send this form with check made out to IEMEA to:*
* Institute for Ecomunicipality Education & Assistance (IEMEA)*
* C/o Kurth Association Services*
* 21 Hawthorne Street*
* Watertown, MA 02472*
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Daniel Roth
Sustainability Coordinator
Office of Environmental Compliance and Sustainability
Cornell University
www.sustainablecampus.cornell.edu
Youth Action Team Co-Chair
US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
www.uspartnership.org
607-254-8077 (office)
518-727-6723 (cell)
607-255-8461 (fax)
395 Pine Tree Road, Suite 230
Ithaca, NY 14850
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Daniel Roth
Sustainability Coordinator
Office of Environmental Compliance and Sustainability
Cornell University
www.sustainablecampus.cornell.edu
Youth Action Team Co-Chair
US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
www.uspartnership.org
607-254-8077 (office)
518-727-6723 (cell)
607-255-8461 (fax)
395 Pine Tree Road, Suite 230
Ithaca, NY 14850
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