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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Education

The role of creativity at the nexus of environmental practice

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Our YouTube Channel now offers access to recording

Our YouTube Channel now offers access to recordings of our Field Station Program's fall speaker series on Design, Ecology, and Justice.

Join us live for the next session this Wednesday, September 29th on Zoom, which will explore Creativity at the Nexus of Environmental Practice. Register for free at the link in our bio.

Search for The Wright-Ingraham Institute on YouTube and check out the recording of the first panel discussion, which explored Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Education.

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Meet the speakers for our panel discussion on Crea

Meet the speakers for our panel discussion on Creativity and Environmental Practice, to take place on September 29 at 3:30 pm MT/5:30 pm ET.

Register for free at the link in our bio.

Dr. Marcy Rockman is an archaeologist with experience in national and international climate change policy. Her research focuses on how humans gather and share environmental information, especially during colonization and migration, which she has used to address situations as diverse as cultural resource management in the American West and homeland security risk communication in Washington, DC.

From 2011 to 2018, she served as the inaugural US National Park Service Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator for Cultural Resources. She recently served as Co-chair on behalf of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), alongside UNESCO and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), on a project to improve the incorporation of heritage in IPCC reports. Currently she works with Co-Equal, a nonprofit in Washington, DC, to provide climate change research for the US Congress. Marcy holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Arizona and a BSc in geology from the College of William and Mary.

#EnvironmentalEducation #Creativity #Sustainability #InterdisciplinaryResearch #EcologicalSolidarity

Meet the speakers for our Creativity and Environme

Meet the speakers for our Creativity and Environmental Practice panel discussion, to take place on Wednesday, September 29 at 3:30 pm MT/5:30 pm ET.

Register for free at the link in our bio.

Dr. Melissa K. Nelson is an Indigenous ecologist, writer, editor, media-maker and scholar-activist. She is currently a professor of Indigenous Sustainability in the School of Sustainability at ASU, and previously served as a professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University (2002 – 2020) specializing in Indigenous Environmental and California Indian Studies. She is a transdisciplinary and community-based scholar dedicated to Indigenous rights and sustainability, biocultural heritage and environmental justice, intercultural solidarity, and the renewal and celebration of community health and cultural arts.

Nelson actively advocates for Indigenous Peoples' rights and sustainable lifeways in higher education, nonprofits, and philanthropy, and is particularly passionate about Indigenous food sovereignty at local, regional and global levels. Melissa Nelson is Anishinaabe, Cree, Métis, and Norwegian (a proud member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians).

#EnvironmentalEducation #Creativity #Sustainability #InterdisciplinaryResearch #EcologicalSolidarity

Meet the speakers for our Creativity and Environme

Meet the speakers for our Creativity and Environmental Practice panel discussion, to take place on Wednesday, September 29 at 3:30 pm MT/5:30 pm ET.

Register for free at the link in our bio.

Basia Irland is a Fulbright Scholar, author, poet, sculptor, installation artist, and activist who creates international water projects. Many of these projects are featured in her books, Water Library and Reading the River: The Ecological Activist Art of Basia Irland, which documents more than four decades of work throughout Africa, Canada, Europe, South America, Southeast Asia, and the United States. Irland oﬀers a creative understanding of water while examining how communities of people, plants, and animals rely on this vital element. She often works with scholars from diverse disciplines building rainwater harvesting systems; connecting communities and fostering dialogue along the entire length of rivers; producing water documentaries; releasing hand-carved ice books embedded with native riparian seeds along rivers in community gatherings; and creating waterborne disease projects around the world.

Irland also previously wrote a blog for National Geographic about international rivers, written in the ﬁrst person, from the perspective of the river. Her 2015 TEDx talk in Vail, Colorado was entitled We ARE the River: Urine Watershed – Planting Seeds. Irland is Professor Emerita, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico, where she established the Arts and Ecology Program. She continues to lecture and exhibit extensively.

#EnvironmentalEducation #Creativity #Sustainability #InterdisciplinaryResearch #EcologicalSolidarity

Meet our speakers for Creativity and Environmental

Meet our speakers for Creativity and Environmental Practice, on September 29 at 3:30 pm MT/5:30 pm ET!

Register for free at the link in our bio.

Dr. Joni Adamson is President's Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of English and Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI) at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. She writes on the centrality of the environmental humanities to the sustainability sciences, the design of desirable futures, climate fiction and film, Indigenous literatures and scientific literacies, the rights of nature movement, and the food justice movement. Her research has been supported by numerous awards and grants. She is the author and/or co-editor of eight books and special issues and 80 articles, chapters, reviews and blog posts which have been widely cited, reprinted, and translated into Mandarin and Spanish. She has given numerous keynote conferences worldwide and helped lay the foundations for transnational environmental American Studies and the environmental humanities.

Adamson founded the Environment and Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association and was formerly president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). She is currently Director of the North American Observatory (NAO) and part of the Humanities for the Environment global network which she helped launch with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

#EnvironmentalEducation #Creativity #Sustainability #InterdisciplinaryResearch #EcologicalSolidarity

How can creative and artistic forms of representat

How can creative and artistic forms of representation help us understand and respond to our lands and living systems impacted by anthropogenic change?

Join us on September 29 at 3:30 pm MT / 5:30 pm ET for the second event in our fall speaker series! This panel discussion explores creative expression and environmental practice.

Contemporary methods for describing landscape and natural systems achieve a high level of detail and generate a large volume of data. However, the investigative tools of technology and scientific discourse are only one lens through which to interpret and understand changing landscapes. Advancing understandings of complex situations, such as climate change, or responding to the needs of affected populations and voices, requires expressive and multifaceted storytelling and engagement. This panel discusses how artists, researcher-practitioners, humanities scholars, activists, and social scientists, use a diverse range of creative tools and methods to build awareness and expand perspectives about socio-environmental complexities, protections and challenges.

Registration is free! Link in bio.

#EnvironmentalEducation #Creativity #Sustainability #InterdisciplinaryResearch #EcologicalSolidarity

LAST CALL! There's still time to submit an applica

LAST CALL! There's still time to submit an application for a 2021 grant from The Wright-Ingraham Institute.

Today is the final deadline to apply for a $5K or $10K grant. Visit our website (https://wright-ingraham.org/grants/) to read about eligibility criteria and submit an application via the online form. We do not accept applications via email. Apply by end of day today to be considered for the 2021 grants program.

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DEADLINE APPROACHING! Apply by tomorrow to be cons

DEADLINE APPROACHING! Apply by tomorrow to be considered for a 2021 grant from The Wright-Ingraham Institute.

Eligible 501(c)3 organizations may apply for $5K or $10K grants via the application form on our website (https://wright-ingraham.org/grants/). We do not accept applications via email. Please apply by Friday, September 10th to be considered.

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Our next panel discussion on September 29th will b

Our next panel discussion on September 29th will be moderated by our Executive Director, Dr. Lea Rekow. Learn more about Lea below, and register for the event by clicking the link in our bio.

Lea is also co-lead of Bifrost, an international humanities project promoting climate change awareness. She founded Green My Favela, a food security project based in the favelas of Brazil. She was formerly special envoy for Open & Agile Smart Cities, an advisor to Urban IxD, cultural advisor to the Australian Consulate in New York, adjunct professor at Pratt Institute and at FGCU, a sustainability consultant for GlobalCAD, executive director and lead curator for CCA Santa Fe and Gigantic ArtSpace, and media director of the Center for Peace and Human Security.

Her writing and research focus on transdisciplinary practices for reclaiming degraded space in areas where people are living under extreme socio-environmental stress. She has worked on oral histories with ethnic minorities in conflict zones in Burma, with Indigenous groups on mining reclamation on the Navajo Nation, and with informal communities to help establish the largest organic urban food garden in Latin America.

#EnvironmentalEducation #Creativity #Sustainability #InterdisciplinaryResearch #EcologicalSolidarity

DEADLINE APPROACHING! Apply for a $5K or $10K gra

DEADLINE APPROACHING!

Apply for a $5K or $10K grant with the Wright-Ingraham Institute by next Friday, September 10th, 2021.

To apply for a grant, read about our eligibility criteria and access the grant application form on our website (link in bio).

#NonprofitOrganization #EnvironmentalEducation #InterdisciplinaryResearch #GrantGiving #501c3 #InstitutionBuilding #GrantSeason #GivingProgram #ClimateChange #LandIssues #WildlifeConservation

We are still accepting grant applications from 501

We are still accepting grant applications from 501(c)3 non-profit organizations working in the areas of climate change, land issues, and wildlife conservation. Our application deadline is September 10th, 2021.

We will only accept applications via the form on our website: wright-ingraham.org

#NonprofitOrganization #EnvironmentalEducation #InterdisciplinaryResearch #GrantGiving #501c3 #InstitutionBuilding #GrantSeason #GivingProgram #ClimateChange #LandIssues #WildlifeConservation

THIS WEDNESDAY! Join us for the first event of ou

THIS WEDNESDAY!

Join us for the first event of our Field Stations program fall speaker series.
More info and registration can be found at the link in our bio.

Join at 5:30pm ET for the pre-panel cocktail and conversation session with the institute’s staff and board. The event will be on Zoom and due to limited capacity will be first-come, first-serve, so be sure to register and join early.

#EnvironmentalEducation #Interdisciplinary #IntegrativeStudies

Meet our Field Stations lecture series speakers!

Meet our Field Stations lecture series speakers!

David Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies at @oberlincollege and a James Marsh Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont. He is best known for his pioneering work on environmental literacy in higher education and his recent work in ecological design.

He spearheaded the effort to fund, design, and build a $7.2 million Environmental Studies Center at Oberlin College, a building described by the New York Times as "the most remarkable" of a new generation of college buildings and selected as one of 30 "milestone buildings in the 20th century" by the U.S. Department of Energy. Orr is recipient of numerous awards and was described by the Cleveland Plain Dealer as "one of those who will shape our lives."

Learn more about Dr. Orr and register to attend our online panel, just 1 week away, at the link in our bio.

#EnvironmentalStudies #EcologicalDesign #EnvironmentalLiteracy #InterdisciplinaryStudies #EnvironmentalEducation #FreeLectureSeries #NonprofitOrganization

Meet our Field Stations lecture series speakers!

Meet our Field Stations lecture series speakers!

Dr. Melinda Laituri is a professor emeritus of geography in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability at @colorado_state_university_. She is the Founding Director of the Geospatial Centroid at CSU that provides support for geospatial research and teaching across the university.

Laituri is a Fulbright Scholar having taught GIS at the University of Botswana and conducted research in the Center for Scientific Research, Indigenous Knowledge, and Innovation on participatory mapping and conservation planning. She is a founding member of the Center for Environmental Justice at CSU.

Dr. Laituri will join our online panel on August 25, just 2 weeks away. Learn more about her and register at the link in our bio.

#EnvironmentalJustice #EnvironmentalStudies #GIS #Planning #GeospatialResearch #FreeLectureSeries #InterdisciplinaryStudies #FieldStations #NonprofitOrganization #Sustainability #Ecology

Explore our $5K and $10K grants for non-profit org

Explore our $5K and $10K grants for non-profit organizations working in the areas of climate change, land issues, and wildlife conservation.

Our application deadline is September 10th, 2021.

Apply via our website: Wright-Ingraham.org

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Meet our Field Stations lecture series speakers!

Meet our Field Stations lecture series speakers!

Dr. Ted Jojola has a distinguished career as an educator and practitioner in urban and regional planning and other related subjects, with a specialty in Indigenous planning. Since 1980, he has taught at the University of New Mexico. He served as the director of both the Native American Studies program and the Community and Regional Planning Program.

Dr. Jojola has an ongoing cultural consultancy with the Native American Cultural Center, Northern Arizona State University, Studio Ma Architects. He conducted community workshops on indigenous planning for the US Department of Justice and regional workshops on tribal community planning, Policy Research Center, National Congress of American Indians in 2008. He has published extensively and has received many recognition awards for the merits of his work.

Dr. Jojola will join our event on environmental education on August 25, just three weeks away.

Learn more about him and register at the link in our bio.

#IndigenousStudies #IndigenousPlanning #CommunityPlanning #InterdisciplinaryResearch #FreeLectureSries #InterdisciplinaryEducation #nativeamericanstudies

We are now accepting grant applications from 501(c

We are now accepting grant applications from 501(c)3 non-profit organizations working in the areas of climate change, land issues, and wildlife conservation. Our application deadline is September 10th, 2021.

To apply for a grant, read about our eligibility criteria and access the grant application form on our website: Wright-Ingraham.org

#NonprofitOrganization #EnvironmentalEducation #InterdisciplinaryResearch #GrantGiving #501c3 #InstitutionBuilding #GrantSeason #GivingProgram #ClimateChange #LandIssues #wildlifeconservation

Just a few weeks away! Join the Wright-Ingraham f

Just a few weeks away!

Join the Wright-Ingraham for our first monthly Field Stations Lecture Series, to be held over Zoom.

Register and join the event early at 3pm MT / 5pm ET to participate in a virtual cocktail hour with the Wright-Ingraham Institute.

Register at the link in our bio.

#EnvironmentalEducation #VirtualCocktails #FreeLectureSeries #ZoomEvent #NonprofitOrganization #InterdisciplinaryStudies #Sustainability #Networking #EnvironmentalStudies

*Introducing the 2021 Field Stations speaker serie

*Introducing the 2021 Field Stations speaker series. Our first speaker series event will take place in less than one month, on Wednesday, August 25!*

Field Stations is a place-based educational workshop focused on social-ecological relationships to land in regions that are experiencing climate change and rapidly changing land use patterns. Our 2021 monthly speaker series, beginning on August 25, examines models for environmental education, relationships between art, science and landscape, energy and extraction, and food and water use in the Southwest.

Field Stations is a program of the Wright-Ingraham Institute, a non-profit organization focused on the environment and integrative studies, founded in Colorado in 1970.

This speaker series builds toward our 2022 in-person educational workshop in the San Juan Basin in Colorado and New Mexico, USA. Interested prospective participants are invited to look at our website or email fieldstations@wright-ingraham.org for more information about the 2022 program.

Register for this event via the link in our bio.

#EnvironmentalEducation #InterdisciplinaryResearch #EcologicalSolidarity #EducationalWorkshop #LandIssues #Sustainability #NonprofitOrganization #placebasedlearning

We're excited to announce the opening of our 2021

We're excited to announce the opening of our 2021 grants season. We are now accepting grant applications from 501(c)3 non-profit organizations working in the areas of climate change, land issues, and wildlife conservation. Our application deadline is September 10th, 2021.

To apply for a grant, read about our eligibility criteria and access the grant application form on our website (link in bio).

#NonprofitOrganization #EnvironmentalEducation #InterdisciplinaryResearch #GrantGiving #501c3 #InstitutionBuilding #GrantSeason #GivingProgram #ClimateChange #LandIssues #WildlifeConservation

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