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Programs
· Catalyst
· Climate Change Commitment
· EcoTeam
· Expeditions
· Green Calendar
· Green Walkabout
· Heartstone
· Internships
· Lunch and Learn Series
· Mountain Green
· Partnership with Asheville
· Photo Gallery
· Putting Passion to Practice
· Sustainable Campus Practices
· Swannanoa Journal

Environmental Research
· Econ An. of Swain Co Settlement
· Econ An. of WNC non-profits
· Env Research Funding
· Env Research Newsletter
· Horizon 2100
· Mapping Change of Buncombe
· Native Plant Feasibility Study
· Stormwater Analysis

The Environmental Leadership Center
of Warren Wilson College
Campus Box 6323
PO Box 9000
Asheville, NC 28815-9000

828.771.3006

Please refer all questions or comments about this website to Phillip Ray Gibson @

pgibson@warren-wilson.edu

HEARTSTONE

The Environmental Leadership Center is determined to foster the dialogue, develop the leaders, and apply the practices required to implement systemic change. Its vision is global, its focus is regional, and its initiatives are action-oriented and designed to inform the beliefs, policies, and practices of citizens at all levels of involvement in the most pressing environmental issues.

Effective solutions can only be developed by collaboration among all constitutents, environmentalists, business leaders, politicians, scientists, and young emerging leaders. Heartstone seeks to provide the information and provoke the dialog required to plan for a viable future.

The journal Heartstone was first conceived by the Environmental Leadership Center's staff and Expedition participants while canoeing through Northern Ontario in 1999. Inspired by the 'heartstone' discovered en route, and with the support of the Park Foundation and the New York Times Company Foundation, the Environmental Leadership Center is steadily evolving Heartstone into a substantive dialogue on pressing environmental issues.

Contributors to Heartstone's spring 2006 issue, Water, and excerpts from the issue can be viewed as well.

Heartstone Recordings 2006

Warren Wilson College Orchestra - Opening of the 2006 Heartstone Evening Event

Warren Wilson College Orchestra - wade in the water

Warren Wilson College Chorale - bring me little water Sylvie

Warren Wilson College Chorale - river was dry

Warren Wilson College President Dr. Sandy Pfeiffer - remarks at the Environmental Leadership Center luncheon, October 16, 2006

Fiddle solo - by Matthew Turino at the Heartstone evening celebration

Janisse Ray - remarks at the Environmental Leadership Center's Council of Advisor's luncheon on October 16, 2006.

Janisse Ray - reading of her contribution (her first poem) to Heartstone

Julia Kernitz - student observations of her four years at Warren Wilson College and the role of the Environmental Leadership Center in her college career

Sadie Adams - student of Warren Wilson College sharing her experiences with the Environmental Leadership Center

Dr. John Casey - remarks by Warren Wilson College Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College

Ann Turkle - Chair of the Warren Wilson College undergraduate creative writing program - reading at the Heartstone evening celebration

John Lane - reading by author at the Heartstone evening celebration

Gary Lilley - faculty of Warren Wilson College - reading by author at the Heartstone evening celebration

Catherine Reid - author reading at the Heartstone evening celebration

Sebastian Matthews - reading by author - joined by the Warren Wilson College Chorale at the Heartstone evening celebration

Thomas Rain Crowe - reading by the author at the Heartstone evening celebration

Thomas Rain Crowe - performing with flute at the Heartstone evening celebration

MariJo Moore - author reading at the Heartstone evening celebration

Warren Wilson College Chorale - come now and gather at the green