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· 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

"Putting Passion to Practice" Lunch & Learn Series

Ever wondered how others have succeeded in achieving their life goals? Want to know how to influence change or how to put your passion into practice? The Environmental Leadership Center, Career Services and the G.D. Davidson Roundtable are partnering to bring leaders of social and environmental change to campus so that WWC students may hear their stories and how they have managed to put their own passion to practice. Please join us in Mierke C on the following dates. For more information, contact Phillip Ray Gibson at 771-3781 or pgibson@warren-wilson.edu.

WWC Alum (2001) Matt Drury showing and sharing stories of his time with the Peace Corps in Vanuatu. While at WWC, Matt served in an ELC internship in Long Island. He was on the WWC Forestry Work Crew and an ENS major.

April 27, 2007 Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer

May 2, 2007 Doug Ruley, Southern Environmental Law Center

May 9, 2007 Mike Horak, The Nature Conservancy

September 21, 2007 Matt Drury, Warren Wilson Alum, Class of 2001 Environmental
Studies/Forestry major and former member of Natural Resources Crew
here to speak about his three year assignment for the Peace Corps in
Vanuatu Island in the Southwest Pacific.
http://kerepuavillage.blogspot.com/

October 12, 2007 Jane Preyer, Executive Director, NC Office of Environmental Defense
member of the Warren Wilson College Board of Trustees
http://www.ed.org/page.cfm?tagID=959

November 2, 2007 Julie Vann, Western Project Manager
Ecosystem Enhancement Program
http://www.nceep.net/

November 16, 2007 Taylor Barnhill, Executive Director, SouthWings
http://www.southwings.org/

Above is Matt Drury with (L to R) Julie Lehman, Ellen Querin (ELC), Jon Hettrick (Alumni Relations), and Bates Canon. Photos by Phillip Ray Gibson.

Below are photos of Doug Ruley with students and staff of WWC.

Below are photos of Sylvia Earle during her presentation at the Lunch and Learn Series