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Environmental Leadership Center
Warren Wilson College
Campus Box 6323
P.O. Box 9000
Asheville, NC 28815-9000

828.771.3006

Please refer comments or questions about this website to Phillip Ray Gibson @ pgibson@warren-wilson.edu.

The Environmental Leadership Center

News This Week:

Check out the Warren Wilson/ELC story in January's issue of YES magazine:
http://www.yesmagazine.org/EdConnectionNews/jan10/jan10_web.html

UPCOMING!

CANCELED!! FEBRUARY 5 - Land Use and Its Impacts on Biodiversity; 3 - 5 p.m., Canon Lounge;

John Gerwin, Curator of Birds, NC Museum of Natural Sciences

MARCH 4 - Small Business and Sustainability; 3 - 5 p.m., Canon Lounge;
Kim Elena Bullock, Sustainability Manager, Counter Culture Coffee

APRIL 1 - Sustainability and the Search for Common Ground, Naomi Tutu; 7:15 p.m., Kittredge Theatre

APRIL 19 - Heartstone Writers Appalachian Celebration of Earth Day with Janisse Ray joined by Thomas Rain Crowe, Keith Flynn, Catherine Reid, Sebastian Matthews and WWC musicians and dancers; 7:15 p.m., Canon Lounge

APRIL 22 - Taking Responsibility for A Sustainable World; 3 - 5 p.m., Canon Lounge
Maggie Ullman, Energy Coordinator, City of Asheville Office of Sustainability
Chris Mathis, President, MC2

JUNE 23 – Annual Mountain Green Sustainable Communities Conference; featured speakers White House Director of Environmental Quality (invited), Dr. Bill Thomas, and Robin Griggs Lawrence of Natural Home Magazine along with an array of presenters.

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VISIT OUR REGIONAL GREEN CALENDAR THAT IS UPDATED DAILY! Look to the navigation bar on the left of this screen.

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New Swannanoa Journal articles have been recorded and are available by clicking on the link to the left. WWC President Sandy Pfeiffer contributed an article during the Fall Semester of 2009!

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About the ELC:

Launched in January 1996, the mission of the Warren Wilson College Environmental Leadership Center (ELC) is to raise awareness of local, national and global environmental realities and to inspire caring citizens - especially our youth - to reflect, to communicate, and to act as responsible caretakers of the earth. The ELC is integral to and supports the central mission of Warren Wilson College - to provide an education combining liberal arts study, work, and service, with a strong commitment to environmental responsibility and experiential opportunities for international and cross-cultural understanding in a setting that promotes wisdom, spiritual growth, and contribution to the common good.

The Environmental Leadership Center is determined to foster the dialog, 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 address the most pressing environmental issues

Check out this opportunity to express your passion for the great wild places ... The Rowell Award

Warren Wilson College Trustee Jim Kuhns has shared this opportunity with us. Consider applying for the The Rowell Award. It celebrates he accomplishments of famed adventurers and photographers Galen and
Barbara Rowell, who died in a plane crash in 2002. The Rowell Award honors that adventurer whose artistic passion illuminates the wild places of the world, and whose accomplishments significantly benefit
both the environment and the people who inhabit these lands and regions. For more information about the Rowell Award, please visit
www.rowellaward.com http://www.rowellaward.com/.

Listen to the Swannanoa Journal - Mondays on WNCW 88.7 FM at 8:45 a.m. AND on WPVM 103.5 on Saturdays at 11 a.m. Or you may listen to them via the ELC website - note the link on the left.