ENVIROSCAPE NEWS
Although there was only one winner picked from the drawing for a new EnviroScape Nonpoint Source model, several hundred educators attending the North American Association of Environmental Educators (NAAEE) conference in Atlanta came to the EnviroScape booth to test their luck. Each applicant wrote down excellent objectives and plans for using EnviroScape and each one deserved to be a winner. Bora Simmons of Northern Illinois University and Panel Organizer for the conference drew the lucky winner. Liz LeFrancois from the National Water Issues Branch of Environment Canada will receive the green EnviroScape case and contents at her office in Quebec soon. Liz plans to begin using the Nonpoint Source model with the Girl Guide's "Yellow Fish" storm water drain program, as well as make it available to schools and associations. The focus of the NAAEE conference was "Environmental Education in the Urban Setting." The EnviroScape development team is finishing the peer review of the EnviroScape Coastal model and beginning the planning phase for an EnviroScape Urban model. Many participants at the Atlanta conference added their name to the list of potential peer review members. If you would like to be included in the initial Urban model development and review, please contact our Headquarters at (703) 631-8810, fax (703) 631-6558 or email: info@enviroscapes.com Funding Assistance. If you are interested in using the EnviroScape program but are not able to fund a model, you are encouraged to contact Teren MacLeod at the program office at (360) 379-3105 or e-mail support@enviroscapes.com. You will be asked to work with Teren to identify and contact cost-sharing and/or funding partners to initiate an EnviroScape program based on your individual needs and interest.
This past summer, EnviroScape's new vice president, Teren MacLeod, took to the open roads to meet EnviroScape users from across the country. The EnviroScape "Summer Tour went coast to coast from Washington up into Canada and down through Montana into the Great Lakes Region and across to Virginia. Peppered along the way were meetings with EnviroScape users and potential users, participation in water quality education programs, demonstrations of the new EnviroScape Landfill model and involvement in various workshops and events. A new bunch of users' tips were shared, including extension activities for the community and the classroom. Many of these we will be shared with you on the web site and in future newsletters. One such extension is a marvelous activity called "Envirosnack" created by Laura DeGuire and made available from Linda Humphreys, Environmental Education Coordinator at Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Thank you, Linda for allowing us to make this available to other EnviroScape users.
MICHIGAN DEQ ENVIROSCAPE CURRICULUM ADDENDUM ENVIROSNACKS Envirosnack concept created by Laura DeGuire The perfect choice for the environmentally conscious classroom. Excellent activity for the elementary grades. Older kids like 'em too!
Now Eat Your
Envirosnack and Enjoy!
Many of the educators attending a Workshop sponsored by the Ohio Federation of Soil & Water Conservation Districts either had an EnviroScape model or were using one as part of a cost-sharing program initiated by Jeanne Russell, Nonpoint Source Education Coordinator for Ohio DNR. Jeanne has been instrumental in the purchase of over forty models, used by close to 70 of the 88 conservation districts in the state for outreach and education on nonpoint source pollution. The Ohio EnviroScape program has well-developed loaner programs, evaluation criteria and extension activities in place. If the Workshop was any indication, these educators have a lot of useful tips to share with all of us.
New
EnviroScape warehouse brings order fulfillment in-house. The
EnviroScape team is gearing up for increased awareness and use of the EnviroScape
program. In addition to the customer service and program support already
in place, EnviroScape will be managing all orders from a new warehouse location
in Virginia. Lura Svestka, manager of operations, remarked, "This addition
to EnviroScape services will allow for better tracking of orders for clients
and more efficient order processing. We are already customer-oriented. Now
we can be even more responsive." EnviroScape opens in Washington State. Along with enhanced order fulfillment and support, EnviroScape is expanding its customer service to include a western office in Washington State. Teren MacLeod, vice president and educational liaison, is now managing EnviroScape's program and public awareness activities out of a new Program Office in Port Townsend, Washington.
This will allow
for an EnviroScape presence on both coasts within important geographic locations
and environmental areas. MacLeod said, "Water issues are important everywhere.
In the Pacific Northwest, where we are surrounded by waterways, mountains
and forests, we are reminded daily why pollution prevention practices are
important for everyone to understand."
New
website at www.enviroscapes.com **Price Increase as of January 1999** Previous Issues Available Online Volume 6, Number 1 -- Spring 1998 Volume 5, Number 3 -- Summer 1997 Volume 5, Number 2 -- March/April 1997 Volume 5, Number 1 -- January/February 1997
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