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Session - Education, Fed. Coordination, U.S. Partnership for the Decade
Convener: Alan Hecht, hecht.alan@epa.gov
Jeri Berc, jeri.berc@usda.gov
Participants: Liz Resek, Resek.Elizabeth@epamail.epa.gov
John Huie, jhuie@warren-wilson.edu
Alan Hecht, hecht.alan@epa.gov
David Blockstein, dvid@ncseonline.org
Anita Street, street.anita@epa.gov
Peter Hawley, phawley@planning.org
Greg Crosby, gcrosby@csrees.usda.gov
Jeri Berc, jeri.berc@usda.gov
Headlines:
- Federal Government role to provide good science to enhance decision making.
- Sustainable development larger than environmental education - "integration of environmental economic and social concerns" - needs to be clearly defined.
- Value of recognition and awards.
- Need to establish experiential/community passed sustainable development learning centers.
- Opportunities to share experiences, resources - need a clearinghouse - possibility through Decade Partnership.
- Need metrics for sustainable development to operationalize it and benchmarks.
- Need training programs for federal employees; add sustainability to all training for feds.
- Engage youth
- Need training for planner.
- Need inventory of federal sustainability programs.
- Need to support systems research and higher education curriculum development of sustainability development.
- Establish mechanism to match public and private resources for large initiatives (possibly environmental education foundation (EPA))
- EPA may help CEQ reactivate the CEQ education of the year award - and see if it can be geared to sustainability development education.
