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Cultivating Resilient Communities of Wellbeing
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Climbing PoeTree
Award-winning multimedia theater, dual-voice
spoken word, visual artists and community
organizers
MDC Wolfson Campus-
Thursday
March 22, 2018 Watch for
Details!
MDC North Campus
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Friday,
March 23, 2018 - Watch for Details!
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National Parks Conservation Association
(NPCA)
Speaker Series
Featuring:
John Adormato, Ani Kame'e nui, Alan Spears
MDC Wolfson Campus, Rm. 6100
Wednesday March 14, 2018
6 – 8 pm
National Parks Conservation
Association is the leading voice for America’s
national parks. Join NPCA’s regional and
lobbying staff to discuss the current state of
national park policy from Capitol Hill to the
parks in our own backyard.
Please
RSVP.
For more information,
contact Alison Walker
at
awalker1@mdc.edu |
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Solar United Neighbors of Florida
Earth Ethics Institute and Miami Dade College
are Proud to Partner with Solar United Neighbors
of Florida
Solar United Neighbors of Florida
expands access to solar electricity by educating
Floridians about the benefits of distributed
solar energy, helping them organize group solar
installations, and strengthening Florida’s solar
policies and its community of solar supporters.
Solar Coop
Information Sessions 7 - 8:30 pm
West
Campus - Thursday, February 8, 2018
Room 1102
Hialeah Campus- Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Room 5101-A
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Earth Ethics Institute, in partnership
with Floridians Against Fracking, Food
and Water Watch, The CLEO Institute, ReThink
Energy, and Physicians for
Social Responsibility, presentt
Dr.
Sandra Steingraber
New Science on the
Risks and Harms of Fracking
Saturday, January 20th, 2018
MDC, Wolfson
Campus - Room 8106
5-6:30 pm
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Join the
Global Sustainability and
Earth Literacy Studies (GSELS) Learning Network
The Global Sustainability and Earth Literacy
Studies (GSELS) Learning Network provides
inclusive educational opportunities for the
Miami Dade College community to explore global
citizenship, ecological sustainability, and
civic engagement, through
understanding planetary
challenges and limits and
by developing values,
skills, and behaviors that
promote prosperity and
communities of well-being.
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Professional Development for MDC
Faculty and Staff |
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Health:
Connecting People Place and Planet-Part
2
A Four-Part Lunch and Learn Series
(Part 1 is a Pre-requisite)
Awarding 12
hours of Professional Development
This workshop focuses on the interconnection of human
health with environmental and community health.
Hialeah Campus - Begins Monday,
January 29, 2018
Facilitated by Mariana Molina
To Register, class
EEI1015-2
Medical Campus - Begins Monday,
January 22, 2018
Facilitated by Colleen Ahern-Hettich
To Register, class
EEI1015-1
North Campus
- Begins Wednesday,
February 7, 2018
Facilitated by Stephen Nesvacil
To Register, class
EEI1015-4
Wolfson Campus
- Begins Wednesday,
January 31, 2018
Facilitated by Alison Walker
To Register, class
EEI1015-3 |
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Food, Ethics and Sustainability –
Part 1
A Five-Part Lunch and Learn Series
Awarding 12
hours of Professional Development
This workshop focuses on food production and
sustainability. The global food web has become
increasingly more complicated with the
industrialization and globalization of our
world. Participants will build upon exploration
of their own relationship with food to delve
deeper into the interconnections between food,
politics, health, environment, ethics and
justice.
Kendall Campus, Five Wednesdays
Beginning
January 24, 2018
To Register, class #
EEI1012-2
Facilitated by Netiva Kolitz
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Food, Ethics and Sustainability –
Part
2
A Five-Part Lunch and Learn Series
(Part 1 is a Pre-requisite)
Awarding 12
hours of Professional Development
This workshop focuses on food production and
sustainability. The global
food web has become increasingly more
complicated with the industrialization and
globalization of our world. Participants
will identify impacts of our eating choices on
farm animals, social justice and human rights
issues. How climate change affects food supply
and how food production impacts climate will be
explored.
Kendall Campus, Five Wednesdays
Beginning
January 24, 2018
To Register, class #
EEI1016-1
Facilitated by TBA
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Reconnecting with Earth
- A New Story
Awarding
12 hours of Professional Development (part 1 is
a pre-requisite)
This workshop explores the appropriate
relationship of human beings to Earth. As
participants engage in readings and discussion
questions, they will share observations and
reflections on our relationship to Earth, the
threats of ecological imbalance, what we can do
to create a paradigm shift and make lasting,
impactful change, and what the role of higher
education is in creating a future generation of
Earth literate citizens.
InterAmerican Campus
- Begins Wednesday,
February 7, 2018
Facilitated by Mike Matthews
To Register, class # EEI1006-3
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GSELS Learning Network:
Transforming Paradigm
Offering 6 hours Professional
Development Credit
This
workshop offers an overview of Earth Ethics
Institute’s Global Sustainability and Earth
Literacy Studies (GSELS) Learning Network.
Participants learn about development and
operations of GSELS. GSELS faculty learn how to
broaden their GSELS-designated courses to
include additional GSELS course criteria, as
well as best practices of faculty learning
communities. Participants explore Sustainable
Education, a concept created by Stephen Sterling
and described as “a change of educational
culture, one which develops and embodies the
theory and practice of sustainability in a way
which is critically aware. Contrast will
be made of mechanistic versus ecological
worldviews, and a multidisciplinary
collaborative approach to education will be
endorsed.
Friday, February 23, 2018 at NorthCampus
Room 1256
To Regster, class #
EEI1010-3
Friday, March 16, 2018 at Kendall
Campus Room K-422
To Regster,
class #
EEI1010-4
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Oleta River State Park
Awarding 4
hours of Professional Development -
Saturday, February 3, 2018 9 am - 1 pm
The immersion will
cover the natural and cultural history
of the largest urban park in the Florida State
Park System. Oleta
River State Park is a 1,043 acre natural and
recreational area surrounded largely by high
density residential and commercial
developmental. Park administrators have
developed alliances with a range of compatible
user groups.
To Register, class #
EEI1003-2
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Frost Science Museum
and Sustainable Design
Awarding 4
hours of Professional Development -
Friday, March 9, 2018
The need for sustainable design and resilient
infrastructure is becoming more and more
apparent in this era of increasing threats due
to climate change. Miami is widely recognized to
be one of the most vulnerable areas of the
United States to sea level rise. The Patricia
and Phillip Frost Science Museum was designed
with this in mind, and serves as a model of
practical applications of sustainable design.
To Register, class #
EEI1020-1
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EEI Retreat
for GSELS Faculty at
Narrow Ridge Earth LIteracy Center
Washburn, TN
Awarding 14 hours of Professional Development -
Thursday, April 5 - Sunday, April 8, 2018
Faculty and staff will
retreat at Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center to
reflect on Culture and Cosmology, Foundations of
Resiliency, and the necesarry Paradigm Shift
that has been EEI's focus from its inception.
Participants
will be encouraged to nurture views that are
compatible with the Earth's systems and to
encourage all to apply these views across the
disciplines into the curriculum at MDC.
Facutly and staff will be selected
from participating GSELS Faculty to
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Programs for
Faculty and Staff-
Ongoing
Global Sustainability
and Earth Literacy Studies (GSELS)
Learning Network
Sustainability Education
Professional Development Opportunities
Sustainability and
Earth Literacy Professional Development
Workshops
Graduate Courses in
Collaboration with EEI
EEI and
Florida International University
(FIU)
Outdoor Immersions Awarding
Professional Development
Sustainability in the
Curriculum
Immersions for Your
Classes
Sustainability
Learning Lunches
Hialeah
IAC
Kendall
North
Wolfson
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Programs for Students
- Ongoing
The Next
Generation of Global Leaders are Stepping Forward - JOIN
US!
Narrow Ridge Earth
Literacy Field Experience - Apply In
December!
Programs and Resources for Students
Earth Literacy and Sustainability I -new course
YES! club
EEI
Service-Learning
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Campus Ecology Program
Student Immersions
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Sustainability and Earth
Literacy
in Curriculum - MDC Faculty
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