EECOM 2016 is purposefully taking place in the Heart of the Turtle Mountains in the geographic centre of Turtle Island.

Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication

Annual Conference 2016 Thurs Aug 25 - Sun Aug 28

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Saturday August 277:00 - 8:00 AM ★ Breakfast 7:45 - 8:15 AM ▲ EECOM AGM8:15 - 8:45 AM ▲ Afternoon workshop introduction and Launch of Dakota College of Bottineau Horticultural Program at IPG 8:45 - 10:15 AM Presentations10:15 - 10:45 AM ★ Coffee 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Workshops12:15 - 12:45 PM Lunch Collect Bag Lunch for afternoon12:45 - 3:00 PM Place Based Environmental Learning Mapping Workshop3:00 - 3:30 PM ★ Coffee 3:30 - 5:00 PM ▲ Keynote and Q&A: Dr. Samantha Nutt5:00 - 5:15 PM ▲ Closing6:30 - 8:00 PM ♦ Dinner: EECOM Awards8:30 - 10:30 PM ▲ Entertainment Sierra Noble

Sunday: August 288:00 AM to 9:00 AM Breakfast9:00 AM to 12:00 PM EECOM Board Strategic Planning

Friday August 267:00 - 8:00 AM ★ Breakfast All day Registration 8:15 - 8:45 AM ▲ Greetings, Opening Prayer and Welcome to Traditional Lands 8:45 - 9:45 AM ▲ Panel with Dr. Carol Davis & Niigaan Sinclair Moderator Peter Denton9:45 - 10:15 AM ★ Coffee 10:15 - 11:45 AM Presentations 4 speakers per theme @ 20 min per speaker 10 min Q&A12:00 - 12:45 PM ★ Lunch12:45 - 1:15 PM ▲ Greetings - Minister of Sustainable Development - Hon. Cathy Cox 1:15 - 2:00 PM ▲ Keynote: Peter Denton2:15 - 3:45 PM Workshops3:45 - 4:15 PM ★ Coffee 4:15 - 5:45 PM Workshops 6:30 - 7:30 PM ★ Dinner 8:00 - 10:00 PM ▲ Entertainment Sweet Alibi

Catch Sierra Noble Saturday night! Singer-songwriter Sierra Noble has been one of Winnipeg, Manitoba’s most promising young talents since releasing her first instrumental fiddle album at age 14. Well known for most of her life as a fiddle champion who breezes through numerous styles of music with stunning ease, Sierra’s breadth of experience in music and in life at 25 is nothing short of impressive.

On behalf of the Conference Co-Chairs (Bob Adamson, Garry Enns, Christina McDonald), thank you to our generous sponsors, who have made donations or substantial contributions in kind.

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In the heart of the Turtle MountainsInternational Peace Garden Manitoba

EECOM 2016 will provide educators with new hope and ideas, new tools and resources, and will look at the choices we can make to make this culture of change a reality.

Access the conference program and full workshop descriptions on your mobile device at eecom.org

Join the conversation: #ChoosetheFuture2016

Dr. Samantha Nutt is a respected authority for many of North America’s leading media outlets. She is a regular foreign affairs panelist on the acclaimed CBC TV NEWS The National with Peter Mansbridge.

Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication

Annual Conference 2016 Thurs Aug 25 - Sun Aug 28

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Activist, ethicist and writer Peter Denton has taught university and college students for nearly 30 years on many different aspects of what a sustainable future requires. He is author or editor of six books, including Gift Ecology: Reimagining a Sustainable World (2012); Technology and Sustainability (2014) and Live Close to Home (Fall 2016).

A United Church of Canada minister, with a Ph.D. in Religion and Social Sciences, he is Adjunct Associate

Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair is Anishinaabe (St. Peter’s/Little Peguis) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba.

He is a regular commentator on Indigenous issues on CTV, CBC, and APTN, and his written work can be found in the pages of The Exile Edition of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama, newspapers like The Guardian, and online with CBC Books: Canada Writes. Niigaan is the co-editor of the award-winning Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water

Keynote Peter Denton

Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. In 2014, two Maasai communities in Kenya honoured him as an elder for his work there in sustainable development.

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Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair

and Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through Stories, and is the Editorial Director of The Debwe Series with Portage and Main Press.

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Dr. Samantha NuttDr. Nutt was named one of Canada’s 25 Transformational Canadians by The Globe and Mail, and has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Time Magazine has featured her as one of Canada’s Five Leading Activists. In July 2011, Dr. Nutt was appointed to the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest civilian honour, for her contributions to improving the plight of young people in the world’s worst conflict zones.

Thursday August 258:00 AM to 9:00 PM Registration

Pre-Conference9:00 AM to 4:00 PM EECOM Leadership Summit By invitation only6:00 - 8:30 PM Dinner8:30 - 11:00 PM Reception Open to all attendees

Anticipated Venue at IPG▲ Burdick Performing Arts Centre● Cushman Hall▲ Fine Arts Centre★ Howard Hall● IMC Administration Building■ IMC Dance Studio♦ Interpretive Centre★ Oak Leaf Picnic Area★ Peterson Dining Hall■ Rendt Hall■ Timmerman Theatre

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Kari Riddell Prompting Empathy and a Connection to the Natural World Through Puppetry (45m) *W G1-5 ▲

Food Grains Bank Naomi Happychuck Good Soil: A campaign to end hunger by supporting small-scale farmers. *W (45m) C ▲

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Waste Climate Change Water FoodSion Lanini Empowering kids as superheroes to lead change in their families (20m) G1-5 ■

Shannon Dyck Student Action for a Sustainable Future(20m) G6-8 ■

Jacqueline Monteith Focus on First Nation outreach and teacher motivations in connection with the Frontier School Division and the Manitoba Envirothon. (20m) G9-12 ■

Tom EthansTake Pride Winnipeg. Connecting Community to Schools (20m) All ■

Bonnie Shapiro & Polly Knowlton Cockett How do learning environments speak environmental values? (45m) *W ▲

Tabitha Martens Caring for our Watersheds - Ideas to Action (20m) G9-12 ■

Tiffiny Taylor Your School Can Make a Difference! CoCoRaHS is a precipitation monitoring network of volunteers. (20m) All ■

Shane Robbins Manitoba Conservation Districts (20m) ■

Christina McDonald Educating the Leaders of Tomorrow: Green Manitoba’s Sustainability Education Initiatives G6-8 (25m) ■

Alan Warner Crunch the Munch: Developing a Sustainable Food Culture in Your Organization (90m) A ●

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Julie Lepine How to embrace First Nations content in minerals education. Explore the natural world with different lenses and create an inclusive classroom by introducing students to connections made with FNMI systems of knowledge. . (90m) *W G6-8 ▲

Patrick Robertson Tools for Inspiring Action – GreenLearning’s Transformative Educational Programs(45m) *HW G9-12 ■

Elanor Waslander Ontario EcoSchools: reflecting on 10 years of certification and exploring new opportunities(45m) *HW NGO+S ■

Lizabeth Nicholls & Natalie Bays New French Projet WET, Module 1 - Bilingual Water Education. Enjoy fun, hands-on, inquiry based learning activities*HW (120m) G1-5 ●

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Pamela GibsonGroup Knowledge Building to Explore Complex Issues

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Kent Lewarne Journey 2050 (45m) *HW G9-12 ▲

Peter Denton Comparative Strategies for Food Security from North to South*HW (45m) G9-12 U C ▲Mitchell Timmerman

Innovative agri-environmental extension can engage wide-ranging audiences regarding water security. *HW (45m) U ▲

Polly Knowlton Cockett, Chris Beeman, Victor Elderton, Bob Jickling, Remy Rodden & Shelley Serebrin Wild Pedagogies: River as Teacher *HW (45m) U ▲

Amy Sparks Empathetic Water Design *HW (90m) G6-8 ▲

Tim Grant Holistic Education in Grades 6 -8 *HW (45m) G6-8 ●

Anju Bajaj Household Income, Food Insecurity and Occurrence of Cardiac Risk Factors in Canadian Adolescents (25m) C ▲

Matt Henderson Designing Experiences for Change: Experimental Lakes Area Field Course (20m) G9-12 ●

Chantelle Masson Educating Youth in the Eastern Arctic on Climate Change. (20m) G9-12 ●

Kathleen Aikens & Jaylene Murray Sustainability and Education Policy: National Research on K-12 Education in Canada. (20m) G ●

John MurrayThe Deep Time of Climate Change. (20m) All ●

Megan Redmond Justice in a Changing Climate – Simulation for Middle Years (90m) *HW G6-8 ■ ★

Jason Armstrong Energy systems and climate change - a primer on the science (90m) *HW G9-12 ●

Susan Lindsay Climate Change Connection (90m) W ■

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Tim Grant Teaching the Greatest Challenge of Them All: Climate Change(90m) *HW G1 -5 ●

Natasha SarkarMoving Thoughtfully from Awareness to Action through Successful Partnerships(90m) *HW K- 12 ■

Kory Bonnell How Do Students in Rural, Suburban and Urban/Inner City Areas Perceive the Environment? (20m) G9-12 ●

Jaclyn Diduck Recycle Everywhere 101 - Moving beyond the bin(20m) All+C ●

John Murray The Sustainability Sciences: A New Paradigm. (20m) All ●

Orlagh O’Sullivan Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Waste Management in Manitoba (20m) U-I-G ●

Brian Smith The Nexus Between Creative Problem-Solving and Environmental Education. *W (90m) G6-8 ●

Kathleen Aikens & Jaylene Murray Climate Change and Education: A SWOT Analysis of the Canadian Public Education System*W (45 m) G ■

Carolee Buckler Manitoba Education Overview of Curriculum Connections and Manitoba’s ESD International Role (20m) ■

Suzan Shahin & Rahaf Ajaj (United Arab Emirates University) Climate Change and Food Security (30m) ■

Pamela Gibson Transformative Pedagogies and Systems Thinking - a Water Example *W (90 m) G1-5 ■

Kent Lewarne River Watch Monitoring Our Local Waterways! Exploring the Riverwatch Program. 90m G9-12 ▲

Zack Gross Fair Trade: Supporting the Aspirations of Global Southern Producers(90m) C ■

Erika Momeyer Walking Wednesday: Taking Your Classroom Outside *HW (90m) G1-5 ★

Kent Lewarne Nourishing the Planet in the 21st Century *HW (90m) G9-12 ■

Barret Miller Seeds of Change: Using Plants To Personalize Climate Issues *HW (90m) G6-8 ■

Leah Japp Growing Up WILD *HW (90m) G1-5 ●

Betty Lynxleg Moving Toward Sustainability through First Nations Traditional Concepts for Education. *W (90m) G9-12 ■

Jason Armstrong Newtonian Shift: A role-playing simulation that allows players to experience decades of energy transition in one day. (180m) *HW G9-12 ▲

Katrina Froese & Michelle Watts Arctic Science Day: Using outdoor, real-world learning to connect Grade 7-12 students with Arctic climate change research*W (90m) G9-12 ●

Tim Grant Climate change and Invasive Species Education *HW (90m) G1-5

reSeArCH *W (90m) G9 -12 ▲

Jen Duffy Inspiring a Generation of Jane Goodalls *HW (90m) All ■

Johan Stroman Reframing Senior Biology - Sustainability Education and Climate Change through student’s eyes. *W (90m) G9-12 ▲

Dr. Carol Davis is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa.

In the early 1970s Carol helped establish Turtle Mountain Community College. From 1988 to 2006 she was an administrator at Turtle Mountain Community College. She retired from North Dakota State University in 2011.

“I firmly believe in setting high goals for Native American students and employees and providing the support to enable them to reach those goals.”

She is a tribal elder who is active in the “No Fracking Way Turtle Mountain Tribe” committee, which helped to ban fracking on the Turtle Mountain Reservation. She was a member of the committee that wrote the Turtle Mountain Tribal Water

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Keynote Carol Davis Act that was adopted by the Turtle Mountain Tribe in 2015.

Dr. Davis is a founding member and Senior Associate of the Tribal Nations Research Group, organized to help the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa make good decisions based on quality research that supports the cultural values of the tribe.

Dr. Davis and her husband reside at Turtle Mountain, where she enjoys spending time with family, especially her 19 grandchildren.

Be sure to catch Sweet Alibi Friday night! Hailing from what has been described as the music capital of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, WCMA award winners Sweet Alibi (Jess Rae Ayre, Amber Rose and Michelle Anderson) captivate audiences with their charming and personal performances.

Anticipated Venue at IPG

▲ Burdick Performing Arts Centre● Cushman Hall▲ Fine Arts Centre★ Howard Hall● IMC Administration Building■ IMC Dance Studio♦ Interpretive Centre★ Oak Leaf Picnic Area★ Peterson Dining Hall■ Rendt Hall■ Timmerman Theatre