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Click here to download the Winter, 2011 issue of Connections.

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Winter, 2011 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Winter, 2011 (Volume 32, Number 2)

Articles and features included:

  • Your GEOEC Executive 2011/12
  • Water Panel Discussion, by Aminollah Sabzevari
  • The Making of a Movement: Youth Engagement and the Global Youth Assembly, by Amy Lambe
  • The History of What? Some Thoughts on Personal Habits and Global Citizenship, by Karen Virag
  • Watershed Management Planning in the North Saskatchewan River Basin, by Melissa Logan and Billie Milholland
  • Learning on the Water: My First Canoe Trip as an Outdoor Education Teacher, by Leah Copeland
  • An Unlikely Partnership: Space Industry and the Water Crisis, by Laura Rose
  • A While in the Wild: How a Place-Based Environmental Program Toward Extended Outdoor Experiences Influences Kindergarten Students' Empathy with the Environment, by Jonas A Cox, Charles V Salina and Fay C Mascher
  • … and more


Click here to download the Fall, 2011 issue of Connections.

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Fall, 2011 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Fall, 2011 (Volume 32, Number 1)

Articles and features included:

  • GEOEC Award Winners
  • GEOEC Member Wins a Juno
  • The Politics of Organic Food: How to Have Your Organic Cake and Eat It Too, by Sean Ryan
  • Skill Centre: Green Initiatives in Culinary Arts, by Jaryd Murray
  • Growing Environmental Awareness Through Horticulture, by Brent Andressen
  • Seeds of Change: A Multidisciplinary Study of Local Food Growth and Sustainability, by Pamela Clark
  • Eight Food Rules from My 10-Mile Diet, by Vicki Robin
  • Locally Grown Produce, by Brian Dunning
  • Caveat Consumptor: Food Consumers Must Protect Themselves, by Karen Virag
  • Food for Rot: Community Gardens Inspire New Lesson Plans, by Mark Stumpf-Allen
  • Your School Community Garden, by Karin Davidson-Taylor
  • … and more


Click here to download the Winter, 2010 issue of Connections.

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Winter, 2010 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Winter, 2010 (Volume 31, Number 1)

Articles and features included:

  • Join the GEOEC Executive and Make a Difference
  • Call for Award Nominations
  • Place-Based Education: Starting from Our Own Communities, by Elizabeth Halpenny
  • Place Value: Ecological Education in Northwest Calgary, by Polly Knowlton Cockett
  • What Can We Do? The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, by Chris Goudreau
  • Live Dangerously: 10 Easy Steps, by Shannon Hayes
  • Learning in Outdoor Education - Some Reflections on What Is Important to Students in Outdoor Education and How Research Can Change What We Notice About Our Practice, by Robyn Zink
  • … and more


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Summer, 2010 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Summer, 2010 (Volume 30, Number 2)

Articles and features included:

  • 2010 Awards, by Rita Poruchny
  • Glimpses of a GEOEC Executive Planning Meeting, by Peter Lenton
  • Creating a Legacy Together - A Conference for Global Citizenship 2010, by Shashi Shergill
  • Making Things Happen, by Glyn Hughes
  • Students 4 Change, by Sabrina Niesman
  • The Story of Gap Jeans, by Emily Bolton
  • In 2025 - Who Are the Environmentalists? by Cliff Lacey
  • Sustaining the Soul ... the Song of the Cedar Flute, by Janina Skutle Carlstad
  • … and more


Click here to download the Winter, 2009 issue of Connections.

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Winter, 2009 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Winter, 2009 (Volume 30, Number 1)

Articles and features included:

  • GEOEC Conference 2009 – One World: Infinite Diversity, by Erin Couillard
  • Join the GEOEC Executive and Make a Difference, by Erin Couillard
  • Thinking Outside the Toy Box: A Case For Environment-Based Preschool Education, by Cara Linzmayer
  • Promoting a Sense of Place for Children in Natural Areas, by Glen Hvenegaard
  • Habitat in the Balance, by Stephen Jeans and David Lunn
  • … and more


Click here to download the Fall, 2008 issue of Connections.

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Fall, 2008 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Fall, 2008 (Volume 29, Number 2)

Articles and features included:

  • GEOEC - What's the Connection? by Noel Jantzie
  • A Message from the President, by Rita Poruchny
  • GEOEC Hits the Green Street: Environmental and Global Education
  • Keeping Nature in Mind: A New Environmental Music Festival Takes Flight, by Peter Lenton
  • No Doubt About Doubtful Sound, by Sharon Vogrinetz

    … and more


Click here to download the Fall, 2006 issue of Connections.

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Fall, 2006 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Fall, 2006 (Volume 29, Number 1)

Articles and features included:

  • From the Editor, by Sara Coumantarakis
  • Imagine Yourself Here: A Conference 2005 Photo Essay, by Elise Maltin
  • Ahimsa and Teaching, by Reva Joshee
  • Being Socially Responsible in Your Financial Choices, by Michele Jolley
  • Life in China: A Pictorial Special on Bicycles, by Gail Soliski
  • Rural Roots: A Youth Action Project, by Fiona Cavanagh and Matthew Gusul

    … and more


Click here to download the Spring, 2003 issue of Connections.

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Spring, 2003 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Spring, 2003 (Volume 27, Number 3)

Articles and features included:

  • Prairie Drought Connects Us Globally, by Louella Cronkhite
  • From the Heart of a Good Farmer, by Rebecca Lippiatt-Long
  • The Rain Barrel Returns! by Brian Johnston
  • Gardens That Honour the Earth and its Water Resources, by Karin Adshead
  • Winning Through Partnering in the Out-of-Doors, by Murray Toft and Bert East
  • Water Usage, by Louella Cronkhite
  • Trees, by Janina M. Carlstad
  • Resource Feature: Safety Guidelines for Physical Activity in Alberta Schools and Safety Guidelines for Secondary Interschool Athletics in Alberta
  • New Resource to Help Evaluate the Success of Environmental Education Programs, by Gareth Thomson and Jenn Hoffman

    … and more


Click here to download the Winter, 2003 issue of Connections.

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Winter, 2003 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Winter, 2003 (Volume 27, Number 2)

Articles and features included:

  • Truly Intentional Co-operative Living, by Jackie Avent
  • Communities Reclaiming Their Food System: The Role of Organic Agriculture, by Doug Bone
  • Helping Students Work Towards Sustainable Communities, by Janina M. Carlstad
  • Sustainability: What Does It Mean? by Matthew Hiebert
  • When History Comes Alive, So Do We, by Rebecca Lippiat-Long
  • Perma-What? by Janet Pivnick

    … and more


Click here to download the Fall, 2002 issue of Connections.

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Fall, 2002 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Fall, 2002 (Volume 27, Number 1)

Articles and features included:

  • Biodiversity: Conserving the Web of Life, by Jason Thomson
  • Challenging Assumptions: Rethinking What It Means to be Different, by Barb Maheu
  • Alberta’s North Country: The Canadian Shield, by Carey Booth
  • Bio-What?!, by Gareth Thomson
  • Celebrating the Uniqueness of the Individual, by Karin Adshead
  • Create Reality Through Diversity, by Sharon Rempel
  • Connecting People and Nature, by Tonya Stoutt-Brown and Jeremy Lloyd
  • Reflections, by Hoda Ghamrawy
  • School Yard Ecology: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally, by Kirsten F. Mah

    … and more


Click here to download the Summer, 2002 issue of Connections.

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Summer, 2002 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Summer, 2002 (Volume 26, Number 3)

Articles and features included:

  • Just What Is the GEOEC, Anyway? by Jeff Reading and Peter Lenton
  • Conference 2003: Call for Presenters
  • Current Trends in Cultural Change, by Matt Hiebert
  • Where Have All the Mammals Gone? An Awakening, by Sonia MacPherson
  • Greening Up in “Oilberta”, by Richard Merry
  • Our Collective Need to Balance Human Rights with Human Responsibilities, by Colin L. Soskolne
  • Earth Education: Focused Programs That Create Change, by Roy Strum
  • “If You Can Talk, You Can Sing”: The Raging Grannies, by Karin Adshead
  • Talking in Circles, by Wes Gietz

    … and more


Click here to download the Spring, 2002 issue of Connections.

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Spring, 2002 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Spring, 2002 (Volume 26, Number 2)

Articles and features included:

  • Conference 2002: On the Brink: Educating for Hope
  • Teaching Peace: A Place to Begin, by Sara Coumantarakis
  • Teaching Mathematics for Peace, by David Wagner
  • Learning Our Relations: Teaching Reverence for Living Beings, by Sonia MacPherson
  • From Apartheid to Alberta, by Charlene Hay
  • Creating Our Common Future: Transcending the Limits of Problem Solving, by Bruce Elkin
  • The Ellerslie Campus Landscaping and Naturalization Program: An Opportunity for Success with Students, by Don Kenyon
  • Bringing Biodiversity to the Backyard Garden and the Kitchen Table

    … and more


Click here to download the Winter, 2002 issue of Connections.

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Winter, 2002 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Winter, 2002 (Volume 26, Number 1)

Articles and features included:

  • GEOEC Brochure Makeover Contest
  • Conference 2001: The Secrets to Our Success, by Gareth Thomson
  • Conference 2002: On the Brink: Educating for Hope, by Sara Coumantarakis
  • Storytelling: Why? by Karin Adshead
  • How the Eagle Got Its Wings and the Otter Got Its Webbed Feet, by Karin Adshead
  • Wordless Stories, by Wes Gietz
  • Welcome to the Bow Valley: Conference 2001 Keynote Address, by Mike McIvor
  • Flowers Tell a Story: Plantwatch, by Laura Frost
  • Encouraging Environmental Literacy Through Music, by Peter Lenton
  • Finding the Spirit of Place in Our Communities, by Sharon Rempel
  • Writing Freestyle Poetry, by Les Curthoys
  • Green Street: The Latest in Urban Development, by Elaine Gordon

    … and more


Click here to download the Fall, 2001 issue of Connections.

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Fall, 2001 issue of Connections.

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GEOEC Connections
Fall, 2001 (Volume 25, Number 3)

Articles and features included:

  • We Care! by Louella Cronkhite
  • Youthsafe Outdoors: Risk Management in School Outdoors Pursuits, by Glenda Hanna
  • Connecting with Nature at Petro-Canada Bird School, by Cathy Cochrane and Kym McCulley
  • Envisioning Environmental Education, by Rebecca Lippiatt-Long
  • Putting the Multiple Intelligences Theory into Practice, by Phyllis Chmiliar
  • Conference 2002 Preview

    … and more