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Click to download the 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
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Click to download the 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
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Click to download the 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
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Click to download the 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
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Click to download the 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
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Click to download the 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
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Click to download the 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
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Click to download the 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
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Click to download the 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
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Click to download the 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
- Albertas 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
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Click to download the 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
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Click to download the 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
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Click to download the 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
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Click to download the 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
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