[Sust-mar] Bridgewater SENSE networking meeting

[Janelle Frail]

INVITATION: You are invited to attend the
Bridgewater SENSE network meeting. Come hear local organizations, community
groups, schools and businesses are doing regarding sustainability education in
and around Bridgewater.

 

Hear from Leon de Vreede, Sustainability Planner for the
town of Bridgewater, Jim Drescher with Windhorse Farms, Andrea Cleland with
Global Education Association, The Nodding Group, Rosmarie Bradley with Helping
Nature Heal, Amanda Lavers with Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute, and Bettina
Grunwald with Claussen Walters Real Estate.

 

The meeting will take place on Friday, January 23rd
from 10am to 3pm and will be held at the NSCC Lunenburg campus in Bridgewater
located at 75 High Street, five minutes from Highway 103. 

 

Networking meetings for formal, non-formal and information
educators provide a great opportunity to learn from one another, share
resources and organize our activities with the aim of advancing all of our
visions and missions. It’s a great chance to see what organizations, groups and
businesses are doing in relation to sustainable education in and around
Bridgewater.

 

Bring your business cards and materials to share with
others. 

 

Agenda:

 

10-11am Introductions and SENSE overview

 

11-12:30pm Keynote speaker presentation: Leon de Vreede,
Sustainability Planner for the town of Bridgewater



 
12:30-12:40pm
Community presentations by: Jim Drescher with Windhorse Farms

12:40-12:50pm
Andrea Cleland with Global Education Association

12:50-1pm The
Nodding Group

 

1-1:45pm Catered lunch provided

 

2-2:10pm Community
presentations continued: Rosmarie Bradley with Helping Nature Heal

 2:10-2:20pm Amanda Lavers with Mersey
Tobeatic Research Institute

2:20-2:30pm
Bettina Grunwald with Claussen Walters Real Estate

2:230-2:50pm
Community presentations continued (tentative presentation by Parkview Education
Centre and Bridgewater High School)

 

2:50-3pm Community linking and closing

 

 

If you are interested in attending please RSVP by January
21 by e-mail: esd_novascotia at lsf-lst.ca
or by calling 453-6191  so I can
schedule you in and ensure adequate catering. 

 

 

SENSE (Sustainability Education in Nova Scotia for Everyone)
is a group of organizations, businesses and individuals dedicated to the promotion
of ideas and practices that will help Nova Scotia become sustainable. SENSE is
part of a national network of Provincial and Territorial Working Groups
striving to achieve the objectives of the United Nations Decade of Education
for Sustainable Development (ESD) from 2005-2014. For more information on SENSE
please see: http://www.nsen.ca/education.php

 

Storm date Monday, January 26 at Bridgewater Fire Department’s hall
located at 81 Dominion Street.  

 

 

 Directions:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Bridgewater&state=NS&address=75+High+Street

There is onsite parking available.

 Storm
date Monday, January 26 at Bridgewater Fire Department's hall located at 81
Dominion Street.  

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Bridgewater&state=NS&address=81+Dominion&zipcode=B4V

 

 

 



-- 
Janelle Frail
Sustainability Education Coordinator
E: esd_novascotia at lsf-lst.ca
T: 905.454.6846
F: 902.454.6846
www.nsen.ca
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