The Boston TEE
(Total Environmental Education) Party
Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
August 6-10, 2002


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  • Keynote Speakers' Biographies
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  • Who went last year? 2001 Conference Attendees
  • General Conference Information
    This year's conference is based on the concept of environmental education being a rich education that encourages and encompasses diversity in the pursuit of sustainable futures.
    Strand 1: From Nature to Sustainability: Environmental Education Through Time
    This strand will encompass environmental education as a tool for teaching science and natural history. New innovative programs will be highlighted as well as the impacts EE has had on the formal education system.
    Strand 2: Designing and Planning Spaces for People: The Role of EE in Community Character & Community Appearance
    Referred to as sustainability, sense of place, community character or any other term, a community's identity and livability are essential to its viability. Community design and planning, landscape design, architecture, visual character and pollution, land use and the impacts of sprawl on the environment will be addressed through these sessions.

    Strand 3: Towards the Just City: Environmental Justice and Diversity through Environmental Education
    This strand will include issues of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation amongst others. The concepts of 'difference', cultural competency and diversity of both audience and providers in environmental education will also be incorporated into this strand.

    Strand 4: Leading the Way: The Role of Higher Eduction in Environmental Education
    Higher education institutions are pivotal in creating the kind of just and sustainable futures toward which we must move. The contributions and impacts of environmental education programs and research in colleges and universities around the world are stressed in this strand.

    Session Types
    This year, the conference will have more than 200 sessions, including Presentation Sessions, Hands-on Sessions, Research Poster Sessions, Workshops, Featured Speakers, Presidential Roundtable, and a Town Hall Meeting.

    Conference Accomodations

    The conference venue will be at the historic Park Plaza Hotel. Called a "city within a city" upon opening, today the Park Plaza takes pride in continuing the tradition, serving Boston as a destination itself with some of the city's most famous restaurants and lounges.

    The Boston 'TEE' Party Conference Committee:
    Julian Agyeman, Conference Chair, Tufts University
    Sandi Ryack-Bell, Program Committee Chair, The Dunn Foundation
    Ellie Horwitz, Field Trip Co-Chair, Massachusetts Division Fisheries & Wildlife
    Nina Danforth, Field Trip Co-Chair, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management
    Katy Chapdelaine, Special Projects Coordinator & Development Committee Co-Chair, Tufts University
    Greg Swanzey, Development Committee Co-Chair, MV Ernestina
    Carey Buttfield, Exhibit Hall Coordinator, Crunchtime
    Liz Barringer-Smith, Exhibit Hall Coordinator, Ohio State University

    Committee Members:
    Anthony Sanchez, Eagle Eye Institute
    Julie Newman, University of New Hampshire
    Louise Preissler, Massachusetts Audubon
    Beverley Perna, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
    Tim LaVallee, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
    Tim Rayworth, Massachusetts Department of Forests and Parks
    Kirk Meyer, Boston Schoolyard Initiative
    Melissa Griffith, Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
    Joel Rubin, New England Aquarium
    Robert McAfee, PKI - Thinking Like a Mountain Institute

    Conference Partners:
    Tufts University
    The Dunn Foundation
    Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife
    Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
    Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management

    To Register or for more information, email:

    naaee@nxtevent.com

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