Environmental Citizenship Institute (ECI)

Attention: All Nassau and Suffolk County High School Juniors and Seniors

Are you interested in learning more about the Long Island ecosystem and what you can do to preserve it?

If so, the week-long summer Environmental Citizenship Institute (ECI) will help prepare you to become a community leader by giving you knowledge about Long Island’s ecological challenges and the practical skills needed to promote environmental sustainability on Long Island. To sustain the health of that ecosystem requires each one of us to assume responsibly toward the environment.

Part of being a responsible environmental citizen is to first know about the environment and to understand the interrelationship between nature, our finite natural resources, and mankind. Learn how you can apply the knowledge and skills necessary to promote environmental sustainability on Long Island.

The curriculum of the Institute will include the following topics:

• Time, Continuity and Change on Long Island
• People, Places, and Environment on Long Island
• Production, Distribution and Consumption on Long Island
• Power, Authority and Governance on Long Island
• Natural Resources of Long Island
• Global Connections of Long Island
• Sustainable Environment and the Future of Long Island
• Environmental Law
• Community Empowerment Skills
• Developing Environmental Citizenship Skills

A committee of social studies teachers and C. W. Post School of Education staff will review applications and select twenty students to participate in ECI. Student selection will be based on a 300 word essay on why they wish to attend ECI. In addition, the committee will make every effort to select students from different geographic locations on Long Island.

Guest presenters will be professors, practitioners and civic leaders actively engaged in the field of ecology. They will facilitate small group discussions, presentations, and lectures, addressing a series of issues and debates related to Long Island environment, natural resources, water, land, air, and the ecosystem. Institute presenters will also employ cooperative learning, readings, videos, simulations, dramatization, and role play, and field experiences in order to maximize student involvement with the subject matter.

Environmental Citizenship Institute
Five-Day Seminar
Monday, July 13 to Friday, July 17, 2009
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
School of Education
C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University
720 Northern Boulevard
Brookville, N.Y. 11548

There is no fee for attending the Institute but space is limited, so apply now. A mid-morning snack and box lunch will be provided.

The Environmental Citizenship Institute is funded by a grant from the Rauch Foundation.

For information contact
Dr. Marilyn Pedalino
School of Education
516-299-3679
e-mail marilyn.pedalino@liu.edu