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Confluence: January 2003, Vol. 5, No. 1
Education and Outreach

The Greenroom
The Greenroom is an online media training resource for environmentalists provided by Environmental Media Services. The site includes information on how to implement a media campaign, a tutorial on basic communications planning, articles on various aspects of effective grassroots media work, and a calendar of environmental media events.
http://www.green-room.org/index.html

Backyard Conservation Lesson Plans
The Wildlife Habitat Council developed these lesson modules for grades 3-12 to help students appreciate wildlife in their backyards and take steps to create additional wildlife habitat within their communities. The lesson plans are available at http://www.wildlifehc.org under the Backyard Conservation graphic. The contact person is Mary Cressell, NRCS public affairs specialist, at 202-690-0547.

Education For Sustainable Development Toolkit
The ESD Toolkit is an easy-to-use manual for beginning the process of combining education and sustainability and will help schools and communities develop a process to create locally relevant and culturally appropriate education. The Toolkit is based on the idea that communities and educational systems need to dovetail their sustainability efforts.
http://www.esdtoolkit.org

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