Hopework-l Mailing List: Earth Dinner to benefit Eco Education

[Nance Longley (longley]

Greetings Hopework folk,

I'm on the board of Eco Education, a small but growing organization that
provides hands-on environmental education curriculum to middle and high
schools in the Twin Cities area. We also provide professional development
for classroom teachers in environmental education and civic engagement.

With the help of Eric Utne, Horst Rechelbacher, and Will Winter, we are
putting on our first-ever big fundraiser next Friday, Earth Day, to
celebrate the earth with a meal of superbly-prepared organic food, great
conversation, and friendship. Any money raised will go to support Eco
Education's programs in the next year and help us to grow into more schools.
We currently have a waiting list of schools that would like to use our
programs, but we need more funding to support an expansion.

For more information about Eco Education see http://www.ecoeducation.org.

The invite is below:

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Join Eric Utne, Alida R. Messinger, Sandra Bemis Roe and co-hosts to
celebrate Earth Day with an Earth Dinner? for the benefit of Eco Education

Earth Day ~ Friday, April 22, 2005
6­10 o¹clock  
Intelligent Nutrients
983 East Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55414
$100 per person

call 651-222-7691 or info [at] ecoeducation.org to RSVP or for more information

³To give Earth Day the attention it deserves, bring people together to eat
and talk. The food should be fresh, local, preferably organic, and
delicious. But the real focus of the dinner is the earth ? what she gives us
and what we can give back to her. All Earth Day Dinners involve appreciation
and consciousness-raising...²    
? Cosmo Doogood, Urban Almanac 2005
Celebrating Nature & Her Rhythms in the
City

Eco Education is a Twin Cities-based nonprofit that works with urban young
people to foster ³the appreciation, knowledge, values and skills necessary
to inspire ecologically sound decisions and actions.²  Eco Education has
served over 130,000 Minneapolis/St. Paul students in grades 5­12 since 1991,
making environmental education relevant to urban learners and helping them
address their unique environmental concerns.


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Nance Longley
publications designer
Communications Office
College of Education & Human Development
University of Minnesota
612-626-7257
<www.education.umn.edu>