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Project: Smart Talk for Growing Communities

When this guide was published, then-Vice President Gore announced a partnership of federal agencies and national non-profit groups aimed at promoting Smart Talk study circles in communities around the country. Partners included the U.S. Conference of Mayors, National League of Cities, Urban Land Institute, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and National Association of Counties.

Communities across the country have used this discussion guide to engage citizens and public officials in talking about growth and development issues. Click here to read about changes brought about by study circles programs in Connecticut, Idaho, and New Hapshire. Click here for links to news stories about other growth and development study circles programs.

Project: Ho‘ike o Haleakala supplemental high school curriculum

Following the publication of this curriculum, a series of teacher-training workshops helped educators introduce the curriculum in classrooms across the island. It has also been used by conservation groups in student presentations.

We participated in the development of four issue discussion guides and developed facilitator training and train-the-trainer programs. More than 300 facilitators and trainers took Environmental Issues Forums discussions to citizens in forums and students in classrooms across the U.S. and Canada.

We conducted strategic planning sessions, funded through the Environmental Support Center. The process helped the board of this small, struggling nonprofit renew and refine its vision, and map out a strategy for broadening support for the organization's activities.