At the National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America, SEC Director Jaimie Cloud along with Keith Wheeler, Co-Director of The Center for a Sustainable Future in Shelbourne, Vermont and Jean Perras, Director of Learning for a Sustainable Future in Ottawa, Canada launched a process for the development of an alliance/network of sustainability educators working in community settings, K-12 schools and Colleges of Education. A follow-up meeting will take place in October to form the alliance, which will collaborate with the existing Alliance for Sustainability Education in Higher Education. For more information, please contact us here at the Center.

We are thrilled to introduce to you our "Ecological Footprint Project" which will officially begin in September in collaboration with Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the "ecological footprint" and Director of Indicators at ReDefining Progress in San Francisco. Secondary school students, teachers and related community organizations will be involved in a "hands on" study of the impact of their lifestyles (their "footprint") on ecological systems. An ecological footprint is a measure of the "load" imposed by a given population on nature. Analysis of ecological footprints can help translate sustainability concerns into public action. In addition, negotiations are underway to include as partners in this project students and their teachers from around the world through the I*EARN program in New York.

Our two day adult training program on Ecological Economics will be launched through our web site this fall. Anyone interested in taking the workshop - using it as a self directed learning tool or facilitating its use by others - will find our workshop easy to use on line or to down load for later use. Our professional development programs for teachers are going strong. This year we have begun to disseminate our interdisciplinary program entitled, "Sustainability Education for Educators" (SEE) nationally through collaborations (now being negotiated) with two sites: Dean Kubani and the Sustainable Schools Program in Santa Monica, CA, and Susan Santone at Creative Change in Ypsilanti (Washtenaw County), MI. Program titles and speakers from this year's series in New York include:

In addition, our Mathematics of Global Change Institute, "Iterative Algebra and Dynamic Modeling" will take place at Hunter College in New York City from July 26-August 6, 1999.

The Center has just signed a new contract with The New York State Association of Independent Schools to provide a series of professional development programs on sustainability education for their members during the 1999-2000 school year.

Jaimie Cloud just returned from giving a workshop on "A Whole Systems Approach to Educating about Sustainability" at one of the first international Eco-Psychology Conferences on the planet, "For the Love of Nature?" held at The Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. In addition to the workshop, Jaimie was interviewed by a reporter on the BBC radio about a sustainable approach to manufacturing practices.

We are delighted to welcome Carmela Federico to our staff as the new Program Coordinator. Carmela's presence makes it possible for us to redouble our efforts to develop a strategic plan for the next five years of work at The Center. Stay tuned!