4 PM – Welcome gathering in the GreenHouse multipurpose room
5:30 PM – Barbeque in the courtyard
6:30 – 9:00 PM – Summit overview, place-based presentations by attendees from Puerto Rico, South Carolina, and Vermont (see Summit Preparation below for further details).
Friday, July 20
7:30 AM – Breakfast in the Game Room
8:30 – 9AM – Walt gives overview of Burlington Geographic site (maps)
9 – 9:30 AM –
short walk through of UVM campus on the way to the vans - feature Aiken, Davis,
and Jeffords
9:45 – Load into vans
10:00 – 10:45 AM - Intervale – Tom gives brief tour
11:00 – 12:30 – Rock Point – Brief tour with Kathy and Chuck
· Bathrooms
· Lunch
12:45 – 1:15 - Waterfront – Battery Park (Becky and Sophie)
1:30 PM – Sustainability Academy, Burlington School District – a collaborative partnership of educators, families and the community that integrates sustainability into Pre-K-5 curriculum and campus practices
2:30 – 4 PM – Shelburne Farms – a nonprofit environmental education center and 1,400-acre working farm dedicated to cultivating a conservation ethic for a sustainable future
4:30 PM – Rest time
6 PM – Dinner
6:30 – 9 PM – Group discussion: Framing the central objectives and focal questions for Saturday’s working groups
Sustainability Network Conceptual Framework (potential questions include):
- What are the unique ways that cultures have adapted to different geographic settings?
- What programs and cultural practices that serve to strengthen the relationship between people and place are already underway?
- What are the emerging stories of place-based ecological design and community resiliency?
- What can we learn from each other by comparing local initiatives in a broader, multi-site context?
- Can this shared knowledge be implemented in a general model?
- How can we foster a vision for a healthy planet composed of a network of sustainable places?
- How can place-based landscape analysis and community engagement be best implemented in different settings?
- Who are essential steering committee partners?
- Who would participate in the learning process?
- How can schools be best engaged?
- What emerging mapping approaches might be employed?
- What is the role of higher education?
- How might existing programs evolve?
- What types of exchange are already occurring?
- What are the opportunities for undergraduate travel courses?
- How might K-12 teachers and students make connections between places?
- What shared research questions might faculty members explore?
- How might we cultivate exchange between communities?
Saturday, July 21
7:30 AM – Breakfast
8:30 – 9:30 AM – Breakout session I: Conceptual Framework
9:30 – 10:30 AM – Group discussion of emerging themes from breakout session I
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM – Breakout session II: Program Development
11:45 AM – Lunch
12:45 – 1:45 PM – Group discussion of emerging themes from breakout session II
2 – 3 PM – Breakout session III: Academic Exchange
3 – 4 PM – Group discussion of emerging themes from breakout session III
4 PM – Rest time
5:30 PM – Dinner
6:30 – 8:30 PM – Group discussion: Framing opportunities for developing a network
- Network rationale
- Central research questions
- Funding for individual programs
- Funding the network
Sunday, July 22
7:30 AM – Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 AM – Meet with the other team members from your place to discuss emerging ideas and action steps
10:00 - Noon – Gather as group to formulate action steps for moving the Network forward.
Noon – Lunch
1 PM – Summit wrap-up and closing