12
hours of Professional Development
5.5 hours Face to Face,4 hours pre-workshop, 2.5 hours post-workshop
assignment
Facilitated by Earth Ethics
Institute Staff
This workshop consists of four sessions, each is focused on food, ethics
and sustainability. The global food web has become increasingly more
complicated with the industrialization and globalization of our world.
In this workshop, hidden ethical implications related to industrialized
agribusiness will be reviewed. In addition, participants will identify
impacts of our eating choices on farm animals, social justice and human
rights issues. How climate change affects food supply and how food
production impacts climate will be explored. Participants will delve
deeper into the interconnections between food, politics, human and
community health, environment, ethics and justice, as they explore
topics of fair trade, factory farming, resource management and
depletion, climate change, overconsumption and waste. This workshop will
be taught as a group-facilitated discussion, and broken into four
sessions. Each sessions readings will be supported by additional
resources, including web resources, videos, and other suggested
materials for use in the classroom. (This is part two of a two-part
workshop series, Part One is a prerequisite to this workshop.)
Objectives
-Analyze the ethical element, including social
justice, and human rights, inherent in our food choices
-Identify environmental and climate impacts of
our food choices
-Assess how alternative farming practices can
mitigate environmentally degrading impacts and support natural systems
-Investigate current efforts to reshape
political, social and ecological aspects of our food system
-Implement informed food choices consistent
with our personal ethics
-Evaluate food systems on how well they align
with ecological principles, community health and fairness along the food
chain
-Develop a curriculum component related to the
interconnection of food, politics, health, environment, ethics and
justice
Evaluation:
Participants
must attend ALL 4 sessions and complete all requirements to earn 12 FPD
credits, partial credit will not be awarded. Evaluation will include
completion of assigned readings prior to sessions two through four -
minimum of four hours – and completion of workshop. Finally,
participant must develop a discipline specific lesson plan or course
module that incorporates key concepts of this workshop. Lesson plan is
due to the director of Earth Ethics Institute within three weeks of the
end of the workshop, and will be posted on the Earth Ethics Institute
webpage.
Facilitators:
Colleen Ahern-Hettich
has served as director of the Earth Ethics Institute (EEI) since 2004.
Ms. Ahern-Hettich has served on several boards and committees including:
Environmental Education Providers of Miami-Dade County, Advisory
Committee of South Florida Environmental Art Project, Inc.; Economic,
Social and Health Issues Committee of the Miami-Dade County Climate
Change Advisory Task Force, Be Healthy Board, and City of Miami Green
Commission.
Mike Matthews
has
served as EEI Program Professional for InterAmerican Campus since 2012.
Matthews holds an M.S. in environmental studies from Florida
International University. He has taught on the faculty of Florida Gulf
Coast University’s Marine and Ecological Sciences Department and as an
adjunct professor at Florida International University.
Netiva Kolitz
has
served as EEI Program Professional at Kendall Campus since 2012. Ms.
Kolitz holds a B.S. in Psychology, and has completed graduate course
work in Environmental Studies and Education. She has more than 10 years
of experience in program coordination, environmental education, and
public outreach. Ms. Kolitz worked in the Education Department of
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.
Alison Walker
is EEI
Program Professional at Wolfson Campus. She has worked in environmental
education, community outreach, and professional development for more
than 12 years as an adjunct professor, and at Fairchild Tropical Botanic
Garden and the US Department of Agriculture. Ms. Walker received her
B.S. and M.S. degrees in Plant Sciences from University of Florida.
Stephen
Nesvacil
is EEI Program Professional at North Campus. Mr. Nesvacil served as
Chaplain Emeritus at Unity on the Bay and developed and facilitated The
Green Intention Workshop as part of a process to participate in the
Unity Worldwide Ministries EarthCare Program. In addition, Nesvacil is
certified to facilitate “The 21-Day Q Process,” an integrated cognitive
shadow-work practice that weaves together the latest research emerging
from neurobiology, developmental psychology, family systems theory,
attachment theory, quantum science and perennial spiritual wisdom.
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