With a special focus on Equity & Social Justice, join your fellow ECO Net members for a day of inspiration, networking, and collaborative learning sessions!
Topic Areas Include:
-Communicating Climate Change
-Equity & Diversity within Your Organization
-Recreation / Access to Nature
-Food Systems
-Community Resiliency to Climate Change
Coffee / tea, light snacks, and lunch will be provided.
Questions? Contact Kristen Reichardt at kristen.reichardt@kingcd.com or (425) 282-1927
**Scholarships available to those unable to afford registration costs. Please contact Kristen Reichardt directly to register.
ECO-Net Summit Agenda
Wednesday, December 6th | 8:30am – 3pm
8:30 - 9:00 Registration and visit tables
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome
9:15 - 10:00 Rising Above: How Investing in Communities Builds Resilience, Nancy Huizar, Sustainable Seattle
10:00 - 11:05 Concurrent Sessions A
Organizational Structure
- • Aligning Values with Practice: Centering Equity in Your Business, Inside & Out, Ruth Bell, Cascadia Consulting & Tali Hairston, Seattle Pacific University
- • WA State Applied Baccalaureate Degrees: Overcoming Barriers to Careers in Sustainability, Jodie Galvan, Cascadia College
Climate Change
- • Community Resiliency in a Changing Climate, Lara Whitely Binder, King County DNRP
- • King County Climate Engagement, Jamie Stroble, King County DNRP
11:05 - 11:20 Coffee / Restroom break
11:20 - 12:25 Concurrent Sessions B
Connecting with Diverse Audiences
- • Let Me Be Great! A Dialogue on Diversity in the Outdoors, Deabra Gray & Tiffany Barber
- • More than Translation: Increasing Environmental Awareness with Latino Audiences, Yolimar Rivera Vazquez, WSU Snohomish County Extension
Food Systems
- • Permaculture Design for a Changing Climate, Nick Jennison, 21 Acres
- • Food Access is Food Justice, Zsofia Pasztor, Farmer Frog
Communication Practices
- • Visualizing Change: Climate Communications, Emily Carlson, King Conservation District
- • Engaging Diverse Audiences, Chuck Janovick, Nature Vision
12:25 - 1:30 Lunch / Networking
1:30 - 2:00 Visualizing Sustainable Cities, Sian Wu, Resource Media
2:00 - 3:00 Breakout work sessions: Incorporating Equity into Your Work
- • Organizational Structure
- • Community Resiliency
- • Food Systems
- • Connecting & Communicating with Diverse Audiences
3:00 - 3:15 Thank you and final words
3:30 Informal post-summit celebration at Redhook Brewery, Woodinville