Orion Society Announcements
Announcements from the Orion Society Announcing Enviro-Arts: Orion Online, A Joint Website with EnviroLink The Orion Society has teamed up with EnviroLink—the world's largest online environmental...
...Send a check to The Orion Society, 195 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230...
...and Canada are eligible...
...This year marks the Society's seventh year of awarding these $1,000 fellowships to teachers for designing and implementing place-based environmental curricula...
...The affiliation with EnviroLink offers us the opportunity to impact an enormous, worldwide audience we couldn't hope to reach with our publications alone...
...The volume is framed with an introduction by long-time Orion Society advisor John Elder and illustrated with photographs and student artwork...
...Come visit: www.envirolink.org/enviroarts...
...Announcements from the Orion Society Announcing Enviro-Arts: Orion Online, A Joint Website with EnviroLink The Orion Society has teamed up with EnviroLink—the world's largest online environmental resource center—to create a new website dedicated to arts and the environment...
...Elementary and secondary school teachers in the U.S...
...Requests should be addressed to Stories in the Land Applications, The Orion Society, 195 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230 or orion@orionsociety.org...
...Advance orders can be placed for $6...
...Leaders in the Orion literary community are developing an authoritative list of contemporary and classic nature writing—The Orion Nature Literacy Library—now available for browsing or purchase on our site...
...The product of six years of work with The Orion Society's place-based environmental education teaching models, this volume promises to be useful and inspirational to anyone interested in teaching about the homegrounds...
...The EnviroLink Network currently plays host to over 375,000 visitors per day from over 150 countries...
...The Orion Society Online Bookstore also features books reviewed or mentioned in Orion and Orion Afield...
...Titled "EnviroArts: Orion Online," the site features stories, poems, essays, and visual artwork gleaned primarily from the pages of Orion and Orion Afield, but also includes occasional unpublished works from the Orion community of writers and artists...
...Applications Available for 1998-99 Teaching Fellowships Stories in the Land teaching fellowship application materials are now available...
...We're very excited about the potential of this new project," said Orion Society Managing Director Laurie Lane-Zucker...
...The initial offering is a rich collection of some of the best work from the past two years of both magazines, including essays by Rick Bass, John Elder, Sue Halpern, David Lukas, Bill McKibben, Richard Nelson, David Sobel, Scott Russell Sanders, and Rex Ziak, poetry by Jim Armstrong, Alison Deming, Emily Hiestand, and Pattiann Rogers, and photography portfolios from Robert Buelteman, Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo, and Laura McPhee and Virginia Beahan...
...The list of 85 books has been compiled to serve as a resource for libraries, environmental education centers, and anyone else who wants to access the essential nature writing canon...
...After publication, the price will be raised to $8...
...Advance Orders Are Being Taken for Stories in the Land Volume two of The Orion Society's Nature Literacy Series is a collection of essays from teachers who have participated in the Stories in the Land educational programs, including step-by-step descriptions of the most successful classroom and field-based activities...
...Books can be purchased at discount prices, and a portion of the proceeds for every book sold will help to support Orion Society programs...
...Launched on Earth Day 1998, the new site is currently divided into four content areas: literary arts, visual arts, arts and education, and arts and activism...
...EnviroArts: Orion Online" will be updated frequently with new material, and plans are underway to grow the site in both size and scope over the coming months...
...The Orion Nature Literacy Library Now Available Online Changes are also afoot at The Orion Society's own website— www.orionsociety.org...
Vol. 2 • June 1998 • No. 3
