The Institute for Environmental Communication (IEC)
The Institute for Environmental Communication (IEC) brings together a diverse group of citizens (environmentalists, scientists, journalists, industrialists, Brown Field community people, politicians, government employees, teachers, business persons, and the like) for 12 or so evening sessions to discuss issues of vital environmental importance to the region and nation. The IEC Fellows Program is modeled after the highly regarded Institute of Politics that has been offered by Loyola University since 1968.The IEC's first sessions began in Fall 1999.
To find out more about the IEC follow these links:
- FAQs
- Institute for Environmental Communication 2007 Syllabus
- See a list of the 2007 IEC Participants
- List of the IEC Fellows.
- Photo gallery from the closing parties.
- Download and print an IEC nomination form (Adobe PDF) in Adobe Acrobat. Adobe Acrobat can be downloaded free at the Adobe website.
To lead coversations about environmental issues, IEC uses the following technique excerpted (with permission) from R. Brian Stanfield (ed.). 1997. The Art of Focused Conversation. 100 Ways to Access Group Wisdom in the Workplace. Canadian Inst. Cultural Affairs. 0-921690-57-6. See pages 25-28. We recommend that you visit their website.
