Hope in Action Youth Conference
May 13, 2010
Eugene Faith Center
1410 W. 13th St. Eugene, Oregon  

 
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
8:30 - 9:15am              Registration
9:15 - 9:45am              Opening Session
9:50 - 10:50am            Morning Workshop Session
11:00 - 11:25am          Lunch
11:30am - 12:30pm    Afternoon Workshop Session
12:40 - 1:30pm            Closing Session  


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
Re-Use Challenge!
Brett Jacobs, BRING Recycling
Find new uses for old items.  We provide the materials, you provide the creativity and go home with your fun, silly, and inventive creations. 

ReCycle ReCreate!
Mija Andrade, M.E.C.C.A.
Join M.E.C.C.A. for a creative experience in recycling.  Making art is an excellent way to reuse scraps and spread the word about going green!  All you need is your imagination and passion for the planet. 

Food & Where It Comes From
Sarah Sherman, Farm to School Project
Follow the lives of a local and non-local foods, considering labor needed, resource inputs, processing, packing, shipping, and storage. We will explore food preservation and sample local, dried and canned goods. Then we'll get creative and design a local food menu. 

The Power of Language
Leah Dunbar, Churchill High School; Rena Dunbar, Spencer Butte Middle School
Learn how to find your voice and empower yourself to use it to make a difference in your school and community. See and hear the power that language has in shaping our vision of ourselves and the world.  

How to Build a Worm Bin
Maureen McClain, Master Gardener & Compost Specialist; Janet Marcisz, Master Gardener & Compost Specialist
Create a food processing factory and employ hundreds of workers!  Turn your garbage into black gold!  Reduce your school garbage bill and complete the cycle by returning resources back to the earth.  It's easy and it's fun!   

Who’s Polluting the River?
Beth Stein, Nearby Nature
Learn the 20 million year history of the Willamette River and how pollutants enter and dirty its water over time. Through hands-on activities, discover the role we all play in polluting rivers and how we can take action to help keep them clean.  

Making a Promise: Designing Flags of Intention to Inspire Action
Sandra Koike, Camas Educational Network
Learn what kinds of actions you can take individually and collectively to support a sustainable lifestyle.  Then take a pledge to act by creating a flag that gives voice to your intention to take action. 

Taking Back Our Streets! Human-Powered Transportation for Everyone
Shane Rhodes, Safe Routes to Schools
Learn how creating a bike, pedestrian, skater, and scooter friendly city can help us be skinnier, happier, and healthier while having more fun! 

Grassroots Involvement: How You Can Change the World!        
Joy Marshall, Stand for Children
How can you influence government and decisions that impact, schools, tuition costs, the environment, and other matters?  How can you make a difference?  Who is making all these decisions anyway?!  Regular people can and DO have an impact, once you know HOW to do it.  Come found out what this grassroots organizer of 22 years has figured out the hard way! 

Music for Change
Erin Lamb, Nearby Nature
Learn some of the many songs that have helped change history, from labor movements to civil rights. Write some new verses to hold songs and learn some harmonies and rhythms that you can take out and use to make the world a better place.  


Organized by Partners for Sustainable Schools  


Sponsors
City of Eugene
Lane County Public Works – Waste Management Division
Institute for Sustainability Education and Ecology