Calendar Of Events
Lake Michigan's 5th Biennial State of the Lake Conference and the
7th Annual Great Lakes Beach Association Meeting
Traverse City, Michigan
October 3-5, 2007
http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/SOLM2007
Beaches World Tour 2007
Toronto, Ontario,
October 9-11, 2007
http://www.blueflag.ca/bwt/index.jsp
4th Annual Grassroots Symposium
October 19-20, 2007
Lake Michigan Basin
Illinois Beach Resort and Conference Center
One Lake Front Drive
Zion, IL 60099
Join us for a weekend of networking, learning, and fun. Register now!
Succeeding with a Dam Removal Project
East Lansing, Michigan
November 5–7, 2007
http://epdweb.engr.wisc.edu/courses/course.lasso?myCourseChoice=J460
The Institute for Conservation Leadership is pleased to announce the 2007-2008 LEADING FROM WITHIN PROGRAM.
Illinois Beach Resort and Conference Center in Zion, IL (near Chicago)
November 7-10, 2007 and March 5-8, 2008
This five-month professional development opportunity includes two 3-day workshops as well as leadership coaching support. Leading from Within is for lead staff, executive directors, and board members of environmental and conservation organizations who are passionate about their work, energized by a creative peer learning environment, and eager to further develop their leadership potential. The Leading From Within Program is also a great professional development opportunity for emerging leaders.
Leading From Within includes a 360 degree leadership assessment tool, group experiential exercises, peer feedback and exchange, and learning activities that leaders will find both challenging and rejuvenating!
For more information and an application, visit our website: LEADING FROM WITHIN. You may also contact ICL staff members, Peter Lane at 301-270-2900 ext. 5 or peter@icl.org or Courtney Carlson at ext. 7 or courtney@icl.org.
Communicating with Local Communities on Restoring Michigan’s Great Lakes Areas of Concern
Michillinda Lodge
Whitehall, Michigan (15 miles north of Muskegon)
Friday, November 9, 2007
Materials will be posted at http://glc.org/spac/. Matt Doss, Great Lakes Commission, 734-971-9135, mdoss@glc.org.
Freshwater Future builds effective community-based citizen action to protect and restore the water quality of the Great Lakes basin. We work toward this goal by providing financial assistance, communications and networking assistance and technical assistance to citizens and grassroots watershed groups throughout the Great Lakes basin. Through these efforts we work with over 1,800 grassroots watershed groups and citizens to protect and restore the rivers, lakes and wetlands in their communities. Freshwater Future, Inc. is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.
For more information, please contact:
info@freshwaterfuture.org
P.O. Box 2479, Petoskey, MI 49770
PH (231) 348-8200