Negotiations over the permit issuance for the Florida Gulf Coast University led to a Settlement Agreement that called for the creation of the "Arnold Committee" and an assessment of overall land uses and natural systems, environmental protection and mitigation tools in the Estero Bay watershed.  Upon completion of the Assessment and its adoption by the Arnold Committee in October of 1996, the Council established and began providing Staff support to the Estero Bay Agency on Bay Management (ABM).

   The Estero Bay Agency on Bay Management- (ABM) is a non-regulatory advisory committee to the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council. Its directive is to make comments and recommendations regarding the management of Estero Bay and its watershed. 

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Covanta Energy - Lee County Facility

ECHO (Networking Global Hunger Solutions)

Fort Myers Beach Historical Cottage

Downtown Fort Myers   

Power point about Downtown by Neil Wilkinson

 a Wikipedia entry about Dewey

Center for Dewey Studies

Wikipedia entry about Leopold

The Aldo Leopold Foundation

The Land Ethic excerpt

Orr's Profile from Oberlin

Ecological Literacy SUNY Press 

What is Education for? essay excerpt

"development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."  It was presented in Our Common Future.  The World Commission on Environment and Development which was published in 1987.  You can read the entire Bruntland report here (over 300 pages).

Here's a Wikipedia entry explaining Our Common Future.

Open University's Our Common future site

State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures

State of the World 2009:  Into a Warming World

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

State of the World 2008- beyond the book

Local resources include governmental agencies, local advocacy groups and newspapers.

Naples Daily News

Special report from 2003:  Deep Trouble: Gulf in Peril  

The National Center for Environmental Economics

Environmental Economics Program at Harvard

Environmental, Natural Resources, and Sustainability Economics Website  (Hackett from Humboldt)

Garrett Hardin Society

Tragedy of the Commons

Rachel Carson Organization - one of her most powerful books is Silent Spring  

National Center for Environmental Health (CDC)

National Environmental Health Association

Supercourse- Global health lectures from around the world

National Resource Defense Council

The Foundation for Global Community

Research on Place and Space by Bruce Janz from UCF

Social Critic Organization

 This FGCU Colloquium site (from 2003) has extensive links and instructions about the course including assignments, rubrics, journals and field trip resources:

Terry Wimberley has created an awesome site to support his section of the course- there are links to dozens of pertinent groups and agencies.  

Forum on Religion and Environment

The Nature Journal as a tool for learning

In this area you will find links to creative journal ideas. Bill Hammond is our local guru for creative journaling.   He has been an  inspiration and leader in Environmental Education in Lee County for over 30 years.  I've found some links to his suggestions an included them here for you.

Elements of Change - an entry by Dr. Hammond from 1994

Reflection on wild-places 

The most powerful part of the Corkscrew Swamp field trip could well be the seton.

 Here is another example; The Naturalist's Notebook 

In Praise of slowness- the simple living network 

Take back your time

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