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•August 08: New England Fellow Jessy Pyles was interviewed by the Rutland Herald . Read the interview.

•August 08: New England Fellow Kate Stephenson and her organization Yestermorrow Design/Build School were profiled in Orion Magazine's September/October Issue.

•July 08: New England Fellow Amy Alfieri was appointed to the city of Burlington Conservation Board.

•July 08: New England Fellow Jennifer Hashley was featured in the Concord Journal about Pete and Jen's Backyard Birds , her locally grown free-range chickens, and eating local foods. Read the article or view the video.

•July 08: New England Fellow Allison Rogers Furbish was quoted in Plenty Magazine's August/September 2008 Issue "Big Ideas in Green Design." Read the article. Also, read Allison's article for Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) about King Arthur Flour and B Corporation.

•July 08: New England Fellow Jessy Pyles was featured in Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education's Campus Sustainability Perpectives Blog. Read the interview.

•June 08: New England Fellow Jenna Ringelheim and her organization Wild Gift were profiled in Orion Magazine's July/August Issue and The Sun Valley Guide.

•May 08: New England Fellow Emily Enderle was invited to be the keynote speaker at the National Environmental Studies and Sciences Summit at Arkansas State University

•May 08: Southeast Fellow, Amadou Diop, had his article entitled "The Legacy of African American Land", published in Forest Wisdom.

• Senior Fellow, Na'Taki Osborne, was recently appointed to the Sustainable Atlanta Advisory Board. Na'Taki also had her article "Sittin' with the Womenfolk: A Journey into the Lives and Leadership of Women of Color Environmental Justice Activists", published in the Winter 2007 issue of Whole Thinking Journal.

•May 08: New England Fellow Liz Hoover was awarded a Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellowship

•MAY 08: Senior Fellow Kristin Martin was invited to join the Board of Directors of the Institute for Humane Education

Read about other ELP Newsmakers

Eva M. Clayton will be speaking at the Politics of Food Conference on September 22-24, 2008 in Raleigh, NC.

Click here for more information.

How can we promote a food system that is environmentally sustainable, socially just, and economically viable?

Click here for more information.

• Click here to listen to our latest webinar podcasts.

• Read last year's Climate Conference Report .

I often tell people that the ELP Fellowship has given me my idealism back. Having a chance to meet and interact with such interesting people actively

and joyfully engaged in such difficult issues is incredibly inspirational.
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