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•April 08: Senior Fellow Mary Anne Hitt was on a radio call-in show, the Kojo Nnamdi Show on NPR. The focus of the program was the use of online maps in advocacy work.

•April 08: Senior Fellow Omar Freilla was featured in the NY Times Metro Section as his Organization the Greenworkers Cooperative opened its ReBuilders Source facility. Read more about this

•April 08: Senior Fellow Jacob Park was a part of an interdisciplinary block course on food issues in the northeast that will be recognized by the VT Governor's office next week. Read more about this

•April 08: Senior Fellow Jacob Park co-dited a Book on Environmental Governance Read more about this

•April 08: ELP 2006 National Fellow, L'Tryce Slade and 2007 Southeast Fellow, Esther Obonyo held a strategic planning workshop, April 19th to implement the Olmsted vision for the Ensley Park area of Birmingham, AL. Click here to view L'Tryce's interview on CBS 42 Birmingham.

•April 08: ELP 2008 Southeast Fellow, Darryl Haddock was recently on NPR discussing Atlanta's water woes.

•April 08: ELP 2008 Southeast Fellow, K.C. Boyce was part of an Earth Hour special that toured his house that is undergoing green remodeling. Segment begins at 45:30.

•March 08: Regional Fellow Eric Becker was interviewed on Christian Science Monitor Read the article or Watch the interview about his company's work on green investment.

•February 08: ELP 2004 National Fellow Bruce Morton was featured in a video about the West Atlanta Watershed Alliance. Check out the video titled Going Green Champion: West Atlanta Watershed Alliance.

•January 08: ELP 2003 National Fellow Marcelo Bonta was featured in the Oregonian in an article about the racial inequality pertaining to green jobs. Check out the article here.

Read about other ELP Newsmakers

•Nature for All: Urban Youth and their Access to the Outdoors. A discussion about youth, the outdoors, the challenges lower-income communities face and how it all ties into the environmental movement. May 31, 10am-2pm in Lawrence, MA.

Click here learn more about this issue forum and to register.

•Delaware Valley Celebration of Leadership. Join the ELP Community and Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Enviornmental Protection, Kathleen McGinty, in celebrating and sharing the success stories of our environmental & social change leaders in the Delaware Valley. June 4, 5:30-7:30pm in Philadelphia, PA.

Click here to learn more about this event and to register.

•New England Celebration of Leadership. Join the ELP Community in celebrating and sharing the success stories of our environmental & social change leaders in New England. June 19, 6-8:30pm in Boston, MA.

Click here to learn more about this event and to register.

• Click here to listen to our latest webinar podcasts.

• Click here to register for our webinar conference on July 14th, Taking the Worldview on Organic: Its Real Potential and Challenges Ahead.

• Save the Date for our next national conference: The Politics of Food - September 22-24, 2008

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• ELP is now hiring! Click here to view employment opportunities at ELP.

• Read our latest issue of Environmental Leadership News on Food.

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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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