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•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

•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 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.

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

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• 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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