ATTENTION EDUCATORS Excerpted from the EECOM Newsletter by A. Camozzi

A network of environmental educators from across Canada met in April, 1993 and formed the Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication (EECOM). Work has been completed on the mission statement which reads: -

EECOM enables all involved in educating Canadians about

the environment

1. to work together in ways that nurture environmentally

informed and responsible individuals, organizations, and communities, and

2. to improve the quality and effectiveness of their

serviCes. The EECOM’s goals are:

0 To encourage communication and information exchange among Canadians involved in environmental education.

0 To improve environmental education in Canada by

ensuring that environmental educators are better equipped to do their job.

0 To develop a greater awareness of environmental educators in Canada.

0 To facilitate discussion of environmental education issues in local, national, and international contexts.

0 To strengthen and expand the network to make it

more effective. Membership for individuals is $ 30 and is scaled to the budget of organizations. The address is: EECOM, The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication, Station B, P.O. Box 948, Ottawa, Ontario KIP 5P9.

For computer buffs, EECOM is developing electronic nets for rapid communication of ideas and other information. They are developing An Environmental Educator’s Guide to the Internet to assist members in the use of Internet. If you have suggestions

or wish information on this work contact Rick Kool via e-mail at rkool@first.etc.bc.ca.

HOLY COW, CLEANER STREAMS by EHJV staff

The Eastern Habitat Joint Venture in Prince Edward Island has discovered that you can lead a cow to water -- and it will drink.

For centuries Island livestock have been allowed 11) roam freely through wetlands and streams causing excessive damage to wetland edges, stream banks and to the watercourse jJ] general. That’s changing -- thanks to a program run by the PEI Soil and Crop Improvement Association and funded by a large number of committed partners, including the Eastern Habitat Joint Ventures.

One very positive feature of this program is the support it received from farmers. They point to fewer cases of foot rot, udder infections and other health problems relating to milk

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