Page 6 December, 1974 ( ECO NE'I' REPOR11'S ) The State Environmental Education Conference at Menucha found the Menucha Conference Grounds as beautiful as ever. One of the main concerns of the conference appears to have been "public understanding and support." The workshop which was facilitated by the Environmental Education Center dealt with the topic of how to relate to the media, and how to determine what kind of media coverage to use. The appearance of several members of our local friendly media group Oack Berry, KATU, Mike Sakellarides, KGW Radio, and Maureen MacNasser, OSPIRG, Charles Auch, OMSI Eco-Net), encouraged people to approach and establish relationships with the local media. Case-study presentations by Don Stotler, EEC;John Gustafson, LCDC; Roberta Caughlan, Eco-Aesthetics; and Andrea Scharf, the Portland Saturday Market, further stressed community contact and involvement. Hopefully people left Menucha with some feeling for the importance of good media relations to achieving this goal of "public understanding." We expect to publish proceedings follow-up soon. Bob Phillips, OMSI Eco-Net, and Anita Helle, EEC, will soon visit a video ·group at Newport and the Oregon Coastal Conservation and Development Commission in Florence, Oregon. They hope to use their time locating possibilities for using students to document coastal problems through video-tape and to view some of the recent community video projects aired on coastal cable access channels. The EEC will soon initiate a series of new publications which will provide how-to-do-it information for any group on such subjects as how to brainstorm, how to get funded, how to do a model block, how to close a street, and other subjects which relate to the skill which many groups have asked us about. Give us a call if you have other ideas about · how-to-do-it information which fits your needs. And watch RAIN for further details. "Community Centers," an article by Don Stotler published in Futures Conditional, is available from the Center on request. SPOKANE ECO-NET MEETING was held Nov. 15th with the continued discussion of how to increase communication among environmental educators. Lots of interest in utilization of RAIN as a preliminary vehicle for exchange and how to correct its present Portland bias. Also discussed were possibilities of video-tape exchanges; the need for better inter-state telephone access; production of information packages, especially for mass media; and possibilities of a Lewis and Clark '76 excursion through the Northwest as a regional unifying project. . "A good educational system should have three purposes: It should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives; empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them; and, finally, to furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.... It should use modem technology to make free speech, free assembly, and a free press truly ~iversal and, therefore, fully educational.... Things, models, peers, and elders are four resources each of which re-:- .quires a different type of arrangement to ensure that everybody has.ample access to it." Deschooling Society, Harper, 1970, pp. 108-109.
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