CEED has a wide variety of projects that all share at least one common
characteristic: they each, in some way, invite members of the local community
to share in the project's development. CEED's success builds on its ability
to draw upon the talents and enthusiasm of local and regional partners and
to nurture these attributes by providing innovative outlets for their application.
Arts & Environment
Initiative |
| Project website: http://ceed.allegheny.edu/A&EI/
The Arts & Environment Initiative uses art to
beautify our environment and promote regional revitalization. Through
community partnerships we identify environmental problems and opportunities,
and then design and implement solutions to revitalize our community,
while highlighting the environment as a tool for community and economic
development. |
Project Director:
Amara Geffen
Professor of Art
Amara.Geffen@allegheny.edu
(814)332-3379 |
Creek Connections
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| Project website: http://creekconnections.allegheny.edu/
In Creek Connections, our students and faculty collaborate
with regional elementary and secondary schools in western Pennsylvania
and New York, using the French Creek and Allegheny River watersheds
as outdoor laboratories for ongoing water quality investigations done
by students. School children and their teachers increase their awareness
of natural resources and learn to appreciate their local waterways.
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Project Director:
Jim Palmer
Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Biology
Jim.Palmer@allegheny.edu
(814) 332-2380
Project Coordinator:
Wendy Kedzierski
Wendy.Kedzierski@allegheny.edu
(814) 332-5351 |
Ecotourism |
Project website: http://naturetourism.allegheny.edu/
The Ecotourism Project works with the community,
government agencies and tourism-related businesses to promote nature
tourism in Crawford County, northwestern Pennsylvania, and the Great
Lakes region. |
Project Director:
Richard D. Bowden
Professor of Environmental Science
Rich.Bowden@allegheny.edu
(814) 332-2869 |
Environmental
Health Initiative |
| Project website: webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/c/cwaggett/fcehi/
The Environmental Health Initiative surveys the
risks and assesses the damage of environmental factors on the health
of the community. The initiative currently is researching the incidence
of lead poisoning among regional children and collaborating with social
service agencies to raise awareness about this health risk. |
Project Director:
Caryl E. Waggett
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science
Caryl.Waggett@allegheny.edu
(814) 332-2715 |
Environmental
Writing |
| Project website: http://frenchcreekjournal.allegheny.edu
The Environmental Writing Project forms partnerships
with other colleges to publish undergraduate creative writing and
art focused on nature and environmental topics in a juried, online
journal, French Creek: The Journal of Undergraduate Environmental
Writing and Art. |
Project Director:
Kerry Bakken
Assistant Professor of English
Kerry.Bakken@allegheny.edu
(814) 332-4339 |
Local
Foods Network (LFN) |
| Project website: http://ceed.allegheny.edu/lfn/
The Local Foods Network works with area farmers
to promote the Meadville Area Local Growers, a collaborative of small
producers who sell a variety of locally grown foodstuffs. The network
facilitates cooperation among local producers, local markets and consumers
to support a diverse and healthy food network.
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Project Co-Director:
Jennifer DeHart
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science
Jennifer.Dehart@
allegheny.edu
(814) 332-2795
Project Co-Director:
Erin Kirk
CEED Program Coordinator
Erin.Kirk@allegheny.edu
(814)332-2713 |
Strategic Environmental
Management Initiative (SEM) |
| Project website: http://ceed.allegheny.edu/sem/
The Strategic Environmental Management Initiative
works with area businesses to reduce costly waste streams and reinvent
and promote the use of sustainable products and production processes.
|
Project Director:
Donald Goldstein
Professor of Economics
Don.Goldstein@allegheny.edu
(814) 332-3340 |
Sustainable Communities |
| Project website: http://ceed.allegheny.edu/sc/
CEED has taken the lead in developing Meadville, PA: Not Your
Run of the Mill Community, a project that places our natural
assets, primarily Mill Run, an historically significant stream that
winds its way through Meadville, at the heart of community and economic
development efforts. CEED also has mobilized economic development
stakeholders in support of a Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) for Crawford
County and northwestern Pennsylvania. Through these and other college
and community initiatives, we are working to transform Meadville and
Crawford County into models of economic, ecological and social sustainability.
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Project Director:
Amara Geffen
Professor of Art
Amara.Geffen@allegheny.edu
(814) 332-3379 |
Sustainable
Forestry Project |
| Project website: http://ceed.allegheny.edu/nwpsf/
The Northwest Pennsylvania Sustainable Forestry Project
brings local forest landowners and forestry professionals together
to promote better forest management. In addition to improving woodlot
management practices, the project seeks to substantially increase
the economic contribution of the wood products industry in this region.
|
Project Director:
Terrence Bensel
Associate Professor of Environmental Science
Terry.Bensel@allegheny.edu
(814) 332-2787 |
Sustainable Manufacturing
Initiative |
| Project website: http://ceed.allegheny.edu/smi/
The Sustainable Manufacturing Initiative works directly
with local industry, specifically tool and die companies, to research,
identify and solve challenges relating to their ability to be competitive
and successful. |
Project Director:
Stephen Onyeiwu
Assistant Professor of Economics
Stephen.Onyeiwu@allegheny.edu
(814) 332-3338 |
