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Recent Events
Drs. Lane and Steklis discussed how emotional awareness is a *skill* that requires effort to acquire, and seems to be uniquely human. Emotional awareness evolved with self-aware consciousness and language to promote social accountability in human groups. Netzin Steklis lead a discussion how our present educational institutions should recognize the critical importance of teaching self-awareness (especially emotional awareness).
Yale Club of Southern ArizonaDecember 2009
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Year of the Gorilla 2009
LIVE link to Guadalajara Zoo
August 2009
LIVE link to Guadalajara Zoo
August 2009
<-click to see slide show Long-Term Gorilla Conservation
Requires Long-Term Commitment
Requires Long-Term Commitment
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Upcoming Events
What Gorillas Can Teach Us About Fatherhood
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
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Outdoor Environmental Education
Summer Camp
June 7-11, 2010
Click here to see how
Empire Ranch /
Las Cienegas National Conservation Area has become a field classroom through
Wild About the Grasslands !
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
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Outdoor Environmental Education
Summer Camp
June 7-11, 2010
Click here to see how
Empire Ranch /
Las Cienegas National Conservation Area has become a field classroom through
Wild About the Grasslands !
Project HighlightsScience ~
"Deadbeat dad"
"Father knows best"
"Like father like son"
"Daddy's little princess"
"Father knows best"
"Like father like son"
"Daddy's little princess"
Our culture has spun a host of colorful concepts around the father-child relationship, but do they hold up beyond our species? Dieter & Netzin Steklis, two researchers from the University of Arizona explore this question.
Conservation ~
Range Riders
Youth stewardship of public lands
Youth stewardship of public lands
Range Riders on Global Youth Service Day
Education ~
7 Literacies Overview
Current US education aims to produce competitive players in a global marketplace. This seems to be resulting in a world of unhappy technicians, leading unexamined lives, working in a (failing) zero-sum global economic system. Our aim is to provide a new educational framework with a very different goal:
Individuals thriving
in a globally sustainable way
in a globally sustainable way