WARREN, VT - SEEDS' staff Maeve McBride, Barton Kirk, Pete Muñoz & Harold Leverenz are teaching several courses at Yestermorrow Design/Build School including Rain Garden Design, Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment, and Resigning Wastewater. Yestermorrow offers over 100 hands-on courses per year in design, construction, woodworking, and architectural craft and offers a variety of courses concentrating in sustainable design. Now in its 25th year, Yestermorrow is one of the only design/build schools in the country, teaching both design and construction skills.

TRAVERSE CITY, MI - The Daniel Pennock Democracy School is a stimulating and illuminating course that teaches citizens and activists how to reframe exhausting and often discouraging single issue work (such as opposing toxic dumps, quarries, factory farms, etc.) in a way that we can confront corporate control on a powerful single front: people’s constitutional rights.

BURLINGTON, VT - SEEDS' Co-founder Pete Muñoz and Board of Director Johanna Miller spent Labor Day weekend with hundreds of other concerned citizens in a walk toward a clean energy future. Founded by Bill McKibben, and actualized by hundreds of volunteers, ‘From the Road Less Traveled: Vermonters Walking Toward a Clean Energy Future' has catalyzed a grassroots effort to make personal and political changes in our current energy practices and policies.  The walk was largely organized by Johanna Miller, Outreach Director of the Vermont Natural Resource Council (VNRC). For more information about climate change, check out:

TRAVERSE CITY, MI – We are so grateful to Haley DeKorne, who has been working steadily to update our Green Map database and has been doing Great Lakes Bioneers outreach. Haley is a Traverse City native and a linguistic anthropologist by training. We feel very lucky to garner her interest in our organizational activities and it has been a real pleasure to work alongside this self-motivated, action-oriented, conscientious woman!

Interns 2 & 3 were Emily Dayton and Alexandra Leonard. Both are students at Kalamazoo College and came to us through the school's "externship" program, which provides students with short internships at dynamic organizations. We had a blast putting these two extraordinary young women to work. They created the first newsletter for Todd Springer's CSA farm and helped out on a variety of outreach tasks. Emily, from Traverse City, is now on her way to Senegal for foreign study and Alexandra, from Mason, Michigan, is going back to Kalamazoo and planning to organize a bus-load of students to come to the Great Lakes Bioneers Conference in October. Many thanks to these two for their invigorating enthusiasm for learning and also to Kalamazoo College for acting as match-maker!

OXFORD, MI - The thatched roof Strawbale Studio (SBS) and its Natural Building Project seeks to lower the ecological footprint of building practices by empowering others to take part in the construction and design of structures and supportive environments that are ecologically sustainable and beautiful. SBS has formed a fiduciary and outreach partnership with SEEDS to expand its educational capacity. Contact Coordinator, Deanne Bednar at Strawbale Studio.

SEEDS and Ambler Design bring you classroom aquatic ecosystems. Bring a ‘living laboratory’ in to your classroom. This miniature ecosystem is a powerful tool for experiential learning and an integrated curriculum for all ages!