Dr. Alan Warner

Professor Emeritus

Community Development  Honours Program Coordinator

Email: alan.warner@acadiau.ca

Teaching

• Environmental Education

Scholarly Interests and Expertise

• Environmental Education
• Sustainable Food Systems
• Environmental Sustainability
• Community Youth Leadership

Community Service

• Nova Scotia Re-connecting with Nature Leadership Workshops, Co-Designer & Facilitator
• Magazine Editor & Board Member, Blomidon Naturalist Society
• Halifax Adventure Earth Centre, Program Development & Staff Training
• Team Lead for Earth Adventures in Nova Scotia

Did you know that Alan...

• is leading a Nova Scotia provincial strategy to train leaders to help children and youth to re-connect with nature.
• has designed numerous award-winning experiential environmental education programs in partnership with the HRM Adventure Earth Centre, involving more than 60,000 children and youth
• has accompanied students on fourth-year community development projects to live and work with Arawak peoples in the rainforests of Guyana, and with Indian villagers in the remote Himalaya.
• has twice been the Canadian Environmental Educator of the Year.
• co-founded and lives in a small intentional community that includes an organic farm and a sustainably managed woodlot.
• has biked across Canada and loves to travel the world on environmental and outdoor adventures.
• spends a lot of time in nature with his grandkids discovering the magic in nature through their eyes

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