What are our goals?
• To spread the word about how communities and individuals can become engaged in becoming stewards of their neighborhoods
• To bring larger audiences to our broadcasts
• To make doers out of viewers
• To educate greater numbers of people about the benefits of implementing sustainable environmental principles in their lives, their work, and their play
• To increase awareness of how improving local environments affects the public health of our citizenry, particularly our K-12 children, by reducing disparities in open space allocations in urban areas

What tools have we developed to achieve these goals?
• We have created a four-part PBS series that focuses on four cities and their pioneering citizens who have grabbed responsibility for improving their neighborhoods. These four programs will be available for purchase on our web site (edenslostandfound.org) or, for professional performance rights, through our distributor, Bull Frog films
• We have written a 300-page PBS companion book complete with elaborate resource guide at the end. It, too, is available for purchase on our site or on the site of the publisher, Chelsea Green. Both the films and the book will be available for purchase at discounted rates (depending upon quantity) to our Outreach Partners.
• We have created a 60-page Teacher’s Guide that will encourage teachers to explore our content in their classrooms at junior and high school levels. This is a free download available on our website.
• We are creating an accredited full semester high school educational curriculum that will be available in the Fall of 2006.
• We have created four Community Action Guides plus a Citizen Forester Guide (available on our website or to download) for our four cities that can be adapted for any location in the U.S. These resources guide citizens from their armchairs into the streets of their neighborhoods, helping them to discover how, by working together, they can improve their community and become stewards.
• We will be creating more than a dozen shorter films that could be of interest to local groups. Instead of being geographically arranged, as are the PBS programs, this video resource library will be built thematically; thus, all the sequences from the four programs that deal with light rail and urban transportation would be threaded together into one program, etc.
• Eventually, we will be creating a series of local/regional town hall meetings that will act as solutions forums once they are televised through their PBS stations. Experts and citizens will share their challenges and their solutions by engaging in structured discussions that will encompass the vast range of sustainable options within a community.
• We expect that we will create at least a second season of programs that will span international as well as domestic locales where best-practice models of sustainability are being implemented successfully.

We hope that, as an Outreach Partner, you will pick an action from one or more of the following:

• Distribute our material—publicity, promotion, outreach---to your constituencies, either via email, print, or otherwise;
• Participate in the organization of our town hall meetings when they coalesce in your community;
• Designate someone on your team who could serve as liaison/organizer;
• Suggest new partners or coalitions that we –or you—might pursue to ask them to join;
• Recommend new ways for us to spread the word throughout your constituencies;
• Propose ways that we might get our educational curricula materials into the hands of those agencies/institutions with whom you already work, at the high school and college levels;
• Suggest where we might be able to obtain new lists of people who would be interested in our shared goals;
• Recommend new marketing strategies that we might pursue and implement jointly;
• Indicate which elected officials at municipal, state and federal level we might contact to present our materials;
• Indicate who on your team might serve as “advisor” for the second season of cities and subjects, domestically and internationally;
• Recommend how you might modify our materials in order to better serve your constituencies;
• Think of new potential funders who might want to be associated with the project in the PBS neighborhood in subsequent years.