Edens Lost & Found co-director/producer Harry Wiland and environmental educator Deb Perryman of Elgin High School in Illinois are among presentors at the North American Association of Environmental Educators 35th annual conference, held this year October 10-14, in St. Paul, MN.

Wiland will host a one-hour segment from Edens Lost & Found, a public television series that focuses on strategies that contribute to sustainable urban environments. The strategies include parks and open space, urban forestry, watershed management, public art, waste disposal, recycling, green architecture and mass transit alternatives.

Deb Perryman, Illinois Teacher of the Year for 2005, will co-host the Edens presentation with Wiland. Perryman, who is featured in the Chicago segment of Edens Lost & Found, has championed a "service learning approach" that NAAEE is weaving through the conference this year. Perryman is working with Edens Lost & Found to compile curricula that focus on sustainability issues. NAAEE has a preconference workshop on service learning and is planning a community service project for conference participants. Next year's NAAEE conference in Virginia Beach will have an entire strand on service learning.

The symposium will focus on how integrated management of natural resources (water, air, land, green environment) fosters revitalization of the urban environment overall, including physical, social, environmental and economic aspects.

Organizers are the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Urban Research, and Penn's Office of the Provost's Global Forum as well as Edens Lost & Found and the Media and Policy Center Foundation.