Call for Papers

CYD readers and would-be writers with environmental passion, dip your pens into the well, boot up your computers. For our winter 2002 issue we are seeking articles that demonstrate the efficacy at youth/adult partnerships directed toward preserving, reclaiming, and promoting the best possible stewardship of our environment. We are interested in efforts that think globally or bio-regionally but act locally. Ideally, we would like articles that illustrate partnerships among youth, local schools, and community-based environmental groups--i.e., practices that embrace the CYD framework as a method for promoting environmental stewardship. We also seek articles from youth and adults that address the need for youth connection at the scientific and spiritual level to the natural world. As always, submissions must illustrate good practice, sound research, and solid theory as pertaining to our theme.

As you ponder possibilities consider some of the following questions:

• How can we best prepare out youth for stewardship of our planet?
  
  
• What can young people learn from a close, intimate association with the natural world?
  
  
• Aside from the obvious health and food considerations are there other benefits, such as aesthetic and spiritual, to building environmental stewardship?
  
  
• Is there a role for urban youth? How can they reclaim and enhance the urban environment?
  
  
• How can we promote and preserve environmental justice?
  
  
• What actions are necessary for us, as citizens, to gain control over stewardship of the environment.

As always we are looking for "out of the box" thinking that includes consideration of race relations, social justice, privilege, and poverty.
Send us your submissions!

Article deadline: October 1, 2001
Publication date: February, 2002

Email: submissions@cydjournal.org
Snail-mail: CYD Journal, P.O. Box 33, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Phone: 617-522-3435