From lee.riddell at yahoo.com  Thu Jun 21 15:14:09 2007
From: lee.riddell at yahoo.com (Lee Riddell)
Date: Thu Jun 21 15:14:57 2007
Subject: [HEEPP] collecting stories for possible chicken soup
Message-ID: <800912.50871.qm@web57410.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

Dear Colleagues in Sustainability,
 We are trying to get mainstream books and publications about sustainability.  One of our efforts is to get a Chicken Soup book about sustainability, so we are collecting a few stories to be potentially used in such a book.  We are interested in your moments of realization, when you first got the awareness and/or the importance or the beauty or the urgency of moving towards sustainability.  In order to submit the ideas to the Chicken Soup people, we need a few sample stories. 
 Stories for Chicken Soup books, according to their proposal forms, ?have 
 an ending that often closes with a punch, creating emotion rather than simply talking about it.? The stories they want have an element that ?makes us all feel more hopeful, more connected, more thankful, more passionate and better about life in general. A story that causes tears, laughter, goose bumps or any combination of these. A good story covers the range of human emotions. The most powerful stories are about people extending themselves, or performing an act of love, service or courage for another person.?  
 Some Chicken Soup guidelines for a story: 
 ?          Tell an exciting, sad or funny story about something that has happened to you or someone you know. Make sure that you introduce the character(s). 
 ?          Tell your story in a way that will make the reader cry, laugh or get goose bumps (the good kind!) Don?t leave anything out ? how did you feel? 
 ?           The story should start with action; it should include a problem, issue or situation. It should include dialogue and the character should express their feelings though the conflict or situation. It should end in a result, such as a lesson learned, a positive change or pay-off. 
 ?          Above all, let it come from your HEART! Your story is important! 
 We are looking to create a book that describes how people from all walks of life are waking up to sustainability from their different perspectives.   If you are interested in writing a story from your perspective and/or have ideas for chapter topics please email Debra Rowe, President and Lee Riddell, Higher Education Sector Team, both of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development at dgrowe@oaklandcc.edu

Lee Riddell
Higher Education Sector Team

Debra Rowe, Ph.D.
President

U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
www.uspartnership.org
 
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