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January 20, 2009 Sustainability and Comprehensive Planning, the fourth of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm
   

February 10 –
March 24, 2009

February 11 –
March 25, 2009

 The North Central Regional Center for Rural Development will host the Spring 2009 Training of Component One of the Foundations of Practice Series: Understanding Communities and their Dynamics. This is a distance education program consisting of a series of seven one and one-half hour sessions. For more information, visit http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/projects/corecomp/component1-spring2009.htm.
   
February 17, 2009 Sustainable Business Practices and Strategies, the fifth of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm
   
February 18 – 20, 2009 The 2009 JCEP Regional Leadership Meeting for the Western and North Central Regions will be held at the San Diego Marriott Del Mar in San Diego, California. For more information, visit http://www.jcep.org
   
February 26 – 27, 2009 USDA's 85th Agricultural Outlook Forum, "Global Agriculture & Rural America in Transition," will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. For more information, visit http://www.usda.gov/oce/forum.
   
March 17, 2009 Green Collar Jobs: Sustainable Work in a Low Carbon World, the sixth of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm
   
March 23 – 27, 2009 Two courses will be offered at the Community Development Academy at The Elms in Excelsior Springs, Missouri: Course 1: Building Community From the Grassroots and Course 2: Empowering Communities for the Future. For more information, visit http://muconf.missouri.edu or contact Erica Lovercamp at (573) 882-9552 or muconf8@missouri.edu.
   
April 20 – 22, 2009 NACDEP 2009, "Creating Sustainable Communities in a Changing America," will be held at the Double Tree Hotel, San Diego Mission Valley, in San Diego, California. For more information, visit http://www.nacdep.net.
   
April 21, 2009 Local Food Networks: Food Localization as a Sustainability Strategy, the seventh of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm
   
April 27 – 29, 2009 The Joint Council of Extension Professionals will host the 2009 Public Issues Leadership Development Conference at the Key Bridge Marriott in Arlington, Virginia. For more information, visit http://www.jcep.org
   
May 13-15, 2009 The 2009 Business Retention and Expansion International (BREI) Annual Conference, "Sustainable Development: The Perfect Package," will be held in Des Moines, Iowa. For more information, please visit http://www.brei.org/Conferences/2009/Conf2009.aspx
   
May 19, 2009 Sustainability Indicators and Measurements, the eighth of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm
   
May 19-20, 2009 Enhancing Local and Regional Food Systems: Exploring the Science, What Works, and What We Need to Learn, sponsored by the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, will be held at the Hudson Valley Resort in Kerhonkson, NY. For more information, visit http://www.nercrd.psu.edu/LocalFoods/Conference.html
   
June 14 – 17, 2009 The National Extension Tourism Conference, NET 2009, will be held at The Yarrow Resort Hotel and Conference Center in Park City, Utah. More information will be available soon on the National Extension Tourism Design Team Web site, http://extensiontourism.net.
   
June 16, 2009

Community Organizing for Sustainability, the last of nine sessions in the Building Communities Educational Series, will be offered online using WisLine. This program is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Community and Economic Development and Sustainability and Energy Teams. For more information, please visit http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/communities/Building_Community.cfm
   
July 26 – 29, 2009 The Community Development Society will hold their 41st annual international conference, "Celebrating Community: Finding Hope in Uncertain Times," in Memphis, Tennessee. For more information, visit http://comm-dev.org.
   
July 30 – August 2, 2009 The 72nd Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society will be held in Madison, Wisconsin. The theme of the 2009 meeting is "Climate Change and Societal Response: Livelihoods, Communities and the Environment." For more information, visit http://ruralsociology.org/annual-meeting/2009.
   

September 29 –
November 10, 2009

September 30 –
November 11, 2009

 The North Central Regional Center for Rural Development will host the Fall 2009 Training of Component One of the Foundations of Practice Series: Understanding Communities and their Dynamics. This is a distance education program consisting of a series of seven one and one-half hour sessions. For more information, visit http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/projects/corecomp/component1-fall2009.htm.
   

 
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