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About Sense of Wonder
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Sense of Wonder Environmental Education was created out of the realization that Nova Scotians, young and old, must come to better understand our inherent place within the natural world. By doing so they are more able and willing to protect and conserve nature, thereby creating an environmentally sustainable society.
Janet Barlow, Director
 Sense of Wonder's Director is Janet Barlow. Janet is an environmental educator and writer living in Halifax. She has designed and run environmental and earth education programs for over 15 years. She is also a former summer camp counsellor and coordinator. Under the alias of “Willow” Janet is in her prime sharing nature with children and youth.
She has worked with a variety of nonprofit and governmental organizations including the NS Department of the Environment, Clean Nova Scotia and the Halifax Regional Adventure Earth Centre. Currently she manages the Active & Safe Routes to School program for the Ecology Action Centre and is the Communications Coordinator for Hike Nova Scotia. Janet is co-author of a trail activity book called Earth Adventures in the Halifax Region: 24 Nature Trails for Fun and Discovery, 3rd Edition (A. Warner, J. Barlow and G. Taylor, 2010) as well as Earth Adventures in Moncton (A. Warner and J. Barlow, 2004). She was also a weekly columnist for the Halifax Daily News for four years.
Janet is the Nova Scotia regional editor for Green Teacher magazine, coordinates the Environmental Interpretation module for the Nova Scotia Outdoor Leadership Development Program and is the Canada Country Coordinator for the Sharing Nature Foundation.
Janet has been trained directly by Steve Van Matre, creator of Earth Education, Joseph Cornell of the Sharing Nature Foundation and Doug McKenzie-Mohr in Community-based Social Marketing. She has an honours degree in Biology as well as certificates in Adult Education and Community Economic Development and Fundraising. Further training includes: Trail Warden training, Wilderness and Remote First Aid, Writing for Children and Improving Nonprofit Governance.
Her professional affiliations include membership in the Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication as well as the Environmental Education Caucus of the Nova Scotia Environmental Network.
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