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Environmental Communication Special Issue
Communicating Hydrofracking 

Deadline 5th January 2015

I am pleased to announce that a new Special Issue of Environmental Communication has just been published online.

Environmental Communication: Research Into Practice

Online course: June 9 to July 17, 2014

Folks, I have been working hard behind the scenes to bring you four big new member benefits:

1. The Member News section
2. The Database of Nature and Environmental Films
3. The EC List Database
4. The Environmental Communication Master Bibliography

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Reflections on COCE 2013

Stacey K. Sowards, Ph.D.

Department of Communication

The University of Texas at El Paso

Board Member, International Environmental Communication Association

June 16, 2013

The IECA Board and Executive Director Mark Meisner are very pleased to announce that the 13th biennial Conference on Communication and Environment (COCE) will be held in Boulder, Colorado in 2015.

Our hosts will be J. Harrison Carpenter and Dale Miller of the University of Colorado Boulder, known as CU Boulder.

Dates have yet to be decided, but COCE 2015 will be some time in June.

Watch the IECA web site for more details. We hope to see you in Boulder.

Members and friends:  I was asked by Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, organizer of COCE 2013, to introduce the conference keynote speaker, John Dryzek.  As part of my introductory comments, I posed the question, "What will IECA look like in 2018?"  Here is how I answered the question---
 
In 2018, five years from now, IECA will have:
 
*achieved three consecutive years in which revenue meets or exceeds expenditures
 
*increased its individual membership three-fold, to over 850 members, with at least a third of those members coming from non-academic sectors (education, practitioner, NGO, etc.)
 
*increased its organizational members to 25