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Kentucky Environmental Education Council1997The Kentucky Environmental Education Council is a state agency established to improve Kentuckians' understanding of their environment and to provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make informed environmental decisions. The Council focuses primarily on primary and secondary education, although it also works with colleges and universities, businesses, and other organizations. In 1997 Rona designed and facilitated a process that led to the development of Kentucky's first Master Plan for Environmental Education. The final plan contains 20 recommendations that, if implemented, would result in improved environmental literacy in the next century. At the outset of this effort, Rona suggested that the task force responsible for the Master Plan host an open space event as the launch point for its work on the Master Plan. The Task Force agreed to the open space concept. Members generated an invitation list that included the whole spectrum of views on environmental education, including people with strong environmental interests, government leaders, representatives from business and industry, and educators from elementary through graduate school. These participants spent two days identifying elements for inclusion in the Master Plan. At the end of the two days, the Task Force had an outline of a plan, a sense of the most important contents for each part of the outline, and, perhaps most important, a significant amount of interest and buy-in from the more than 40 diverse participants. 
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