PROFILE
Watershed
Intelligence Network
Located at the Wildcraft Forest, the Watershed Intelligence Network (WIN) is an independent, cooperative, social enterprise organization. We foster the efficient and restorative use of resources to create Earth and Water stewardship that will make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life sustaining for all living beings.
Watershed Intelligence Network Extension Services
The Wildcraft Forest School is a center that delivers non-institutional learning. From a forest environment, the school offers skills, insights and inspiration for creating good stewardship and positive change in the world. It engages participants in transformative education that includes wild dynamics, personal empowerment, responsibility and co-mentorship. Most of the courses integrate experiential learning and ancient wisdom within the context of wildcrafting and challenges students to perform stewardship tasks as part of various certifications.
In 2015, the Wildcraft Forest School began to provide students with an “extension” program that is delivered by the Watershed Intelligence Network. WIN Extension Services can be described as an organized exchange of information and the deliberate transfer of skills where students apply work, research, advocacy, stewardship and problem solving within bio-regions, communities and ecosystems. This effort helps to facilitate interplay and nurture synergies within a vast complex of capacity building efforts, which then enables change in individuals, communities, cooperatives and enterprise.
Students and interns are involved with the following areas of Watershed Intelligence Network Extension Services:
New Media and Publishing
Advocacy and Campaigns
- GMO Trees
Research
- Wildcraft Forest Systems
Education
Stewardship and Restoration
Neighborhood and Enterprise Development
- Wild Dynamic Initiative
- Community Supported Agriculture
The Watershed Intelligence Network is an activist New Media organization. Our focus is to help individuals, organizations, businesses and governments deliver good work within efforts that will better protect the environment and expand elements of social justice and equality. WIN provides media organizations with content and story leads, we also produce online documentaries for broadcast within our own network of e-magazines as well as for other independent media outlets.
The Watershed Intelligence Network provides advocacy services for a variety of causes connected to environmental protection and the expansion of key elements connected to social justice and equality.
- We publish books and e-magazines. We are an imprint belonging to Wildcraft Forest Books. We also produce documentary content for print and online distribution; and for audio and visual broadcasts.
- We provide consulting services for individuals, businesses, organizations and governments seeking to construct research and deliver information strategies.
- We provide written and graphic content for the production of websites, social media, newsletters, education campaigns and curriculum.
- We help writers in their efforts to publish books, websites and periodicals by providing editorial, design, layout and full production services.
- We offer media outlets with freelance writing services for news and special features.
- We offer research and business writing services that specializes in the preparation of support, outreach, funding and investment proposals as well as report and prospectus design.
Watershed is driven by a mission of environmental sustainability and stewardship. Our efforts are supported by many individuals, businesses, organizations and communities who collectively become the Watershed Intelligence Network.
Watershed supports itself through contributions from our audience, we also create partnersips that help to support productions within a framework of "public broadcasting". We also provide publishing and design services within a progressive marketplace.
The Watershed Intelligence Network was founded as a social enterprise by Don Elzer and a small group of associates. Don Elzer has been working in the field of community economic and cultural development since 1980, first as an activist, publisher and designer then as a planner and journalist.
We provide our services from British Columbia.
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