Dave Bauer, M.S.
Dave Bauer, M.S., is president of Sustainable Earth Solutions, Inc. Dave retired from teaching Environmental Science after 34 years of wonderful work with the students of Alden High School, New York, USA. He has been chairperson for the Erie I BOCES project that developed a model for reacting to an environmental crisis; helped to develop the Gifted and Talented program and Team Teaching in the middle school; organized the Education Festival for the district and has served as district Wellness Coordinator. David specializes in Mastery Learning, Cooperative Learning and Learning Style theory. He has served as the district Creative Youth Leadership program coordinator.
Awards include:
- Toyota tapestry Environmental Grant Award
- New York State Gas and Electric Energy Grant Award
- Erie County Buffalo River Watershed Award
- Erie County Pollution Prevention Award
Sustainable Earth Solutions, Inc. is a training business through which participants become skillful in the application of creative problem solving in the design of environmental projects. Dave has discovered that when persons/organizations use creative problem solving as developed at the International Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College, the following are enhanced:
- persons involved in the process feel more empowered as change agents,
- cooperation and communication among parties is greater ,
- the implementation of Action Plans is more effective,
- and solutions are more likely to be sustainable.
A recent article in Green Teacher magazine highlighted Dave’s success in applying creativity to environmental projects. At the summer Creative Youth Leadership camp, Dave serves as a yoga instructor and facilitator for workshops. In May 2006, a one year contract concluded in which his business assisted the city of Buffalo in increasing the recycling rate. He has designed the Environmental Youth Summits for schools and youth organizations in New York and services youth in poverty areas of the Buffalo area.
He is currently partnering with Ecology and Environmental, Inc. to create an international web site, Project Earth, for schools to address environmental challenges in their schools and communities as well as the Ashford Hollow Foundation in Buffalo, New York for unique environmental challenges addressing sustainability within the Western New York region. He is also in the planning stages of a two month trip to Cameroon Africa to assist the Himalayan Institute in training youth to address environmental challenges in rural villages near Kumbo Africa.
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