Illène Pevec

Pevec was born in Brazil, but was brought up in Denver, Colorado. Her approach to education and life has roots in her experiences hiking, gardening, skiing and swimming as a child. Pevec is the mother of five children and has lived in Canada, Brazil, Portugal, and the United States.

Pevec attended Stanford University from 1966-1969 but later graduated from Marylhurst University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities. Pevec received her master's degree in Curriculum Studies from the University of British Columbia in 2000.{{Cite thesis|last=Pevec|first=Ilene Susan|title=The spirit of nature: transforming an inner city school grounds|date=2000|publisher=University of British Columbia|url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0054935}} In 2011, she received her doctoral degree in Design and Planning from the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Spirit of Nature Gardens began as a research project to revitalize urban school grounds through school and community gardening.{{Cite web|url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/831/1.0054935/1|title=University of British Columbia Library}} Pevec partnered with Tracy Penner to design and construct a garden that would serve inner city children as an outdoor learning environment for fine arts, gardening and cooking at the Grandview U'uqinak'uuh Community School in Vancouver. With help from students, parents, teachers, and community members, Pevec and Penner transformed one acre of underused land into a site for learning and community gatherings. The project won the "Creating Healthy Communities for Children and Youth" award from the Canadian Society for Children and Youth. Pevec also developed a curriculum for students to learn about the garden's plants, uses, and folklore.{{Cite web|url=https://garden.org/learn/articles/view/1948/|title=Creating a Cultural Connection - Garden.org|website=garden.org|language=en|access-date=2017-07-10}}

Pevec founded A Child's Garden of Peace in 2001 to provide organically grown produce, medicinal plants, and education in environmental responsibility to Brazilian communities. She worked with educators to develop community youth gardens in Santo Angelo, São Borja and Rocinha.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sdaustralia.org/childsgarden.html|title=Susila Dharma Australia}}{{Cite web|url=https://susiladharmausa.org/a-childs-garden-of-peace/|title=A Child's Garden of Peace {{!}} Susila Dharma USA|website=susiladharmausa.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-10}}

Pevec produced and co-edited a documentary about her work in Brazil entitled A Child's Garden of Peace (2005). The film toured international festivals from 2005–2006 and ran on PBS's award-winning Natural Heroes series.{{Cite web|url=http://naturalheroes.org/videos/a-childs-garden-of-peace/|title=A Child's Garden of Peace {{!}} Natural Heroes TV|website=naturalheroes.org|access-date=2017-07-13}}

In 2006, Pevec and Ian Bates developed an educational garden for 90 learning disabled students at the Facilitated Flatirons Academy in Lafayette. The Facilitated Flatirons Academy project was funded by the University of Colorado Outreach. She also created school gardens and horticulture education programs at Roaring Fork High School and Yampah Mountain High School.

Pevec is the program director at Fat City Farmers, a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 to improve personal and community health by supporting gardens and the local food system in Basalt, Colorado. Pevec coordinates garden education with regional schools in four counties and creates gardening curriculums for Colorado teachers in support of active learning.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fatcityfarmers.org/about.html|title=Fat City Farmers}} In 2014, she began an immigrant community garden at Roaring Fork High School for Spanish speaking immigrant families in partnership with Valley Settlement Project and Fat City Farmers.

• [https://www.evergreen.ca/downloads/pdfs/Patterns-Relationships-Ethnobotany.pdf Ethnobotany: Patterns in Relationships, 2002.] Vancouver, Canada: Evergreen.
• Cries in the Dark: Violence Prevention for Young People, 1995. Vancouver, Canada: Arts Umbrella.
• Arts and Multiculturalism, 1991. Vancouver, Canada: Arts Umbrella.

• Pevec, I., Barnett, M. Nzira, M., Shava, S. (2016) "Urban Agriculture." Urban Environmental Education Review.{{Cite web|url=http://cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100988800|title=Urban Environmental Education Review|website=cornellpress.cornell.edu|language=EN|access-date=2017-07-13}}
• Chawla, L, Derr, V., Pevec, I. (2016) "Early Childhood." Urban Environmental Education Review.{{Cite web|url=http://cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100988800|title=Urban Environmental Education Review|website=cornellpress.cornell.edu|language=EN|access-date=2017-07-13}}
• Chawla, L., Keena, K., Pevec, I., Stanley, E. (2014) "Green schoolyards as havens from stress and resources for resilience in childhood and adolescence." Health and Place, 28, 1-13.{{Cite journal|last1=Chawla|first1=Louise|last2=Keena|first2=Kelly|last3=Pevec|first3=Illène|last4=Stanley|first4=Emily|date=July 2014|title=Green schoolyards as havens from stress and resources for resilience in childhood and adolescence|journal=Health & Place|volume=28|pages=1–13|doi=10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.03.001|issn=1873-2054|pmid=24691122}}
• Chawla, L., Flanders-Cushing, D., Malinin, L. H., Pevec, I., van Vliet, W., and Zuniga, K. (2012). "Children and the Environment," Childhood Studies: 1–33.{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/912262012|title=A Healthy Harvest: Adolescents Grow Food and Well-Being with PolicyImplications for Education, Health and Community Planning|last=Susan.|first=Pevec, Illene|isbn=9781267108456|oclc=912262012}}
• Pevec, I., (2009) "The ethical responsibility of schools, health care facilities and youth programs to provide access to healthy environments for young people: What evidence indicates on the role that interaction with gardens plays in children's health and well-being." Environmental Design Research Association Conference Proceedings, Washington DC.
• Pevec, I. (2009). "Book Review: Building Commons and Community." Children, Youth and Environments 19 (1).{{Cite journal|last=Pevec|first=Illène|date=2009|title=Review of Building Commons and Community, Linn, Karl|jstor=10.7721/chilyoutenvi.19.1.0354|journal=Children, Youth and Environments|volume=19|issue=1|pages=354–355}}
• Pevec, I. (2007). "Book review: Doing Time in the Garden: Life Lessons Learning from Prison Horticulture." Children, Youth and Environments 17 (4).{{Cite journal|last=Pevec|first=Illène|date=2007|title=Review of Doing Time in the Garden: Life Lessons through Prison Horticulture, James, Jiler|jstor=10.7721/chilyoutenvi.17.4.0408|journal=Children, Youth and Environments|volume=17|issue=4|pages=408–411}}
• Pevec, I. (2007). "Film review: Sita, A Girl from Jambu." Children, Youth and Environments 17 (4).{{Cite journal|last=Pevec|first=Illène|date=2007|title=Film review: Sita, A Girl from Jambu|jstor=10.7721/chilyoutenvi.17.4.0442|journal=Children, Youth and Environments|volume=17|issue=4|pages=442–444}}
• Pevec, I. (2007). "Book Review: Teaching Green: The Elementary Years. Teaching Green: The Middle Years." Children, Youth and Environments 17 (2).{{Cite journal|last=Pevec|first=Illène|date=2007|title=Review of Teaching Green, The Elementary Years: Hands-On Learning in Grades K-5, Tim, Grant and Gail, Littlejohn|jstor=10.7721/chilyoutenvi.17.2.0713|journal=Children, Youth and Environments|volume=17|issue=2|pages=713–716}}
• Pevec, I. (2005). "Book Review: Gaining Ground." Children, Youth and Environments 15 (2).{{Cite journal|last=Pevec|first=Illène|date=2005|title=Review of Gaining Ground, Dyment, Janet|jstor=10.7721/chilyoutenvi.15.2.0430|journal=Children, Youth and Environments|volume=15|issue=2|pages=430–434}}
• Pevec, I., (2003). "Ethnobotanical gardens: celebrating the link between human culture and the natural world." Green Teacher, 70, 25–28.
• Pevec, I., (2000). "The Spirit of Nature: The Grandview/U'uqiank'uuh Public Art Project", British Columbia Art Teachers' Association, 40 (2), 19–24.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cityfarmer.org/grandview.html|title=Grandview Elementary School Garden|website=www.cityfarmer.org|access-date=2017-07-11}}

• Pevec, I., (2016). Growing a Life: Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy. New York: New Village Press. In Growing a Life: Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy (New Village Press, October 2016), Pevec interviews over 80 youth gardeners from Colorado, New York, New Mexico and California-based school gardening programs to investigate whether gardening affects at-risk teens' affective states and improves their ability to focus, their eating habits, and/or their environmental awareness.{{Cite web|url=https://www.boulderdowntown.com/do/illene-pevec-growing-a-life|title=ILLENE PEVEC -- "Growing a Life" {{!}} Downtown Boulder {{!}} Downtown Boulder, CO|website=www.boulderdowntown.com|language=en|access-date=2017-07-10}}{{Cite web|url=http://bluestockings.com/event/growing-a-life-release-illene-pevec-talks-about-community-gardening-youth-voices-and-her-new-book/|title=Growing a Life Release: Illène Pevec talks about community gardening, youth voices, and her new book {{!}} BLUESTOCKINGS|website=bluestockings.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-10}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.boulderbookstore.net/event/ill%C3%A8ne-pevec-growing-life|title=Illène Pevec -- "Growing a Life" {{!}} Boulder Book Store|website=www.boulderbookstore.net|language=en|access-date=2017-07-12}}{{Cite journal|last=Owens|first=Patsy Eubanks|date=2017|title=Review of Growing a Life: Teen Gardeners Harvest Food, Health, and Joy, Illène Pevec|jstor=10.7721/chilyoutenvi.27.1.0177|journal=Children, Youth and Environments|volume=27|issue=1|pages=177–180|doi=10.7721/chilyoutenvi.27.1.0177}}

• 2001: Creating Healthy Communities for Children and Youth: Canadian National Award for the Grandview Spirit of Nature Gardens and Programs, Society for Children and Youth{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
• 2001: Environmental Stewardship for the Spirit of Nature Garden, British Columbia Landscape and Nursery Association{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
• 2006–2006: Doctoral Excellence Fellowship at the University of Colorado at Denver{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
• 2006: Lynda Simmons Award for Service to Youth, presented by the Children, Youth and Environment Center for Research, University of Colorado at Denver{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}
• 2006: Outstanding Student Award: Research and Creative Activities Symposium, University of Colorado at Denver for research project by graduate students (Children's Guide to Active Living: Participatory Action Research){{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

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