Ann Hempelmann

Experience

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  Southern California Gas Company

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1999

  Air Quality/Environmental Auditing/Energy Systems

  Environmental engineer and project manager for 13 years, primarily managing SoCalGas' customer air quality program. My team prepared workshops, seminars, handbooks and other products and services, all directed toward translating complex state, federal, and local laws for major commercial and industrial businesses. (1986 – 1999). I was responsible for managing an annual budget of $500,000, including planning to ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and managing day-to-day contract and expense matters. Show less

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  Ann Hempelmann Sustainability Education & Consulting

  Jan 2000 - Nov 2023

  Sustainability Consultant

  Education Projects: Board, Staff and Teacher Sustainability Training, Systems and Sustainability Curriculum Planning and Development, Sustainable School Transformation, Community Connections, Service Learning. Nature connection, a sustainability worldview, and principles of ecology inform all programs.Recent education projects include working with Western Washington University's Facing the Future program to plan and develop a sustainability program for high school students, focusing on developing a sustainability worldview and building a sense of connection with nature. The program includes a reader, student activity workbook, and teacher's guide. Other education projects include a guide to help a K-8 charter school incorporate sustainability principles into its existing curriculum; and a training program for a sustainability-focused charter school board of directors, emphasizing ecological principles and systems thinking; and advising a school board of directors on grant applications.Business Projects: Sustainability Planning, Employee Training, Workshop Development and Presentation, all based on the 3 P's (People, Planet and Prosperity) and ecological principles. Recent business projects include creating an executive-level sustainability strategic plan for a major energy-industry client, including a 10-year implementation plan, sustainability primer, and communication tool. Other projects have included climate change impact analysis; sustainability strategic planning; federal, state and local grant applications; grant tracking; and regulatory analysis. Business clients include manufacturers, industry-level research organizations, and public utility. Show less

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  Client: Western Washington University

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2017

  Lead Author, Big World, Small Planet

  I served as lead author for Facing the Future's new high school-level sustainability and global issues series, Big World, Small Planet. The series offers learners an opportunity to engage with local and global sustainability issues and helps learners develop a sustainability worldview, a positive future focus and a sense of agency. My role was to co-create the series' learning objectives and scope, write content, design activities, create nature connection reflections, and develop the Teacher Edition. Early in the project, I coordinated the work with Western Washington University faculty, student assistants and another author. I worked closely with the copy editor and graphic designer to help develop a final product. I supported the marketing process by identifying potential customers and preparing marketing materials.Big World, Small Planet covers core concepts and thinking strategies like big ideas of sustainability, systems thinking and using ecological principles to solve sustainability issues. Learners apply concepts and strategies to their own lives, as well as real-world issues including biodiversity, food, water, air, energy, consumerism and climate change. The series is presented in four modules, each covering four weeks of text, hands-on activities and nature connection reflections. Teacher Editions are available for each module. These editions present teaching strategies as well as solutions for the limited number of question-and-answer activities, like those used to practice using systems thinking tools. The interdisciplinary series aligns with Next Generation Science Standards, Common Core English Language Arts Standards and National Council for the Social Studies Thematic Strands. The North American Association of Environmental Education's best practices for environmental literacy were used throughout, including interdependence, systems thinking, a sense of place, roots in the real world, and experiential learning. Show less

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  Client: Angeles Workshop School

  Sept 2016 - Oct 2016

  Sustainable Business Class Facilitator

  Angeles Workshop School's high school students undertook a year-long project to develop businesses. We spent four weeks at the beginning of the project exploring ways to make their businesses environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. I developed a custom program for the project, including presentations, hands-on activities and discussions. The program included presenting sustainability principles, identifying ways to incorporate these principles into business strategies, evaluating examples of businesses that have adopted sustainable practices, and coaching the students on building sustainability principles into their business ideas. Show less

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  Client: Global Classroom and Facing the Future

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2017

  Educator's Workshop Facilitator

  I created and facilitated Global Classroom's educator workshop, "Bringing Sustainability into Your Classroom." Teachers were given an overview of sustainability education and investigated frameworks for looking at the world, exploring values and finding solutions to bring about a more sustainable world. The session also looked at ways to build sustainability skills and habits, like personal responsibility and interconnectedness, and provided tangible ways to connect sustainability to classroom projects and curriculum. During a hands-on workshop, teachers applied sustainability content to their own curriculum. Teachers received three clock hours (with STEM components) for attending the workshop. Show less

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  Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation

  Jan 2018 - May 2019

  California Program Manager and Educator

  The Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF) has been offering sustainability education-focused professional development to teachers, school administrators, informal educators and others since 2003. CELF provides proven, systematic, comprehensive training to help schools incorporate sustainability big ideas into their curriculum, campus activities and community relationships through place- and project-based learning. During my time at CELF, the organization worked with the two largest school districts in the U.S.: New York City Department of Education and the Los Angeles Unified School District. My role was to expand CELF's presence in California and work directly with our partner schools to implement their sustainability programs. Work included creating and delivering professional development workshops for teachers and school administrators, facilitating and supporting teachers as they developed and implemented sustainability elements into their curriculum, working on-site with school staff to identify campus sustainability initiatives, preparing status reports for grant funders and Board members, and conducting outreach to prospective school clients. Our goal was to help all students understand how to live responsibly in alignment with Earth's natural systems and build a just, sustainable future for all. Show less

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  Being on earth

  Oct 2022 - now

  Founder

  Internal Family Systems-based personal and group work to for everyday sacredness and planetary wellbeing. We address limiting beliefs of separation from nature, one another, and our higher Self, framed within a new cosmology of belonging in the universe, and support growth regenerative, ecological living.