Woods Hole summer resident goes to Japan on a Fulbright teacher exchange

For many years Josh Olins has lived
in Woods Hole for the summer. For the rest of the year, he teaches first grade
in Maine.  He has been teaching lower elementary grades for 20 years and
has recently designed and implemented a successful single stream recycling and
composting program in his 900 student school in Maine.  

For the past five  years he has helped the Woods Hole Public
Library with the summer carnival for kids by rehabilitating old bicycles given
to the Library to recycle into the community. He sets up his bike stand and
fixes the bikes onsite during the carnival, making them ready for sale.

   He obviously has a strong interest in
the  Education of Sustainability and just
the day before the carnival returned from a 2 week teacher exchange with like-minded
teachers in Japan. The trip was part of the Fulbright Japan-US teacher exchange
for the Education of Sustainability Development (ESD. He will speak about his
work and recent trip to Japan at an illustrated talk at the Woods Hole Public
Library on Wednesday, July 30, at 7:30 PM,. He will also share his thoughts on the
education of sustainability.

For more details, call the Library
at 508-548-8961 or view the website woodsholepubliclibrary.org.