Great leaders are made, not born -- and some of them are made (or at least helped along) by the Environmental Leadership Program. ELP brings together emerging environmental leaders from the worlds of nonprofit advocacy, higher education, business, and government to encourage the exchange of energy and ideas. ELP fellows have launched new groups, organized conferences, written books, tested lead levels in children, and published op-ed articles in newspapers and magazines around the country -- but some of their best work happens behind the scenes, through the creation of long-term bonds across diverse communities to make environmentalism a broad-based, sustainable, healthy movement. Last week, all of the ELP fellows gathered in Leavenworth, Wash., for a five-day retreat to do just that. Read about their goings-on, from community-building to contra dancing, in diary entries from ELP founder Paul Sabin, only on the Grist Magazine website.