Global Warming/Changing Course
This four week course takes on the hot
topic of global warming in a pro-active series of discussion
sessions that weave the history and science of global warming
together with strategies and significant actions for individuals to
take that will lead to the mitigation of the greatest global
challenge of our time. Topics include:
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Where Did We Go Wrong?
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What Will Happen?
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What Can We Do?
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A Vision of a Sustainable Future?
Discovering a way of life that is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.
- The meaning of simplicity
- Living more with less
- Your money or your life
- Do you have the time?
- How much is enough?
- Swimming against the tide
- The practice of
simplicity
Learning about our relationship to the Earth.
- The meaning of deep ecology
- The Gaia hypothesis
- Spirituality and the earth
- Native American wisdom
- Eco-psychology
- Simplicity
- Bioregionalism
- Ritual
Your natural community - the magic between people and place.
- A sense of place
- Responsibility to your place
- Knowing your bioregion
- Living in place
- Mapping your bioregion
- Community
- Empowerment
Choices for Sustainable Living
- Moving toward a sustainable lifestyle.
- A call to sustainability
- Ecological principles
- Sustainable communities
- Sustainable businesses
- Sustainable food
- Sustainable buying
- Sustainable lifestyles
- Visions of
sustainability
Seeing the interconnections.
- Globalization Overview
- Questioning free trade
- Food in the global marketplace
- Globalization and the environment
- Social equity
- Shaping opinion
- Homogenization of
cultures
Healthy Children - Healthy Planet
- Encouraging children and families.
- Cultural pressures
- Family rituals and celebrations
- Advertising and the media
- Food and health
- Time
- Exploring nature
- Technology and child development
- Education and
creativity
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