ECOVILLAGES AS CAMPUSES FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION
Monday May 18 7 PM Ecovillage at Ithaca , First neighborhood
(Frog) Common House
Dan Greenberg, Founder and Exec. Director of Living Routes, is a
dynamic presenter with a great mission and a great slide show.
Ecovillages are communities striving to create cooperative lifestyles
in harmony with their local environments. From appropriate
technologies to holistic health; from sustainable agriculture to
group facilitation, ecovillages are integrating solutions within
human-scale communities and creating new cultures and "stories" in
which we can live well - and lightly. In the process, they are
developing real-world models of sustainable development that make
ideal "campuses" where students can learn about sustainability while
striving to live it.
Come learn about the growing ecovillage movement worldwide (e.g.,
Findhorn, Scotland; Auroville, India; Sirius, MA), the possibilities
and challenges of using these communities as contexts for education
and social change, and the work of Living Routes, which partners with
UMass-Amherst to offer study abroad programs based in ecovillages
worldwide.
Daniel Greenberg, Ph.D. has studied and directed community-based
educational programs for over 20 years. He wrote his thesis on
children and education in community, and later spent a year at
Findhorn in Scotland working with children and families there. He is
founder and Executive Director of Living Routes, which develops
accredited ecovillage-based education programs that promote
sustainability. He lives at the Sirius Community in Shutesbury,
Massachusetts USA with his wife, Monique and their two daughters,
Simone and Pema.
http://www.LivingRoutes.org
For travel directions or other info, contact Elan at
[email protected]
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