ECOVILLAGES AS CAMPUSES FOR SUSTAINABILITY
EDUCATION
Friday, May 29th 7:30 PM
Los Angeles Ecovillage
Dan Greenberg, Founder and Exec. Director of Living Routes
(http://www.LivingRoutes.org), 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.
No charge for this event.