Ecovillage Design Southwest - Emerging Economics - Feb 9-17

www.ecovillagedesignsouthwest.org


Join us in Albuquerque, New Mexico,  February 9-17, 2008 as we hold the vision of co-creating a world that works for everyone by 2050.  In an exciting 9 day exploration in design process, you will discover the fundamental pattern shifts that are beginning to happen in our economic and monetary systems necessary to make that world a reality. You will apply these design patterns, principles and practices in your personal life and projects so that you can begin bringing forth that world in your life immediately.

What a treat for us to have four great leaders of the new social and economic paradigm joining us for this exploration:

Rich Ruster: Ph.D in holistic psychology and whole systems science; author of The Homing Process: A Unifying Theory of Evolving Systems & The Human Dream Blog at richardruster.com; Executive Steward of Hummingbird Community in Northern New Mexico


Vicki Robin: co-author of Your Money or Your Life, Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence; President of The New Road Map Foundation; developer of Conversation Café,

 


Maggie Seeley: Managing Partner of Green It! The Sustainability Team, City of Albuquerque consultant; International Business Consultant; UNM teacher in the Sustainability Studies Department and the Anderson Graduate School of Management,


Laird Schaub: Canbridge Consulting and Facilitation, teacher, trainer, and facilitator in consensus decision making and conflict resolution,; Co-Founder and Executive Secretary for the Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC); Co-Founder of Sandhill Farm, an egalitarian community modeling alternative economics.


Other teachers include Ecovillage Design Education team teachers
Zaida Amaral, Ma'ikwe Ludwig Shaub, Christopher Mare and Kat Steele.

Come explore with us such subjects as Shifting the Global Economy to Sustainability; Local Currencies; Right Livelihood; Social Enterprises; Ecovillage Principles; Natural Capitalism; Ecology of Commerce; Triple Bottom Line; Nurturing Local Economies; and more.
 
This course is the Economic Dimension of Ecovillage Design Education,
an advanced sustainability certification curriculum endorsed by the United Nations. 

Fee $550.

For more information go to www.ecovillagedesignsouthwest.org and call Robert Griffin at 505-366-4700.