[SustainableTompkins] International Ecovillages & Sustainability Education

[Elan Shapiro]

Hi everyone,

My friend and colleague, Daniel Greenberg, founder and Executive 
Director of "Living Routes", which offers immersion courses for U.S. 
students in ecovillages around the world, will be giving a talk on 
the international ecovillage movement, and the possibilities for 
sustainability education.  The talk will be at 7pm on Tuesday, 
October 24th at the EcoVillage Common House (first neighborhood). The 
talk is free and open to the public. (Ironically, I may not be able 
to attend, since I will be leaving the next morning for a three week 
speaking tour to inspire budding ecovillages in Japan and the 
Phillipines!)

Liz Walker, Executive Director
EcoVillage at Ithaca


"Ecovillages as campuses for sustainability education and social change"

		 Tuesday, Oct. 24th, 7pm, EcoVillage Common House 
-first neighborhood


Ecovillages are communities striving to model sustainable development 
- ecologically, socially, culturally, and spiritually. 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. Come learn about 
the growing ecovillage movement worldwide (e.g., Findhorn, Scotland; 
Auroville, India; and Sirius, MA) and explore the possibilities and 
challenges of using these communities as sites for education and 
social change.


Daniel Greenberg has studied and directed community-based educational 
programs for over 17 years. He visited and corresponded with over 200 
U.S. intentional communities for his Ph.D. dissertation 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 partners with 
UMass-Amherst to develop accredited ecovillage-based education 
programs that promote sustainability.  He lives at the Sirius 
Community in Shutesbury, Massachusetts with his wife, Monique and 
their two daughters, Simone and Pema.

Living Routes
Study Abroad Programs for a Sustainable Future
UMass Amherst-accredited January, Summer, Semester and Year Abroad 
programs in Ecovillages worldwide
  http://www.livingroutes.org

Study Abroad in Ecovillages, or sustainable communities, where issues 
of ecological sustainability and social justice meet. In Ecovillages 
around the world, people are creating and modeling sustainable 
lifestyles in harmony with their local environments - restoring 
ecosystems and habitat, developing participatory models of 
governance, growing Fair-traded organic food, building "green" homes, 
and utilizing renewable resources such as wind and solar energy.

These communities provide ideal "campuses"  to immerse yourself in 
academic,experiential and service learning about sustainability, and 
prepare for lives and careers that make a difference.

Living Routes offers accredited study abroad programs (January, 
Summer, Semester and Year Abroad) with integrated Service Learning in 
Ecovillages in India, Scotland, Senegal, Brazil, Peru, Mexico and the 
U.S  All Living Routes programs contain an intergrated Service 
Learning component. Students receive an academic transcript from 
UMass Amherst, and academic credit is widely transferable to colleges 
and universities throughout the U.S.

Earn 4 or 16 academic credits as you:

Learn about the indigenous use of medicinal plants and intern in 
teaching in southern India
Study Human Ecology, help regenerate forests, and live on a 
self-sufficient island in Scotland
Get hands-on experience in sustainable development and build fluency 
in French in Senegal
Build a super adobe house, learn organic farming and dance Capoiera 
in tropical Brazil
Become a skilled consensus facilitator & leader for social change in 
the volcano belt of Mexico
Design ecological homesteads/landscapes with expert faculty in 
beautiful western Mass.
Learn how Amazonian Fair Trade Coffee coops protect biodiversity and 
a living wage in Peru

To learn what students learn and experience day-to-day on one of our 
programs, check out our student Blogs at 
http://www.livingroutes.org/weblogs/weblog.php

Please feel free to pass this information on to Listservs,  faculty, 
and students you think might be interested in our programs.We accept 
students on a rolling admissions basis. For an application, please go 
to  http://www.livingroutes.org/admissions/apply.htm
-- 
Elan Shapiro
Sustainable Tompkins Program Co-Chair
Sustainable Living Associates, Principal
Frog's Way B&B
211 Rachel Carson Way
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-275-0249

"We must be the change we want to see in the world"
	          Mohandas Gandhi