GEI's Eight Study Areas
Menu For the Future - New 2008 - A six-session course exploring the connection between food and sustainability.
Global warming: Changing CO2urse - New 2007 - A four session course exploring the history and science of global warming, personal values and habits as they relate to climate change, and personal actions to curb the effects of global warming.
Healthy Children, Healthy Planet - New 2006 - Understanding how the pervasive effects of advertising, media, and our consumer culture influence a child’s view of the world; discovering ways to create meaningful family times and healthful environments; and exploring ways to develop a child's creativity and connection with nature.
Voluntary Simplicity - 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
Choices for Sustainable Living - A call to sustainability, ecological
principles, sustainable communities, sustainable business and economy,
sustainable food, sustainable buying, sustainable lifestyles, visions of
sustainability
Discovering a Sense of Place - A bioregional perspective, sense of
place, the land ethic, knowing your bioregion, living in place, mapping,
community, empowerment
Exploring Deep Ecology - Deep ecology, the Gaia hypothesis, spirituality
and the earth, the New Story of the earth, Native-American wisdom, ecopsychology,
simplicity, and bioregionalism
Globalization and Its Critics - Globalization, questioning free trade,
trans-national corporations, food in the global marketplace, environment,
social equity, shaping opinion, and homogenization of cultures.
