Garden State
Earth Institute Course Offerings
The courses are suitable for workplace,
schools, nonprofit and government organization, faith centers,
community/neighborhood groups and in private homes. More than 2500 have
been given in 46 states.
Discussion Group format:
Classes of six to twelve participants meet for an hour to an
hour and a half at a location of their choice. The only cost is $20.00
for the course book.
Course book contains
background material, articles from the contemporary literature,
stimulating questions for discussion, a guide to facilitation,
references, and resources.
Process: Participants
read the articles before each session. A Garden State Earth
Institute volunteer facilitates the first session only. Facilitation
then rotates among the participants making for an egalitarian group.
The goal is to stimulate discussion wherein
everyone's opinion is heard and respected,
and to encourage personal choice of actions.
We offer the following courses:
Courses:
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Voluntary Simplicity
The voluntary simplicity course allows participants to explore the potential
benefits of simplicity.
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| Topics covered in the eight sessions include: |
- The Meaning of Simplicity
- Your Money or Your Life?
- How Much is Enough
- The Practice of
Simplicity
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- Living More with Less
- Do You Have the Time?
- Swimming Against the Tide
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Choices for Sustainable Living
Each of us makes choices that have an impact on
the earth, and we can choose options that are more sustainable than
others. Participants will consider choices that may result in
ecologically sustainable lifestyles, communities, and
organizations.
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| Topics covered in the nine sessions include: |
- A Call to Sustainability
- Sustainable Communities
- Food
- Lifestyles
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- Ecological Principles
- Business and Economy
- Buying
- Visions of Sustainability
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Discovering a Sense of Place
What is a bioregional perspective? What are the
benefits of developing an intimate relationship with your place and
what it means to protect the place you live? This course addresses
these issues.
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| Topics covered in the eight sessions include: |
- A Sense of Place
- Knowing Your Bioregion
- Mapping Your Place
- Empowerment
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- Responsibility to Place
- Living in Place
- Community
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Exploring Deep Ecology
To clarify earth-related values through discussion
about deep ecology and related topics; to discover how personal
values affect the way we view and treat the earth; to explore what
it means to take personal responsibility for the earth. |
| Topics covered
in the nine sessions include: |
- Deep Ecology
- Wild Nature
- Native American Wisdom
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The Gaia Hypothesis
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- The Universe Story
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Ecopsychology
- Simplicity
- Bioregionalism
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Globalization and its Critics
To understand the institutions, processes and effects of globalization;
to examine how personal choices affect globalization; to explore
a variety of possible future visions
and how they can be cultivated.
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| Topics covered
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- Globalization Overview
- Questioning Free Trade
- Transnational Corporations
- Food and the Global Marketplace
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- Globalization and the Environment
- Social Equity
- Shaping Opinion
- Homogenizagtion of Cultures
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