[Dialogue] Resources for Education in Sustainable Living

Janice Ulangca aulangca at stny.rr.com
Wed Feb 27 07:58:22 PST 2013


Randy - I would recommend resources from 2 groups that are now global.  You can google both.

1)  Pachamama Alliance. One particular resource they've developed:  A fine one-day Symposium event called "Awakening the Dreamer - Changing the Dream".  It has great short DVD segments, including powerful images and testimonies from famous experts, re sustainable environment.  There's time for discussion and good exercises in between.  You can purchase the DVD, and there are also networks of facilitators across the country who will pay their own expenses & come gratis to facilitate.
2)  The Transitions movement.  It was local Chicago Transitions groups that ICA worked with on Accelerate 77, and national training/planning meetings have been held at 4750.

I know a little more about both - let me know if more needed.  Starting an ecumenical Lenten series for our community tonight -  Journey Inward - Journey Outward.  Connection between prayer & inner life with effective action on issues we care about, and community to support us.

Hastily,
Janice Ulangca
 



----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paula Philbrook 
  To: Colleague Dialogue 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:34 AM
  Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Resources for Education in Sustainable Living


  I know of at least 2 programs that are like to AMERICORPS


  Food Corps
  https://foodcorps.org/
  Conservation Corps
  http://www.usaconservation.org/?gclid=CJbyw9DM1rUCFYpDMgoddhoAog


  They both have "education components".


  Paula


  On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Sunny Walker <sunwalker at comcast.net> wrote:

    There is a national environmental education group and we have a local one here in Denver. Bug me in about a week and I’ll have time to find and post that information. Jim Slotta may also have it (he’s out of town until next week).



    From: dialogue-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net [mailto:dialogue-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of R Williams
    Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:06 AM
    To: Order Ecumenical Community; Colleague Dialogue
    Subject: [Dialogue] Resources for Education in Sustainable Living



    Colleagues,



    In our local community a local citizens cadre of which I am a part is promoting grassroots initiatives in sustainable living.  Our major strategy is citizen education, not initially in the "what" or "how" of sustainable living, but in "why" it matters.  Our theory is that many local people don't do simple things like recycle, conserve water, etc. because they do not understand the environmental, social and economic benefits to themselves and the communty at large of doing so.  Therefore we want to evoke changes of hearts and minds which will lead eventually to sustainable life styles.  This is what we mean by education.



    Not all of our educational ventures will be classroom-based, but some will.  My purpose in coming to you is to ask if you would share educational resources that you may know of--curricula, books, articles, service-learning approaches, web links, videos, etc.--anything that you would recommend for a venture like this.



    If you don't wish to put what you have to offer on the listserv, please respond to me directly at rcwmbw at yahoo.com.



    With appreciation,

    Randy







    "The sustainability revolution is nothing less than a rethinking and remaking of our role in the natural world."

                                                                                                                                                  -David Orr


    _______________________________________________
    Dialogue mailing list
    Dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net
    http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net







  -- 

  Paula  

  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
  Melody Beattie


------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  _______________________________________________
  Dialogue mailing list
  Dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net
  http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.wedgeblade.net/pipermail/dialogue-wedgeblade.net/attachments/20130227/dbd31678/attachment.html>


More information about the Dialogue mailing list