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Lecture Topics
Creating a Healthy World: Ecological Ways of Living
Learn about pathways to prosperity rooted in local economies and ecologies. Ecologically healthy cottage industries, local food networks, natural building and regional energy systems.
Health and Longevity: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves
Our diets, our jobs, our lifestyles and the water we drink all directly shape how healthy we are and our quality of life. A holistic view of health that connects peoples' personal wellbeing directly with the health of their local landscapes and environment.
Pollution and You: The True Costs of the Military/Industrial Complex
An expose of toxics in the US. Find out about corporate and government contaminated zones in your neighborhood. How the products you buy and services you use contribute to contamination and health problems.
Ecological Politics, Transforming World Views
How to overthrow the corporate oligarchy by creating more regional, local and self-reliance. In a true democracy we will ensure public welfare before private profits and not enable industry to pollute the water we drink and the air we breathe in order to give us jobs.
Decadence vs. Abundance: A Brief Ecological History of America and the World
Come learn what history has taught us about how to create ecological economies and increase natural capital. Democratic economies make more dollars and sense for the people. By putting public welfare before private profits we can create a more sound and sustainable economic structure for our society.
Regenerating Urban Centers: Bringing in Nature
Ways to bring clean air, water and soil back into city centers and urban landscapes. Creating green pathways for pedestrians and cyclists. Start by removing pavement from streams and abandoned areas and reforesting them. Create market areas with limited vehicle access. Then create corridors that connect them to green belts outside the city. Shorten the distance of transmission of goods and services by increasing local production in the city and surrounding areas.
Ecological Literacy vs. Environmental Education
We need a paradigm shift in our worldview. Schools need to help reconnect humanity with their proper role as stewards and caretakers of planet earth. We need to reconnect ourselves, our schools, our children and our whole philosophy of education to our responsibilities for the well being of each other and the entire web of life.
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