Summary. This document provides access to resources and information on sustainability education workshops and institutes.
- Ancient Earth School of Natural Building
- Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). A membership-based association of colleges and universities working to advance sustainability in higher education in the US and Canada.
- BigGreenSummer.com – Big Green Summer grew out of an informal internship program started in 1998 at Surya Nagar Farm (Iowa and Hawaii – http://www.solarfarm.com) and in 2000 at Abundance Ecovillage (Iowa – http://www.abundance-ecovillage.com) that has served hundreds of students. This program was developed and directed by Big Green Summer founders Lonnie and Valerie Gamble.
- Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysts – “Catalysts are substances which speed up the conversion of raw materials to useful products. The action of a catalyst is termed “catalysis” and the manufacturing process that uses a catalyst is termed a “catalytic process”. Many everyday products are manufactured using catalytic processes, including gasoline, detergents, synthetic fibers and pharmaceutical drugs. The vision of the CEBC is to make available to industry “sustainable” manufacturing processes–in other words, improved processes that minimize their “environmental footprint” while remaining profitable.” More…
- Consumer Consequences. Presented by Public Radio, this interactive online “game” helps consumers calculate their environmental footprint.
- Evergreen.edu – “The Evergreen State College will be a laboratory for sustainability as demonstrated in our operations, curriculum, and quality of life for employees and students. We will nurture values and practical skills that motivate a lifetime commitment to a sustainable, intergenerationally just way of living on a healthy planet.”
- RenewFairfield.com – Online encyclopedia of resources and information. “This web site was begun as a collaborative project in the fall of 2006 by the students of a solar energy course (titled”The Energy Basis of Man and Nature“), which is part of the four-year Sustainable Living Program at Maharishi University of Management.”
- Rocky Mountain Institute
- Root Systems Institute. Root Systems Institute (RSI) seeks to educate, empower, and inspire people to make sustainable choices that are in alignment with their inner purpose and which support the health of our communities and the planet.
- SolarFarm.com – “Surya Nagar is Sanskrit for “Home of the Sun”, and the mission of Surya Nagar is to implement and teach how man can create a life based on solar energy. We operate a farm, offer internships, host visitors, and offer educational programs such permaculture design certificate courses.”
- Solar Living Institute.
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