MODELS:
The idea for an affordable and ecological college in Canada is inspired by several different models from around the world:
| http://new-space.mahost.org/ | The
New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education (New SPACE) is
a new anti-capitalist educational project dedicated to developing
and advancing ideas for liberatory social change. Together with the new movements for global justice, we believe that "another world is possible" -- a world free from the domination of capital and free for the flowering of human powers and talents.We seek, though our classes and other activities, to create an environment in which youth, working people from diverse backgrounds, intellectuals, and activists can dialogue and collaborate in order to make sense of, and transform, our world. New York City November 8, 2004 |
| SCHUMACER
COLLEGE: Schumacher College is a well-recognised international center for ecological studies, founded in 1991 on the conviction that a new vision is needed for society, its values and its relationship to the earth. |
http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/ |
| http://www.cat.org.uk | CENTER
FOR ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY: The Center for Alternative Technology (CAT) is an environmental charity in Wales, formed over 25 years ago, with the intent of demonstrating ways in which people, nature and technology can live together successfully.As well as offering individual courses, in combination with the University of East London (UEL), CAT is offering a joint programme of study and practical activity leading to an MSc degree, examining the relationship between human beings and the environment and in particular offers an ecological perspective on building. |
| COLLEGE
OF THE ATLANTIC The College of the Atlantic is a liberal arts university in Maine, United States, with an academic program designed to develop an ecological perspective through the understanding of social, biological and technological inter-relationships. |
http://www.coa.edu |
| http://www.workingcolleges.org | WORKING
COLLEGES Working Colleges provide an innovative example of self-financing. Students work at the university (and university businesses) in exchange for tuition costs. |
| ECOVERSITY EcoVersity was founded in 1999 by a team of educators, ecologists, anthropologists, and activists who gathered together to design a school and campus for people seeking innovation and practical approaches to learning from the land. They offer a Certificate in Earth-based Vocations with the hallmark of hands-on experiential learning. |
http://www.ecoversity.org |
http://www.trentu.ca |
Trent University offers a course in Bioregionalism...worth checking out. |
| The Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University offers undergraduate as well as a Masters and PhD program in environmental studies and the faculty contains many well known authors/academics/activists (some of which you may want to consider inviting to the meeting) | http://www.yorku.ca/fes |
| http://www.social-ecology.org/ | the
institute for social ecology in vermont. "popular education for
a free society." |
| Inspiring setup and courses offered at Bija Vidyapeeth - The International College for Sustainable Living in India | http://www.vshiva.net/bijavidyapeeth/ |
| http://www.goddard.edu/ | The Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont is an interesting model. Their model is based on Goddard, a small progressive college also in Vermont. |
| Planet
Organic concentrates on building skills which allow people to work
with each other to live gently on the earth. It's curriculem includes
permaculture, workshop fascilitation, community dynamics, deep ecology, organic gardening. These simple day to day how to live skills are what are lacking in our current educational system. |
http://www.planetorganic.org.nz/index.htm |
