The media keeps telling us the future should be "greener". And indeed, our lifestyles are not "sustainable". We cannot go on living the way we do for a long time.

Explore your vision on how you want to develop your life and your environment. We will explore "Green Lifestyles" in an attractive mixture of fun exercises, presentations, and discussions.

REGISTRATION FORM

Course outline:

Facilitator: Helmut E Lubbers, BE MSocSc DipEcol, ecological psychologist

Payment: send cheque with registration slip to ecoglobe USA, cheque payable to ecoglobe USA, account Arnold Eilers,
2000 Leimert Blvd,
Oakland, CA 94602.

Any questions: email to oaklandworkshop@ecoglobe.org

Workshop Outline

REGISTRATION FORM

9.15 am Introduction

• A touch of leadership - (Warming-up exercise)

• An Orienting Parade of Human Needs - Freud, Maslow, and others on the development of the "self" and its basic needs. (presentation)

• Retrieving our past - Getting in touch with our personal experiences. There is no pressure to share or explain our experiences to the group. (exercise)

Morning Coffee Break (10.30 am)

• Time-discounting - The economics of discounting of present & future values, and environmental assets. (presentation & discussion)

• A Fun Speed Race - Experience and investigate speed-energy-power relationship. Prizes for the best speed-racer. (exercise, discussion & presentation)

Lunch break (12.00 am) (60 min.)

• The Words Juggler - Explore and discuss meanings and implications of "common" and environmental terminology. (exercise)

• Stone Age Economics - The "Environmental Footprint" of our ancestors. (presentation & discussion)

• ClayCon - A collaborative construction exercise

Afternoon Tea Break (2.30 pm)

• Creative visualisation - (exercise)

• Freedom of choice - ECHO Ecologic Chance - Human Options: Why do things happen? Do things just happen or do we make them happen? (discussion)

• A touch of breath - End-of-the-day exercise, workshop feedback. (exercise & discussion)

4.30 pm End of the Workshop

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• safeguard a beautiful and healthy world with sufficient space and resources for all beings

• maintain wise balances between human activity and nature

• translate environmental science into clear language, images and interactive models

• explain complex environmental and economic relationships

• promote a wise and sustainable relationship between the environment and the economy

• apply realistic, eco-logic information

• Exploring Green Lifestyles - a workshop that will change your mind! (See above).

• Environmental Motivation - what does it take to do something for the environment? (under preparation)

ecoglobe is politically neutral, since - at the end of the day - nature makes no distinction between left and right, poor or rich.

We see it as our task to provide neutral and realistic information about the environment. People can then make informed choices.

ecoglobe is a vision of a sustainable society and a platform for eco-logic information.