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ecoglobe Sustainability workshop "Exploring Green Lifestyles"
Exploring Green Lifestyles a workshop that will change your mind! 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. So - what do we do about it? 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. Course outline: see next column Facilitator: Helmut E Lubbers, BE MSocSc DipEcol, ecological psychologist When: Saturday, August 25, 2001, 9.15 am - 4.30 pm. Where: ecoglobe USA, Oakland, Cal. Number of Participants: max. 12 Requirement: an open mind Registration: before July 31, 2001. Cost: US$150 Included: Course materials, lunch, and refreshments. Payment: send cheque with registration slip to ecoglobe USA, cheque payable to ecoglobe USA, account Arnold Eilers, 2000 Leimert Blvd, Oakland, CA 94602 For flyer with registration slip: email to , or download flyer as PDF file oakl1825.pdf, as Word file oakl1825.doc, or as Rich Text File oakl1825.rtf (all in US letter size).	Workshop Outline ++ 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 show or to 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 ++
*"Exploring Green Lifestyles" - an ecoglobe* workshop**
Registration Form: *Exploring Green Lifestyles* Name: ____________________________ Address: _________________________ Phone: home ______________________ Phone: work ______________________ Email: ____________________________ Please find enclosed: Registration fee: US$150 Donation: ______________________ Total: __________________________ Please make cheques payable to and send to ecoglobe USA, account Arnold Eilers, 2000 Leimert Blvd, Oakland, CA 94602	ecoglobe Environmental Motivation ecoglobe Australia & South Pacific: ecology discovery foundation new zealand (charitable trust), Box 24184, Wellington, NZ, Tel. +64 4 3843269, Fax +64 4 3898922 ecoglobe Europe: 52 Bd. de Saint-Georges, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland, Tel. +41 22 3209761 ecoglobe North America: 2000 Leimert Blvd, Oakland, CA 94602, USA, Phone (++1) (510) 3367089 ecoglobe Middle and South America, Africa, Asia, Islamic World, China, Japan: to be established, interested parties email to or write to P.O. Box 24184, Wellington, New Zealand Email: inquiries Web site: www.ecoglobe.org *ecology discovery foundation* Ž ecoglobe is a registered trademark Flyer: oakl1825.doc
*"Exploring Green Lifestyles" - an ecoglobe* workshop**
the ecoglobe vision: # 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 *ecoglobe courses:* Exploring Green Lifestyles - a workshop that will change your mind! Environmental Motivation - what does it take to do something for the environment?(under preparation) our principles: 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.*	ecoglobe Exploring Green Lifestyles a workshop that will change your mind! ecology discovery foundation committed to realistic environmental information and education politically neutral This brochure in a different format
1999-2001 ecology discovery foundation new zealand (charitable trust), P.O. Box 24184, Wellington, New Zealand, Tel. +64 4 3843269, Fax +64 4 3898922 52 Bd. de St. Georges, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland, Tel. +41 22 3209761 ecoglobe USA 2000 Leimert Blvd. Oakland, CA 94602, Phone (510) 3367089
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