Avoid burnout, explore new stress-relievers, learn about the social context of a healthy and sustainable livlihood. This branch is meant to supplement our policy, science, and organizing work with a fresh outlook on the clean energy movement.
Workshop, Speaker
Living a low carbon lifestyle, participatory democracy, and the precautionary principle, Karen Cairns Sat 9-10:20 Squires 342
Free Yoga, Victoria Cederle Sat & Sun 9-10:20
- The way you approach your mat is often then way you approach events in your life.
- Saturday AM is in Squires Brush Mountain B and Sunday AM is on Drillfield
Conscious Climate Change: The psychology of sustainability, Michael Blackwell, Future Generations Sat 10:40-12 McBryde 126
- How we see the world changes how we live in and care for the world. At the root of the disruption of earth’s ecosystems are patterns of disruption in the human mind and body. Connection to the earth and to people is an essential form of nutrition. This participatory workshop will explore the healing effects of systematic, culturally facilitated exposure to nature.
Self Actualization and Sustainability, Jackie Pontious, Community Housing Partners Sat 10:40-12:00 Squires 234
- Usually by the time we are finishing our college degrees and figuring out our next steps we start are asking ourselves, “What is my purpose? What do I want to do with my life?” This workshop will provide you with tools to take an inventory of yourself, your passions and your skills and translate those qualities in to tools to help identify and pursue your career as a young professional. This workshop will challenge you to take those questions a step further and ask yourself, “Why am I here and how do I get paid to do it?”
How to start your own chapter of New Forest Earth, Andon Zebal, New Forest Earth Sat 1:20-2:40 & Sun 9-10:20 McBryde 134 & McBryde 126
- New Forest Earth helps indigenous cooperatives preserve their cultures and their forests by providing a source of income that requires that they sacrifice neither. In this workshop, you’ll learn how YOU can be the connection between an amazon hunter gatherer tribe and your college campus.
Gandhi, Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence Sat 1:20-2:40 Squires 342
- A brief historical development of Mahatma Gandhi and Nonviolence as a social political tool for change and the use and development of civil disobedience in contemporary social movement . Followed by a discussion of civil disobedience at as tool for environmental protection and defense.
Deepening Our Connections, Eric Blevins, Mountain Justice Sat 1:20-2:40 Squires 232
- This is a group discussion examining the ways we are connected to the earth, each other, life, culture and spirit. We will discuss things that divide us, such as racism, sexism, anthropocentrism, classism and egocentrism; as well as frameworks designed to overcome these divisions and connect us more deeply, such as deep ecology, ecofeminism, social ecology, environmental justice and mysticism.
Gandhi, Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence (JMU) Sat 1:20-2:40 Squires 342
- A brief historical development of Mahatma Gandhi and Nonviolence as a social political tool for change and the use and development of civil disobdience in contemporary social movement . Followed by a discussion of civil disobedience at as tool for evironmental protection and defense.
Hula-Hooping 101, Liza Dobson Sat 3-4:20 Squires Brush Mountain A (3rd floor)
Start an Oxfam chapter at your school, Chris Mortweet, Oxfam at Virginia Tech Sat 3-4:20 McBryde 202
The Nature of Leadership, Michael Blackwell Sat 3-4:20 McBryde 134
- Ideas from “Cognitive Climate Change” will taught in a hands-on, practice oriented workshop. Basic nature-connection skills of attention, perception, place-based knowing, play, community, mindfulness – and their efficacy in leadership – will be shared and co-created. Dress to be outside.
Tree Identification on the VT campus (Dendrology 101), Nick Evers (date/time TBA)
Open Discussions
