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Courses at Universities

Courses at Berkeley: Spring 2007

EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING PROGRAM
Overview: The Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP) is a collaborative interdisciplinary course taught throughout the University of California system. The course hosts lectures by renowned educators, authors, and thinkers. ESLP is designed to facilitate dialogue among students, faculty, staff, administration, and community throughout the UC system. ESLP encourages thoughtful exploration, reflection, and analysis, of principles of sustainability. Students participate in Action Research Teams (ART) in partnership with community members, guest lecturers, faculty, and administration. ART groups focus on campus issues such as sustainable transportation, purchasing, energy consumption and reduction, waste reduction and prevention, and green building. For further information please consult the syllabus and/or the course website at www.eslp.net .

Courses at Meritt: Spring 2007

starting:Saturday, March 17; Cycles of Change presents an opportunity for to take part in exciting bicycle adventures while learning more about the Bay Area – a unique field studies course offered through Merritt College.

Though a series of bicycle-based adventures, students will deepen their understanding of the East Bay’s extraordinary living systems, discovering how the land and its peoples have shaped each other over the past 200 years. In nine all-day field trips we travel ancient pathways, follow lost rivers, and learn the hidden stories within the city while visiting some of our local area’s most spectacular destinations. Through field studies, oral histories and unique source materials, studies of geography, ecology, hydrology, ethnobotany and cultural history will be woven together within a unifying context, the place which we call home.

You must know how to ride a bike, but routes are easy and no special cycling ability is needed….all rides meet at BART stations and tune-ups/loaner bikes are available.

Sign up by going to www.merritt.edu ; the course title is

Cycles of Land Use, #048-OO in the Landscape Horticulture Department. Questions? E-mail guide/instructor Grey Kolevzon

Certification Courses

  • Class: “Plant based regenerative design systems.”
    Starts: Thursday Nov. 2nd @ 3-6pm and continues every other weekend for four full weekend
    Learn to create biological systems to regenerate people and the planet. We have ten students signed up so far and and need at least eight more to make it a go. So for those of you that wanted to take it but haven’t signed up yet, Carpe Diem! Action packed field trips, hands on projects and guest presenters. Class intensives that cover bodyshed, foodshed, watershed and airshed. To enroll online go to peralta.cc.ca.us, class code is M1079 and its listed under the horticulture department at Merritt College.