Ecology and Human Consciousness
(IPM 543)

Time: TBA
 

Facilitated by
Patricia Siemen, OP, JD, MA, Public Affairs; MA, Culture & Spirituality
Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton, MA, Environmental Studies
Joe A. Iannone, Ph.D.

This course explores the relationship between the development of human consciousness and current ecological trends and crises.  The evolution of worldviews will be explored and social and ecological analysis will be used to identify contemporary critical ecological issues.  Ecologically sustainable alternatives and practices will be presented.  Educators will explore ways to incorporate these concepts into their respective disciplines.

Location
Sessions will be held at St. Thomas University, 16400 NW 32^nd Avenue, Miami, Florida.  Room TBA. 

Link to CourseSyllabus

Required Texts: (Read those in Blue before start of class, Friday, Feb 11, 2005)
1 -Berry, Thomas.  The Great Work. Bell Tower, 1999
2 -Earth Charter Commission.  The Earth Charter: Values & Principles for a Sustainable Future. Website: http://www.earthcharter.org.
3 -Hartmann, Thom.  The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal and Global Transformation.  Harmony Books, New York, 1999.
4 -Macy, Joanna.  Coming Back to Life. (To be read throughout the course of the class)
5 -Uhl, Christopher.  Developing Ecological Consciousness: Path to a Sustainable World.  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD, 2003.

Supplemental Readings:

Glendinning, Chellis.  My Name is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization.  Shambhala Press, 1994.
Hubbard, Barbara Max.  Conscious Evolution:  Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential. New World Library, Novato, CA, 1998.
Margulis, Lynn, and Sagan, Dorien. Microcosmos. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997.
Seed, John and  Macy, Joanna.  Thinking Like a Mountain.  New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, 1988.
Swimme, Brian.  Hidden Heart of the Cosmos. Orbis Books, New York, 1996.
The WorldWatch Institute.  State of the World 2004.  W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2004.
Zohar, Danah.  The Quantum Self: Human Nature and Consciousness Defined by the New Physics.
Quill/William Morrow: New York, 1990.