Ecopsychology, Depth Psychology, and the Environment

• Pacifica Living Green: Pacifica could be a model of a sustainable environment. By knowing about sustainability and participating in sustainability, students are more likely to take these ideas and practices to their home communities.






• Continue taking a Leadership role in making our campus’ Green
• Green council, reporting to the President and Board
• Carbon neutral school



• Shuttle from airport to reduce the number of cars at Ladera campus
• Double pane glass
• Reduce environmental impact
• Gray H2O
• Solar power
• Sustainable and edible landscaping
• Retrofitting dorms
• Green credits


• For students in residence: More attention to the campus environment when students are in session - including curriculum and practicum:



• Living green; buildings, soil, perma culture, edible landscape, organic garden
• Expansion in all programs of eco-psychological curriculum (eco-psychology, eco-therapy, ecology, eco-mythology)
• Opportunity to work in our garden or at other organic sites
• Anima Mundi: develop council practices of listening to the land/campus and what it wants. Include earth ritual and drumming
• Art and eco-therapy


• Public Outreach - A website on eco-psychology - Send out a letter to all in the Pacifica Community. Anyone interested in becoming part of a group interested in Ecopsychology can sign up on the website:



• This site would be organically grown; grown in a topsy-turvy, self-regulating fashion



• Not a well manicured static site, but a dynamic interactive one
• Providing a networking process, where people could open up topics and branch out
• Maintained by people's participation providing self-cleansing dynamics
• Blog or email groups on/off Pacifica’s website (via a link)



• Sharing thoughts and dreams within the eco-psych arena dreams and stories of the earth
• Activism and introduction
• Discussion



• anthropocentrism
• consumerism


• Links to ecology websites and eco-therapists
• A call for articles/papers that can be posted on the website


• Pacifica Conferenceswith ample discussion among interest groups



• Sponsoring lectures
• Online classes
• Workshops and conferences in practical and psychological, on green living, ecology, eco-psychology and related areas

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