Ecoversity

Website: http://www.ecoversity.org/

Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Classification: non-profit educational center
Founded: 1999
Campus: Gardens, orchards, library, lecture hall, studio, summer kitchen, offices and outdoor classrooms, demonstrating sustainable technologies
Programs: A variety of classes from PV panels, to bee keeping to composting
Costs: Varies per class, starting at $25

 

General Summary and Comments:

Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, EcoVersity's 11-acre campus serves as a demonstration site and a community building center for the promotion of "hands-on" learning and sustainable living.
EcoVersity is an educational and community center offering a unique land-based and ethics informed curriculum in all aspects of sustainability, directed to regenerate the Earth and revitalize the spirit.
As part of its rich and diverse curriculum, EcoVersity holds Community Classes and workshops in permaculture, natural building, land arts, community activism, healthy living, renewable energy and more. EcoVersity also offers two certificate programs; one in Permaculture Design, and one in Earth Based Vocations.
EcoVersity is dedicated to serving the community, both by providing a place for public events and site-based projects and by inviting educators and professionals working in the world of ecological activism to be a part of campus life. Lectures and discussion groups, musical performances, festivals and many other ecological activities take place on campus.
EcoVersity was founded in 1999 by Dr. Frances Harwood, a co-founder of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. She envisioned a place where people would come to network themselves into the world of sustainability and ecological pioneering, and where life skills would be taught in a "hands-on" living classroom setting. Today EcoVersity is a destination for an increasing number of students and practitioners, who converge to participate in an ongoing ecological curriculum and knowledge exchange, cultivating an ever-deepening alignment between human culture and the living land

The richness of EcoVersity's programs comes from the richness of the community around us. Farmers, parents, professionals, ecological activists, gardeners, youngsters, elders and designers all converge at our campus, which serves as a gathering location, a destination where something is always on.
Our community is multi-faced, with dozens of instructors and hundreds of students. There are also our Core Faculty members, administration, Advisory Council and the Board of Directors. Together, we all celebrate the beautiful legacy of the vision left for us by our founder, Dr. Frances Harwood, and make her brilliant dream come true. Our human community is graced by presence of the great ecological community of the plants and animals that we care for and who reciprocate with wonderful returns of joy, beauty and wisdom.

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