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Fritjof Capra is a featured faculty member for these upcoming Center for Ecoliteracy seminars:
Schooling for Sustainability: Making Teaching and Learning Come Alive
June 23–25, 2010: Berkeley, California
This seminar builds on the Center for Ecoliteracy's acclaimed book Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability. It is designed to give participants ideas, resources, and inspiration that they can take home to make teaching more engaging, effective, and memorable. The seminar includes presentations and demonstrations by Fritjof and other leaders in sustainability education, exposure to inspiring projects, hands-on practice with techniques that work, and reflective conversations with seminar faculty and fellow educators.
Sustainability Education: Connecting Art, Science, and Design
August 16–18, 2010: Berkeley, California
Art and science are powerful, complementary means of communicating an understanding of nature. Many of today's most cutting-edge innovations in design (from gecko-inspired adhesives to energy-efficient buildings modeled after termite mounds) have been derived from nature, giving rise to a new field called biomimicry. Fritjof joins educators and artists from the Center for Ecoliteracy, California Academy of Sciences, de Young Museum, Biomimicry Institute, and River of Words to ask: How can we help students understand the intersections of art, science, and design? To combine art and science in order to better express humans’ relationship with nature? To design more sustainable societies through an understanding of nature?