Mindful U at Naropa University
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Displaying 5 items of Mindful U at Naropa University with the tag "sustainability".
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83.Travis Cox: Ecopsychology and Psychedelics
February 16th, 2022 | 58 mins 27 secs
ecopsychology, environmentalism, green living, psychedelic therapy, psychedelics, social change, sustainability, trauma healing
Ecopsychology is a field whose goal is to bridge our cultures' long-standing historical gulf between the psychological and the ecological to see the needs of the planet and the person as a continuum. Transpersonal ecopsychology is the evolving exploration expression and embodied practice of the inter-dependence of humans in the more than human world, which tends towards to the health balance and optimal well-being of all. A change in our internal landscapes might change our relationships with the land in a way that includes extending social ethics to the land and an examination of our loyalties, affections, and convictions.
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43. Michael Bauer: "The Discovery of Deep Community Resilience"
October 15th, 2018 | 39 mins 56 secs
ecopsychology, ecosystem, sustainability
If we can protect top-tier predators then we can protect large wilderness areas. The United States wilderness system, the national park system, and the national forest system–which are unparalleled globally–could help us build the room in our hearts for wilderness areas. And that's what really called to me. As I went into a career at Boulder County Parks and Open Space, I really started to notice and get more concerned about climate change. I realized that we can protect wilderness from mining and logging and overuse and create the cultural space in our hearts for that wilderness, but we can't protect it from climate change directly. It has to be a change in the hearts of people. So, that got me really paranoid.
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13. Scott Rodwin: Awareness of the Built Environment
February 13th, 2018 | 31 mins 48 secs
ada, architecture, green building, sustainability
We're asking questions about changing an ordinary classroom into something that is as wonderful and nourishing and sustainable as it can possibly be. How does it encourage a great learning environment? How does it become part of the beauty of the campus? How does it contribute to the sustainability of the campus? All these things get wrapped in. Sustainability is too often thought of as a technical overlay to other rules and requirements necessary for building. We don't want to look at it that way, but rather as the starting point–part of the holistic design. When someone says I need a thousand square feet for a classroom - we should be asking questions like "why do you need it? What are you trying to achieve? Who is going to be there? What experience should the students have in this classroom? Should there be a living wall in the classroom? Should there be flexible seating? What kind of indoor/outdoor connection are you looking for? What kind of natural daylight?" and so on. These are the sustainability aspects of our questioning, and the answers all go back into the holistic design of the built space.
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07. Travis Cox: Sustainability is Ecopsychology is Sustainability
December 5th, 2017 | 28 mins 48 secs
ecopsychology, environmentalism, green living, sustainability
Ecopsychology is a field whose goal is to bridge our cultures' long standing historical gulf between the psychological and the ecological to see the needs of the planet and the person as a continuum. Transpersonal ecopsychology is the evolving exploration expression and embodied practice of the inter-dependence of humans in the more than human world, which tends towards to the health balance and optimal well being of all. A change in our internal landscapes might change our relationships with the land in a way that includes extending social ethics to the land and an examination of our loyalties, affections, and convictions.
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04. Scott Rodwin: Green Building 101
October 24th, 2017 | 32 mins 23 secs
environmental science, environmental studies, green architecture, green building, sustainability
Scott Rodwin, Naropa University faculty teaching Building Design in the Environmental Department, will be talking about Green Building 101.