Millipede
Special Ecology courses
These courses for college students, graduates, private forest landowners,hunters, animal lovers, retirees,and professionals, are offered through correspondence or internet learning. Courses and workshops are taught by a faculty of leading ecological scientists, soil scientists, biologists, philosophers, and practitioners.
These courses incorporate total approaches, considering short and long-term impacts, top-down and bottom-up organization, and analysis and synthesis of whole contexts. The courses are based on a Process view (A. N. Whitehead 1920), Holism (Smuts 1926, Koestler 1958), a field concept (C. H. Waddington 1962), Self-organization (Francisco Varela 1982), and Reciprocally constrained construction (Russell D. Gray, 1988).
The courses are related to business concerns (such as production, architecture, transport and waste), as well as to concerns of living communities (including home placement, material and energy inputs and outputs, planning, and ecological design).
The courses include (course numbers range from 1 to 100 and refer only to groupings and not to degree of difficulty):
- 21. Business Ethics
- 22. Business Ecology / Future business
- 23. Industrial/corporate ecology (and Philosophy of)
- 24. Starting new Ecological Businesses
- 25. Ecological Economics
- 26. Ecology Nonprofits and NGOs
- 27. Legal Issues in Environmental Actions and Defense
- 31. Ecological Philosophy, Deep Ecology, Radical Ecology
- 32. Poetic Archaeology of the Flesh (chaos, ecology, and being)
- 33. Ecological Ethics
- 34. Ecological Psychology
- 35. Human Ecology / Social Ecology
- 36. Religions, Theology and Ecology
- 37. Thanatology: Ecology and Death
- 38. Literature and Ecology: Writings About the Earth as Home
- 41. Urban Ecology (new cities and old)
- 42. Ecological Architecture and Planning
- 43. Existential Basis for Architecture
- 44. Ecological Design of Built Environment
- 45. Engineering with an Ecological Perspective
- 46. Topopoetics: The Science of Place-Making
- 51. Ecosystem Medicine
- 52. Cultural Ecology (Holocosmological Framework)
- 53. Ecological Justice / Ecology and the Law
- 54. United Nations and Nation-building (Cultures, Peoples and Nations)
- 61. Environmental Literature
- 62. Ecopoesis (Poetry and ecology--New metaphors for civilization)
- 63. Personal Identity and Worldviews
- 65. Energy use, slavery, traps, and ecological limits
- 66. War and Ecology (Ecological Bases of Conflict and War)
- 67. Utopias, Entopias, and Eutopias
- 68. Intercultural Communications
- 81. Ecology as a Fundamental Science (Ecosystem Ecology)
- 82. Environmental Science
- 83. Sustainability, Diversity and Balance
- 84. Environment, Population, and Culture
- 85. Regional and Global Ecological Planning
- 86. Ecological Agriculture, Holistic Management, Permaculture
- 87. Wilderness (Ecology, mythology, actuality)
- 88. Ecological Pest Management, from aphids to bears and coyotes
- 89. Ecology of Domestic Animals, from pets to factory farms
- 90. Independent Study in Ecology
Please write for more information:
Educational Program, P.O. Box 1551, Tallevast, Florida 34270 email:ecologists@gpmi.us
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