Opening Keynote Address, Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health, and Wild Vitality - A National Confluence: November 05, 2019, Sedona, AZ.

Healing by the Earth is medicine, a verb, not a noun and is healing.

Reciprocal Healing: Fostering Kinship and Reciprocity with Robin Wall Kimmerer

On Saturday, June 1st, 2013 Presidio Graduate School graduated approximately 70 new MBAs and MPAs in sustainable management from the Herbst in San Francisco, CA. In this clip, Presidio Board Chair Steven Swig discusses the future of sustainability.

Financing the Energy Frontier for Anchorage | PGS Capstone Showcase Fall 2019

From the December 2019 Capstone Showcase, this team of Presidians assessed a green investment bank model as a means to address the Municipality of Anchorage’s climate goals and analyzed several possible legal structures, leveraging multi-sector partnerships. Presented by Melanie Lucas-Conwell (MBA), Sarah Nelson (MBA), and Monica Pandele (MBA, MPA). About Presidio Graduate School: PGS is an accredited, nonprofit graduate school founded in 2003, offering several unique degree programs — three MBAs, the only sustainable MPA, and one of the only Dual MBA/MPAs — as well as several certificates, all taught with our systems-thinking methodology at the core. The premise we adhere to is that real change happens at the intersection between private enterprise and the public sector, and across commerce, and the common good. Learn more about PGS, our mission, and our programs at presidio.edu or call us at 415-561-6555.

The Call of the Mountain: Arne Naess and the Deep Ecology Movement :

Director: Jan van Boeckel | Producer: Karin van der Molen/Pat van Boeckel

Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 1997 | Story Teller's Country: Netherlands

Tags: Ecology, Environment, Global, Spiritual Awareness

Arne Dekke Eide Næss was a Norwegian philosopher who coined the term "deep ecology" and was an important intellectual and inspirational figure within the environmental movement of the late twentieth century. Næss cited Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring as being a key influence in his vision of deep ecology.(Foundation for Deep Ecology here).

This short video explains the Land Ethic, which is an environmental philosophy developed by Aldo Leopold.  It explains the philosophical foundations of the Land Ethic and how it differs from Deep Ecology.  Thanks for the GCSC Commodore production team for helping produce this video.  Aldo Leopold is the author of A Sand County Almanac.  He is author of the first textbook on wildlife management. 

This is a five-minute video introducing the difference between deep ecology and shallow ecology in Environmental Ethics. It covers the basic principles of deep ecology including the need for a radical shift in our attitude toward the natural environment. The eight principles of deep ecology are enumerated and clear. 

Thank you to Commodore Productions at Gulf Coast State College for invaluable help in producing this video.

"To be in your element you have to love it."

In Finding Your Element, author and educator, Sir Ken Robinson, offers viewers a guide to finding and being in their element. He provides basic principles and tools to help guide them to do the work they enjoy with a sense of contentment and purpose. He believes that you can thoughtfully and strategically make changes in your personal and professional life as you Find Your Element.

Produced by Michael Rose for American Public Television

How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World.

Can Aboriginal perspectives provide us the paradigm shift we need now? As an indigenous person, University Senior Lecturer Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions. 

Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne.  

We all have a common story. We are moving toward a related way of being. 

The inaugural States of Change Learning Festival opens with award-winning author and thinker Tyson Yunkaporta. We're also joined by Angie Tangaere!  

We’re accustomed to a certain way of thinking. We want the world to be simple, but we talk about it in complicated ways. Indigenous thinking is different. It knows the world is complex and finds deep ways to communicate this knowledge through pictures, carving, stories. What happens if we bring an Indigenous perspective to the big picture - to history, education, money, power? Can we, in fact, have proper concepts of sustainable life without Indigenous knowledge?

Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne.

Jul 12, 2020

COVID19 is a wake up call. Educating ourselves is paramount and taking time to learn of First Peoples relationship to the land.  Our mothers first and most important teachers that carry the values that act as foundation for life.