GreenChoices

Green living courses

If you want to learn to live a more green lifestyle there are several organisations which offer courses in topics such as solar heating, generating energy from the wind, low impact building, eco-friendly building materials, straw bale buildings and even how to make your own bio-diesel. The following offer courses on these and similar topics:

• Centre for Alternative Technology
• Low Impact Living Initiative
• Schumacher College is an international centre for ecological studies, set up to explore innovative forms of learning for sustainable living. It runs short (2-4 week) courses, taught by distinguished thinkers and scientists, on environmental issues and ethics, and an MSc in Holistic Science. Schumacher College focuses its attention on ecological economics and development issues; the links between philosophy, psychology and ecology; and the new understandings arising out of recent scientific discoveries.
• Institute for Earth Education - educational programmes that change people's view of our home, the planet earth, and the way they interact with it.
• The Findhorn Foundation College is part of the Findhorn Community in northern Scotland and provides 'education for inner growth and outer action' including permaculture design courses.