Green Learning
"Green Learning" embraces any learning experience involving the arts, ecology and sustainable living.
Continuing Studies at
Royal Roads University
Continuing Studies at Royal Roads University offer an amazing menu of inspired courses, workshops and special events that beautifully weave in and out of the Emily Carr Community Festival’s focus on the arts, ecology and sustainable community. From such offerings as Sustainable Urban Design (Apr 2), Permaculture by Design: How to Live Like We Plan on Staying (Apr 10), Place, Me and Sustainability (Apr 16), Intro to Bee-keeping (Apr 21), Connecting with Garry Oak Ecosystems (Apr 24), 50 Relatives (Apr 24), Planetize the Movement: Connecting Ecology, Social Justice and Cosmology with Drew Dellinger (May 1), Ecopsychology: Compassion the Size of a Planet (May 8), Stargazing (May 15), Introduction to Cob Building (May 29), The Secrets of Hatley Park Roses (June 12), you’ll find something delicious for every green learning taste.

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WestShore Centre for Learning and Training,
Sooke School District
With the establishment of the WestShore Teaching Garden at 2139 Sooke Road, WestShore Centre for Learning and Training has been working with local farmers, garden and health experts to develop a series of courses and workshops to educate youth and the community on growing food, nutrition and healthy living.

Hands-on opportunities to embody the learning and ‘get dirty’ are included in every offering. Come and meet a great community of farmers and garden experts and learn how you can ‘grow your own’.

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CANADIAN EARTH INSTITUTE

At the Canadian Earth Institute we take a fun, personally meaningful and inclusive approach to environmental awareness and protection. Why wait until tomorrow when we can create the world we want today?

We generate positive environmental change through a complimentary set of courses and community outreach activities. Our work is based on personal transformation, practical skills, cooperation and working with community for the benefit of our world.

Work with others in your community to learn environmentally-friendly, practical skills. For example, construct benches, ovens, or even houses using cob and other sustainable building practices; learn how to grow your own food in tune with nature (permaculture); or, find out how to set up systems for recycling greywater, rainwater harvesting and composting toilet.

Make the earth come alive with your hands in our Cob Art course. Not only will you learn to sculpt with this medium but also discover ways to create colourful possibilities by adding natural pigments to final plaster coats or installing a variety of salvaged mosaic pieces such as glass remnants, pebbles, shells. Cob is the most common and versatile building material and art medium on the planet. A humble formula of sand, straw and clay called COB is very durable and requires little upkeep. It won’t burn, bugs won’t eat it, and its dirt cheap. And that’s not all. COB is also non-toxic, creates no waste, and requires only a few basic tools, making it a great example of sustainable art sculptures and structures.

Our society can lead us to forget how smart, powerful and loving we are. Imagine what we can accomplish for the benefit of our earth if we free ourselves to enter into intelligent, humane thinking. CEI Transition Courses lead you through personal exploration to claim your intelligence, zest, lovingness, effective communication, leadership and cooperation.
CEI empowers people through engaging Discussion Circles on such topics as: Sustainable Systems at Work, Menu for the Future, Global Warming: Changing CO2urse, Voluntary Simplicity, Choices for Sustainable Living, Reconnecting with Earth, Discovering a Sense of Place, Healthy Children, Healthy Planet.

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