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Resources for Teaching EcoMind

Small Planet Resources for Teaching EcoMind

Handouts

What We Say Matters: The Power of Framing with an EcoMind

Lappe THE POWER OF FRAME mechanical vs ecological 2011 handout.pdf

In its clear table format, What We Say Matters illustrates the necessary switch from a mechanical-moralistic frame to an ecological-empirical-empowering frame.

Upping Our Civil Courage

Upping Our Civil Courage.pdf

Don't read this book alone! Upping Our Civil Courage provides questions to explore with others while reading EcoMind.

Thought Traps for the EcoMind

ThoughtTrapsForTheEcoMind.pdf

A single page handout designed to introduce the seven major thought traps-- and their solutions-- highlighted in EcoMind

Lexicon for the EcoMind

LexiconForTheEcoMind.pdf

Lexicon for the EcoMind is designed to help develop one's own EcoMind, with a clear explanation of the necessary shifts in our mental framing.

Slideshows and Speeches

EcoMind Slideshow

SlideShowEcoMindWebsite.ppt

A PowerPoint presentation of EcoMind's main themes, examples, and solutions.

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Surprising Facts

Ninety percent of Americans make less in real dollars than they did in 1973 – on average $4,000 less. The wealthiest 400 Americans now control more wealth than half the world’s people.

Worldwide, more people are members of cooperatives than own shares in publicly traded companies. Cooperatives provide a fifth more jobs than do global corporations.

More than a third of both the world’s grain and fish catch now go to feed livestock, which return to us only a fraction of the nutrients.

If the whole world adopted sustainable farming practices, production could increase by over 50 percent.

In three decades agricultural output per person has climbed by one fifth worldwide, but in just the last three years over 100 million more people suffer from hunger—reaching a total of nearly a billion.

An MRI study of people competing vs. cooperating found that cooperating stimulates the same parts of our brain as does eating chocolate!

America emits twice the carbon per person that Europe does. But think what’s possible: California emits 20 percent less carbon per dollar GDP than Germany; and it gets a quarter of its electricity from renewables!

In Washington DC, more than two dozen lobbyists push mainly corporate interests for every one representative American citizens have elected to protect our interests.

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