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Gaia University
Gaia University offers a unique approach to higher learning by offering students (called Associates) access to accredited Bachelors and Masters degrees and Graduate Diplomas whilst the Associate is actively engaged in self and planetary transformation. Linking your ideals with self-directed practical experience, you act as a world changer, by working for local and global sustainability and regeneration, justice and peace.
Our self-directed action learning methodology enables you to study locally, at work or on project, in your own language, supported by Gaia University's Regional Organizers, and a worldwide network of learning providers, tutors and mentors.
No longer do you have to choose between earning a living and studying. With action learning your work and your projects become your places of study.
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Youth Journalist Shadia Wood Takes on Climate Change
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talking, walking, drinking coffee, and urgent meetings rang on in the
background as youth from all over the world sat in a circle on a floor. It
was the United Nations Climate Negotiations. It was Denmark. It was cold.
As youth journalists, we warmed ourselves with the stories from movements
we were a part of in India, Kenya, Singapore, Australia, Sweden,
Argentina, the US and the Antarctic. We represented all seven continents
and we were reporting on survival.
I’m a second year
associate at Gaia University and I founded Project Survival
Media one year ago today. These were the things I knew: young
people all over the world are absolutely terrified about the world we are
inheriting; there is not one thing that climate change leaves un-touched;
and so many youth are passionate about fighting climate change.
Youth are creative, funny, and inspiring. When there is vision and
guidance, youth can coordinate change in unfathomable
ways.
Read more
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Grifen Hope Designs for Resilience in Post-earthquake Chile
 All
is well in Chile, six months out from the mega-quake. With millions
currently affected by the flooding in Pakistan, we encounter a vivid
reminder that not only have we fared well here, but that we are also
uniquely positioned to play a role in preparing people for emergence. Here
at our budding center for the great
reskilling,
La Ecoscuela El
Manzano, we have been doing our best to turn crises into
opportunity. Thousands of Chileans and others from around the world are
listening to the story of hope that we are
weaving.
With the help of Gaia
University, the Artists Project
Earth, the Permaculture
Research Institute, the Hepburn
Relocalisation Network and many others, we are aiming to build
long-term resilience in preparation for the future effects of natural
disaster and economic, climate, and energy disruption as or before
seemingly inevitable discontinuity occurs. Our intention is to create a
world-class center offering transformative action learning pathways that
equip people and communities for sustainability. This living university
will soon be inaugurated as Gaia University’s first Latin American
regional center, ‘Gaia
Chile’.
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Kyle Thiermann Campaigns for Economic and Environmental Awareness
I
feel like a baby kangaroo tucked away in a pouch, gaining the
nourishment I need to spring out into the world. It’s my second year as a
Gaia University bachelor’s associate and I’m currently developing a
documentary video which will track a product sold in the US back to its
manufacture in Sri Lanka. The goal of the project is to show people the
power they have to create change – every day – by raising their
consciousness about the geographical origin of the products they buy and
the people who make them. I’m just days away from heading to Sri Lanka
as I write this!
I’ve
spent the last few months developing my new website, kylethiermann.com,
where people will be able to follow my adventure in Sri Lanka as it
unfolds. I recently had the opportunity to release this site publicly
during a speech I gave in San Francisco at the Peter Benchley Awards.
Peter Benchley is the guy who wrote Jaws. Before he died he created a
foundation dedicated to ocean activism. I received the Peter Benchley
Youth Award for my campaign, Claim Your Change.
Over 350 of the top ocean activists were at this event so, as you might
imagine, I was about ready to spontaneously combust into flames with
excitement when I got on stage. It was a perfect opportunity for me to
highlight my Sri Lanka project and point people to my new site.
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