Date & Time: Thursday, Nov 12 @ 6.30 PM
Where: Ryerson University, 55 Gould street, Student centre, SCC 115
Fee: Early bird - $5 until Sep 30, $7 after
We have created a civilization based on limited resources that are quickly disappearing. It’s not a question of whether our resources will run out, rather the question is when will they run out. In response to this crisis we have entered into a new era of “green” businesses, “green” products, “green” economies and “green” energy. Environmental protection is now on the agenda at UN conferences and the G8 forum alike. Even Hollywood is showing signs of environmental consciousness: last year Wall-e hit the top of the box office, bringing its forward-looking narrative of ‘earth scare’ to billions of viewers worldwide.
Join us this November for an interactive workshop with Devamrita Swami. In this workshop, Devamrita Swami will explain how our lifestyle is a reflection of our consciousness—a materialistic frame of mind leads to an exploitative mentality, and thus a tendency to consume more than necessary, which ultimately leads an unsustainable lifestyle and a disturbed environment. Even if the whole world goes green, if we are unable to transform this consciousness of overconsumption, we will be faced with the same global crises again and again. We must alter this exploitative mentality.
Devamrita Swami is a monk, author and Yale graduate. He is the founder of Institute of Sustainability in New Zealand, and travels around the world raising environmental awareness through his workshops. He is eager to show us how to avert global environmental crises using spiritual techniques.
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