Oxygen Collective Collaborates with CIIS

During the first week of August the Oxygen Collective is collaborating with the California Institute of Integral Studies and Boone?s Farm to bring a post graduate field course from the SF Bay Area to the Siskiyou Mountains. The O2 crew is providing transportation and guest instruction for a new course titled The Sixth Mass Extinction and Applied Deep Ecology. Twenty students are immersing in an intensive, hands-on exploration of permaculture, philosophy, natural building, ecology and animal husbandry at Boone?s Farm in the Little Applegate Valley.

Boone?s Farm operates the Siskiyou Crest Organic Goat Dairy, runs a revolving internship program and hosts many kinds of educational and community building events. Recent PhD graduate Blair Carter is coordinating this dynamic course with CIIS professor David Ulansey. Ulansey teaches alluring courses on philosophy and religion, and is a well-published author and speaker raising the alarm about the human generated mass extinction event now under way. He will be facilitating engaging evening discussions about the causes, implications and ethics surrounding our growing understanding of this emerging extinction event. He operates the web?s leading site of news about the sixth mass extinction at www.well.com/user/davidu/extinction.html.