(EMAILWIRE.COM, February 07, 2002 ) At the Insititute of Global Education, a special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, for Earth Day and Earth Year April 22, 2002-2003, a group of individuals and not-for-profit organizations have established a
cooperative scholarship program. Its purpose is to make a unique, intercultural, Natural Systems Thinking Process (NSTP) readily available to the public.

NSTP enables people to increase personal and environmental wellness through thoughtful
contacts with natural systems within and around them.

The coalition has formed because its members deeply care about building responsible
relationships to preserve the integrity of humanity and ecosystems. The coalition has
found that the need for affordable education that reverses our destructive ways with each
other and the environment can be met through NSTP. NSTP helps people discover how Nature cooperatively maintains its unpolluted integrity while nurturing diversity.

NSTP provides distant learning, sensory education. Its online activities and readings enable people to make genuine contact with natural systems. Students learn directly from
the intelligent support of their origins and spirit in Nature, as well as from each other and
mentors worldwide.

The scholarships make NSTP research and degrees affordable for qualified applicants while it helps students learn how to implement cost effective cooperative education. Scholarships funds are also generated by donations from IGE alumni and other interested individuals.

Students graduate debt free and connected with opportunities to help themselves and others fulfill their deeper ideals for peace on earth through peace with earth.

The program's director, Dr. Michael Cohen, author of "Reconnecting With Nature," says, "The IGE program is for students who respect Nature and want to help bring Earth, humanity and themselves in a balance. To this end they cooperatively share their skills, knowledge and energies to the program's educational, counseling and administrative functions." The program is available in cooperation with the online, distant learning centers of the International University of Professional Studies (www.iups.edu).

Many of the IGE-IUPS students are accomplished, mid-career, professionals from a wide variety of occupations. They learn, use and teach NSTP as an environmentally and socially responsible component to their work and thereby contribute to contemporary people living sustainably.

Much of the knowledge and teaching in the program is free since it is provided by
conscious sensory contact with Earth and its natural systems within and around us.
Researching and facilitating NSTP is learned and practiced as part of the degree program course work. This makes the program more self-supporting and helps reduce tuition.

Scholarship information is available at http://www.scholarshipdegrees.org/applicants.htm
l. The program is described at http://www.scholarshipdegrees.org/
The program homepage is http://www.ecopsych.com/iupshomepage.html

PROJECT NATURECONNECT
P.O. Box 1605 Friday
Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313
nature@interisland.net
www.ecopsych.com

Contact Information:
Institute of Global Education
Joseph Nchor
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