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Institute for Social Ecology

Popular education for a free 
and ecological society

For nearly fifty years, the Institute for Social Ecology has offered experiential radical education for grassroots organizing and community-building: out of our home base in north-central Vermont, online, and with host partners around North America. We are tireless movement educators for direct democracy, social revolution, and reharmonizing human society with the rest of nature.

Join us in Vermont or virtually August 23-25 for our 50-year anniversary celebration and reunion!

Courses

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Theories of Fascism

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Ecology, Democracy, Utopia: Introduction to Social Ecology

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  • September 10, 2024

Confronting Ecofascism: Environmental Politics and the Radical Right

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Institute for Social Ecology Mentorship Program

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  • September 1, 2024

Municipalism Cohort Fellowship

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Solarpunk, Art, and Social Ecological Aesthetics

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The Philosophy and Politics of Social Ecology

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Commune, Council, Party: Marxism and Direct Democracy

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Feminism and Ecofeminism: A Social Ecology Approach

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Food and Climate Justice: Resistance and Liberation

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Legacies of Environmental Radicalism

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History and Philosophy of Biology

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Blog

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Cosmic Anarchy and the Law of Increasing Complexity

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ISE’s 50th anniversary this August! Register now!

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“We Will Defend This Life, We Will Resist on This Land”

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Elements of Liberatory Social Movement Organizations

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Authoritarianism, Anti-Jewish racism, and The Israel-Hamas War: An Open letter to the Left

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A Second Nakba: Paving the Way to Genocide

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Harbinger Issue 3 Call for Submissions: Heresies and Sacred Cows

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“Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV”: A Collective Stance to Demand Our World Back

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Book Review – Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics Between Left and Right

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History Feature: How is Vermont like a ‘Third World’ country?

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Harbinger Issue #2: Race, Racism, and White Supremacy

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Tribute to Bruno Latour (1947 – 2022)

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Videos from our 2022 summer gathering: Building Ecosocialism From Below

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Video: Confronting Climate Crisis Public Forum

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Communalism and Especifismo

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Racism, Not Race: Conversation with Joseph Graves, Jr. and Alan Goodman

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Events

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Virtual Participation in the 2024 Summer Intensive

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2024 Summer Intensive Course

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Confronting False Promises and False Solutions: Report-backs from COP27

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  • December 15, 2022

The Uses and Misuses of the Just Transition Framework in South Africa

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  • May 26, 2023

2023 Summer Intensive Course

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  • July 7, 2023

Keeping Pace: Confronting the Quickening Pace of Climate Change

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  • October 27, 2023

50th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion

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  • August 23, 2024

Return to the Source: Part 1

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Crisis as Catalyst: Lessons on Building an Ecosocialist Future from the Social Revolution in Sri Lanka

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  • November 30, 2023

Intercommunalism: A Panel with the Municipalism Learning Series

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  • February 14, 2024

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