Beginning at Gandhi's ashram in Sevagram, India, this course explores the potential of human energy to transform community life, conservation, and social movements. It synthesizes schools of thought regarding development. It introduces an approach to community change and conservation called SEED-SCALE (Self-Evaluation for Effective Decision-making and Systems for Communities to Adapt Learning and Expand). This course examines communities successfully applying techniques associated with the Seed-Scale approach.

• Teacher: Daniel Taylor