Welcome to the One Planet Institute

The One Planet Institute is a radical concept combining a suite of environment-related Masters courses with an innovative ‘residential programme’ organized around the operation of a self-sufficient smallholding. A variety of complementary activities will include foraging & bushcraft, music, woodland management, field botany and natural history. Such visceral and collective engagement with the natural world will function to 'educate the attention' of students, animating formal academic study whilst promoting a self-sustaining culture of reflection and debate. Masters degrees will be offered in a range of overlapping subjects from Sustainable Development and Human Ecology to Bushcraft Studies.

For more detailed information please look at the following pages

Introduction – for an overview.
Project statement – for a more detailed business plan.
Breaking Bread – the teaching and learning philosophy
Academic programme – for details of possible courses
Residential programme – for details of the smallholding and other ancillary activities.

PLEASE NOTE

The One Planet Institute is a project in process. This website is designed only to illustrate the concept and to provide a vehicle for market research. If you are intrigued by the concept and would like to register a possible interest in becoming a student when the Institute is launched in eighteen months time, then please fill out a registration form. We will keep you informed of developments.

LATEST NEWS NOV 2009: The response from potential students has been overwhelming, with registrations approaching 500. The credit crunch has slowed progress, but we are now going for course approval for a start-up Masters programme in Permaculture and Sustainability. I will keep you posted.