reputation for its courses in social theory, eco-philosophy and alternative technologies." Activities The ISE hosts summer programs, a year-round B.A. degree program, workshops on issues such as biotechnology and a speakers bureau. The ISE is involved in research as well as publishing and activist projects. Intensives The ISE organizes educational ‘intensive seminars’ about human/nature relationships, directly democratic movements, climate change, and the historical unfolding of Left politics. At ISE intensives, students establish links between their current political work on the ground to the 'grounded theory' of social ecology. MA Program at Prescott College The ISE works in collaboration with the Prescott College Master of Arts Program (MAP) to offer a concentration in social ecology for Prescott MAP students. Students attend colloquia in Prescott, Arizona and in Vermont, while working independently in their home communities in collaboration with an ISE graduate advisor. Summer Colloquia The Institute for Social Ecology has held annual summer colloquia since 2007. The weekend gatherings are an opportunity for new and longtime associates of the Institute to discuss current issues, workshop writing projects, and renew a sense of community. Activism Dan Chordokoff told VPR in 2014, "I think we’ve always seen our role as one of educating other educators and activists," and "as a place which was involved in praxis, really trying to take the ideas and see how they can be applied in the world. And invariably, inevitably that’s led to involvement in a number of ecologically oriented social movements over the years." In the early 2000s, the ISE Biotechnology Project activist focus included opposition to genetic engineering of food. ISE has also been involved in the movement for climate justice, including protests that occurred on the day after Earth Day in 1990. The ISE’s approach to grassroots organizing is rooted in the principles of decentralism, community control, and face-to-face, direct democracy that have broadly inspired many movements for global justice. See also Social ecology Sustainability Biodiversity Global warming Ecology Earth Science Food Sovereignty Natural environment Recycling Social justice References External links Education & Community Action: A History of the Institute for Social Ecology’s Programs Social Ecology and Social Movements: From the 1960s to the Present Prescott College Master of Arts Program (MAP) Environmental organizations based in Vermont Organizations established in 1974 Plainfield, Vermont Vermont culture Anarchist organizations in the United States Social ecology (Bookchin) Anti-consumerist groups Education in Washington County, Vermont Goddard College 1974 establishments