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Desiring Peace: A Meditation on Dag Hammarskjöld, by Roger Lipsey, Parabola, Fall 2010. "Had he accomplished all this and no more, Hammarskjöld would be an illustrious figure in the history of the Cold War and of the UN. But he was much more, and it is this that makes him important for our time. There is a new question working its way through American thought and attitudes, not prominently at the national level but unmistakably at the level of communities, institutes, projects, and broadly recognized needs. The question is effectively expressed by the opening lines of the mission statement of Garrison Institute, a cultural center on the lower Hudson River..." |
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Indoor Living and the Global Greenhouse, by Andrew Revkin, The New York Times, Dot Earth Blog, July 22, 2010. “The Garrison Institute, just down the hill from my home in the Hudson River valley, has organized an exploration of the role of the human mind, with all of its strengths and weaknesses, in both creating the climate challenge and potentially overcoming it. The next effort is a session for a variety of specialists in studies of buildings and behavior...” |
 The Prosocial Classroom (341.25 kB) A peer-reviewed scholarly article by Garrison Institute Initiative on Contemplation and Education director Patricia A. Jennings and Mark T. Greenberg entitled "The Prosocial Classroom: Teacher Social and Emotional Competence in Relation to Student and Classroom Outcomes" appears in the February 2009 issue of the journal Review of Educational Research. "Jennings and Greenberg propose a model of the prosocial classroom that highlights the importance of teachers’ social and emotional competence (SEC) and well-being in development and maintenance of supportive teachers' student relationships, effective classroom management, and successful social and emotional learning (SEL) program implementation. These factors contribute to a classroom climate that is conducive to learning and positive developmental outcomes for students..." |
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Are You Listening? by David Rome and Hope Martin, Shambhala Sun, July 2010. "Is it possible to bring about a shift in the modes of communication that dominate our society? Contemplative practices, with their committed cultivation of self-awareness and compassion, may offer the best hope for transforming these dysfunctional and damaging social habits..." |
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The Garrison Insititute: Bringing Mindfulness to Education, by Joanne M. Lozar Glenn, Business Education Forum, April 2010. "With a team of researchers, [Tish] Jennings, the project's principal investigator, will ... identify what participants [in the CARE for Teachers curriculum, which combines exercises for recognizing emotional patterns... with contemplative practices] found most useful in the training and how they are applying the training in the classroom..." |
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Deep Listening as Love: An Interview with David Rome, Parabola, Spring 2010. "It is like meditation in the sense that you begin with yourself. You have to have self-empathy. Then you can be more open and sensitive to others, less judgmental, more curious, more appreciative. An important aspect of love, as opposed to desire, is appreciating rather than wanting or needing."
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Can you make a difference? 14 simple steps save money, reduce pollution, USA Today online edition, March 18, 2010. “Americans can save money and reduce U.S. carbon pollution 15% by making 14 simple changes such as washing clothes in cold water or using a programmable thermostat...” |
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Can Small Lifestyle Changes Lead to Huge CO2 Cuts?, by Bryan Walsh, Time, March 17, 2010. “A new analysis released on Mar. 12 by the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) and the Garrison Institute's Climate Mind Behavior Project found that personal actions could reduce U.S. carbon emissions by 1 billion metric tons by 2020...” |
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Can Smiley Faces (and a 14-Step Program to Stop Overconsumption) Save the Global Climate?, by David Biello, Scientific American, March 16, 2010. “When rational appeals fall short, environmentalists enlist social and economic incentives--and even neuroscience--to get the public in on national efforts to combat climate change...” |
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Can behavioral economics help save the planet?, by Marc Gunther, The Energy Collective website, March 14, 2010. “People often ask, if I change my behavior, what difference will it make?” Lehner goes on. “This analysis showed that it makes a lot of difference. That’s exciting.” |
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The Two-Chicken Global Warming Solution, by Dan Shapley, The Daily Green website, March 15, 2010. “A new analysis has an encouraging conclusion about individuals who “go green”: If we all took a few simple steps, collectively we could reduce U.S. carbon dioxide emissions 15%.” |
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New Evidence That “Scared Straight” Doesn't Work, by David Berreby, Big Think global forum, March 11, 2010. “Scared straight”, as a strategy for getting Americans to reduce their carbon “footprint”, has been a failure. When people hear the planet's doomed, they don't go start compost heaps; instead, they jump at invitations to avoid the whole subject.” |
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Putting the “I” in Climate, by Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones, Blue Marble Blog, March 12, 2010. “Tiny changes can yield a 15 percent reduction in US greenhouse gas reductions by 2020, cutting 1 billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere, according to a new study released by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Climate Mind Behavior Project at the Garrison Institute...” |
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Ways Around the Impasse, by Jonathan Rose, Global Warming and Weather Psychology, The New York Times Room for Debate Opinion Blog, February 11, 2010. “There is something significant we can do now to fight global warming, whatever the weather and while we resolve the debate over the economic costs and even before regulatory and market solutions kick in: change our behavior...” |
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CARE Program Teaches Educators to Manage Their Emotions, Edutopia, December 2009/January 2010. "Rosa Fernandez-Fraser, a Spanish teacher at Charles O. Dickerson High School, in Trumansburg, New York, knows when she's about to react to a stressful situation...Recognizing her own physical cues and acting on them is one of the tools she's learned at a teacher-training program called Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE), held at the Garrison Institute..." |
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The Green Buddha: Bringing the Dharma to Environmentalism by David Rome Tricycle (web exclusive), September 2009. “The connection between environmental activism and Buddhist practice exists, though it is not always easy to draw...” |
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Program takes aim at emotional stresses of being an educator, The Journal News, August 18, 2009. “'We know from all the science that when kids feel anxious, afraid, nervous or angry, their prefrontal cortex - where all that higher learning takes place - pretty much shuts down because they feel threatened,' said Patricia Jennings, director of the CARE program. 'So in order to really learn, you need to be calm, relaxed, and feel safe. And today it's really hard - for kids and teachers...'” |
Teach Our Children Well, by Barry Boyce, Shambhala Sun, September 2009. “'We will provide a great service if we can help teachers apply mindfulness to their emotions in the intense classroom environment,' said Patricia Jennings, director of the Garrison Institute’s Initiative on Contemplation and Education...”  Teach Our Children Well (Shambhala Sun) (119.97 kB)
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Does meditation do it all?, by Molly De Shong, Shambhala SunSpace, May, 2009. |
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Garrison Institute a meditation retreat fave, by Gary Stern, Blogging Religiously (The Journal News), May 22, 2009. |
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