The Ecosa Institute is a sustainable architecture design university, offering semester abroad programs in sustainable architecture and environmental green design, including landscape architecture and permaculture.

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A radical approach to
Sustainable Design

Green design, sustainable architecture university - Ecosa Institute, Prescott, Arizona

As global warming leads to ever more critical environmental conditions, the time has come for designers, architects, and builders to become committed students of sustainability and vigilant stewards of the natural world.

Now you can learn how green design is part of the solution. Whether you are looking to explore a new career, study abroad for a term...

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This summer, invest in a program that will have you generating positive solutions to the global environmental emergencies we face today.  Prepare yourself for new opportunities in the "green" economy.

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Now enrolling for fall semester 2009 and spring semester 2010. These unique, intensive, in-depth, 16-week experiences provide an extraordinary opportunity to explore the reality and the promise of sustainable design.

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“In many ways, what students get in one [ECOSA] semester is a more holistic understanding of sustainability than they could presently get at any traditional design school.”

American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment 2006 Report