Preserving the Ethnosphere

The Cloud Institute presents its 2008 Advanced Summer Institute, entitled "Preserving the Ethnosphere," which asks the question "What does it matter if cultures fade away?"

Cost: $750 ($850 if attending intro day)

The ethnosphere is the sum total of all the thoughts,beliefs, myths, and institutions brought into being by the human imagination. It is humanity's greatest legacy, embodying everything we have produced as a curious and amazingly adaptive species. The ethnosphere is as vital to our collective well-being as the biosphere. And just as the biosphere is being eroded, so is the ethnosphere—if anything, at a far greater rate. – Wade Davis, Anthropologist