Institute of Global Education Special NGO consultant to the United Nations Social and Economic Council.     P. O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250. 360-378-6313 Send email www.ecopsych.com   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: For further information contact: Dr. Miichael J. Cohen 360-378-6313   Earthday 2001: Environmental Psychologists Offer a Remedy for Ecozombies An antidote found in nature reverses destructive relationships by enabling people and the environment to restore each other. Friday Harbor WA, March 26, 2001: "Anybody, including ecozombies, can successfully rehabilitate ecozombies," says Dr. Michael J. Cohen, a Greenwich University ecopsychologist who has produced nature connected education and counseling programs since 1959. Cohen says "The environment and most of us needlessly suffer because we have become nature-disconnected Ecozombies and don't know it." His newly developed Natural Systems Thinking Process is an outdoor science that helps anybody remedy personal or environmental disorders by sensuously connecting their thinking to nature . Uniquely, it enables people and the environment to restore each other. Cohen's website at www.53senses.com links to free ecozombie antidote Earthday activities, courses and degree programs. He may be contacted at 360-378-6313 An Ecozombie is a person who has become environmentally desensitized to the point that it psychologically deadens them. Cohen says, "An ecozombie's apathy and limited consciousness makes them relate irresponsibly to ecosystem and human life. They ignore opportunities to help restore life in balance because they don't register in their thinking. To our loss, often that describes our society and most of us." Using Cohen's guide book "Reconnecting With Nature" (Ecopress), James Rowe, Director of the Outward Bound School in Costa Rica says, "We dramatically increased our program's effectiveness by adding the Natural Systems Thinking Process to it. It enables our participants to connect with their sensory origins in nature and use that peaceful power to improve their relationships with self, society and the environment. " Cohen says, "Self-improvement, education and healing have always been more successful when they include contact with nature." The Institute of Global Education, a special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, today issued a Proclamation from Dr. Cohen who directs its Department of Integrated Ecology and Project NatureConnect. The Proclamation declares Earthday, April 22, 2001, to be the official start of Ecozombie Rehabilitation Year. The Institute's distance learning degree programs and courses attract students and mid-career professionals from a wide variety of interests. Each adds nature reconnecting skills to their means of helping people and the environment survive the destructiveness of our nature disconnected lives. This improves their effectiveness, marketability, and credibility. Dr. Cohen may be contacted at 360-378-6313, <nature@pacificrim.net> or www.ecopsych.com. A free 800 word article for newsletters or magazines is available at: http://www.ecopsych.com/zombstory.html   - 30 - Press contact: Michael J. Cohen 360-378-6313   CONTINUED: SUPPORTING CREDENTIALS CONTINUED: QUESTION AND ANSWERS   PROJECT NATURECONNECT Ecozombie Rehabilitation Year Institute of Global Education Special NGO consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council Integrated Ecology/Project NatureConnnect Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director Chair: Greenwich University Applied Ecopsychology Faculty: Portland State University Extended Studies P. O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313 www.ecopsych.com nature@pacificrim.net .

.