Since 2000 the Ecosa Institute has advocated a radical departure from the traditional approach to teaching design. We use nature as a model for our design curriculum, and provide a student experience that is complex, recursive and diverse. Our core program offering is an in-depth and experiential Ecological Design Certificate, in which students learn use design and ecological awareness to explore the exciting challenge of creating a healthy, just and sustainable world. We challenge our students to envision and design for a world where human activities are in balance with the natural world. Check out http://ecosa.org for more information.