CAP Week in Review

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This week, students conducted research for the Organic Resource Guide they are compiling for their Community Action Project. A rough outline for the guide was created and students broke up sections to research based on what interested them the most. On Wednesday, we had an awesome presentation by Jessie Stoner about various snow shelters, information… Read more »

TLOG for March 5-6, 2004

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The Community Adventure Trip Log (TLOG) is a tool that we use to document each trip. Students can use this as a reference and template for coordinating their own trips outside of this class and future CAP classes will use this information as a reference for future trips. This is also a reflective tool for… Read more »

Quote for March 4, 2004

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“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common that unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

Student Journal Entry, by Jessie Stoner

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This last week has completely changed my eating habits. I was so inspired when the two guys came in from the Boulder Co-Op. I started eating more vegetarian and healthy that night. As tempting as it was to eat those chocolate chip cookies at the bake sale the next day, I didn

Quote for March 2, 2004

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“Do you fear the force of the wind and the slash of the rain? Go face them and fight them, be savage again. Go hungry and cold like the wolf, go wade like the crane; the palm of your hands will thicken, the skin of your cheek will tan, you

CAP Week in Review

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This week we continued to hammer away on our Community Action Project. On Tuesday, we came up with the following statements that helped us define the problem that we want to address: 1. People are buying globally while thinking locally instead of buying locally and thinking globally. 2. Corporate monopolies in the agriculture industry focus… Read more »

CAP Week in Review – February 24, 25, and 27, 2004

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This week we continued to hammer away on our Community Action Project. On Tuesday, we came up with the following statements that helped us define the problem that we want to address: 1. People are buying globally while thinking locally instead of buying locally and thinking globally. 2. Corporate monopolies in the agriculture industry focus… Read more »

Quote for February 27, 2004

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“This stillness, solitude, wildness of nature is a kind of thoroughtwort or boneset, to my intellect. This is what I go out to seek. It is as if I always met in those places some grand, serene, immortal, infinitely encouraging through invisible, companion, and walked with him.”

The Boulder Co-op Market Rocks!

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I mentioned in the last CAP Week in Review that our class had the distinct honor and pleasure of having Cornelius and Blair from the Boulder Co-op Market talk to us about the environmental benefits of buying local and organic food. I wanted to take the time to acknowledge and thank them once again for… Read more »