Welcome to the Community Adventure Program. Before we get started, we need to get some feedback about your outdoor experience, your thoughts about the environment, your community, etc. Please answer this survey honestly and to the best of your ability. The good folks who fund this class use this information to assess the performance of… Read more »
Posts By: Ford Church
Pre-Course Survey, 2nd Quarter 2008
Welcome to the Community Adventure Program. Before we get started, we need to get some feedback about your outdoor experience, your thoughts about the environment, your community, etc. Please answer this survey honestly and to the best of your ability. The good folks who fund this class use this information to assess the performance of… Read more »
CAP Post Course Survey, 1st Quarter 2008
As the quarter comes to a close, I wanted to get some open and honest feedback from this class about how to improve the CAP for future students. This information will not affect your grade, but please take it seriously. It will be reviewed by the school, the Cottonwood Institute, and this information will help… Read more »
Trash!
Our class has decided to tackle the problem of trash at Manual High School and the neighborhood. As we begin to formulate our plan, we need to do some research into what other people are doing, what resources are out there, and how we can motivate people to stop littering. Click on the links below… Read more »
Mustache Madness!
Ford Church, Founder and Executive Director of the Cottonwood Institute, is an amazing man who sadly does not have the ability to grow facial hair. But this October, despite the odds, Ford will be attempting to grow a mustache! Why would he want to do such a silly thing you ask? Well, for Mustache4Cash of… Read more »
Josie’s Poem about our action Project
Journal Entry – Question: “Hopes, Ideas, Challenges on Action Project (theme of Transportation)?” (note: ‘ours’ means Boulder/CAP/New Vista; ‘we’=CAP) I have many hopes and dreams save the world, find some friends, fight some battles — I have many hard times as well; challenges, conflicts, cynicism – But… Read more »
The Story of Stuff
Have you ever looked around your house and thought to yourself, "Man! I have so much junk!" Why do we have so much useless stuff? And where does all this stuff come from and go after we throw it away? These are the questions that Annie Leonard explores in her short video, "The Story of… Read more »
Useful Resources for Action Project–transportation
Car Sharing— Zipcar The Green Streets Initiative — Walk Ride Days Go Boulder CU Environmental Center Go Loco– A ride-sharing service in the Northeast. This service uses facebook to connect people
Easy Environmental Action to Take…
Check out 41 Pounds by Grist.org. You can have your junk mail stopped or severlly limited for five years. It costs some money – $8.50 per year. But look at what you get in return. This from their website: 41pounds.org stops your junk mail and catalogs — protecting the environment. Junk mail wastes an incredible… Read more »
First Overnight Fall Quarter!
The Fall 2008 Cap Crew has completed their first weekend overnight! Well done ladies and gentlemen you were troopers through a sometimes wet weekend. And your participation and enthusiasm wowed me as usual. In our first overnight we…. Learned back-country basics. Constructed Natural shelters. Played Capture the flag Explored and discovered…. the rock with the… Read more »
