This weekend was our first overnight trip together. Take a few minutes and reflect on this unique experience; not many high school students are given the opportunity to head into the mountains for two days with classmates and instructor. When you look back on this experience I’d like you to rank, in order of their… Read more »
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Nature Awareness Hike, 1/26/2007
"The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives." -Native American Proverb
Take a moment and think about our action project. We’ll only have six or seven weeks to work on whatever issue we select and there are only eight of us. Before we begin, I’d like you to talk about how we can keep people motivated and on task for the duration of the project. What… Read more »
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. He who accepts evil without protesting it is really cooperating with it." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another." -Adlai Stevenson
"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." -Aldo Leopold
Aside from drafting a course contract and discussing aspects of this class, we spent a fair amount of time studying the history of environmentalism this week. I’d like you to consider your ideas about the environmental movement before we constructed a timeline of environmentally historical events. What types of issues did you consider to be… Read more »
"Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. … Read more »
The Cottonwood Institute recently hosted another "Change the World Movie Night" at the Fluid Coffee Bar in Denver, Colorado with a screening of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Al Gore put presidential and political ambitions behind him and is on a mission to raise an awareness about global warming and climate change. He does a… Read more »
