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 »
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 »
“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.”
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 »
“When the slab cut loose, my mind calculated trajectories, analyzed terrain, and fed me its conclusions
CAP students are expected to broaden their outdoor knowledge and skill base by tapping into the rich educational resources in their community. In order to accomplish this goal, students will take advantage of the free outdoor skills clinics, workshops, and slide shows offered by outdoor retail stores in the Colorado Front Range. Below are some… Read more »
CAP students are expected to broaden their outdoor knowledge and skill base by tapping into the rich educational resources in their community. In order to accomplish this goal, students will take advantage of the free outdoor skills clinics, workshops, and slide shows offered by outdoor retail stores in the Colorado Front Range. Below are some… Read more »
We began the week by debriefing our first winter camping experience as a group. It turned out to be a very educational process as we made a list of all the positive expedition behavior/actions we observed and all of the negative expedition behavior/actions we observed last weekend. We learned that there are no mistakes in… Read more »
“To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await… Read more »
