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 »
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
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 »
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 »
QUESTION: How does your experience on our camping trip in “the backcountry” connect with our action project and your life back in “civilization?” *************************** *************************** Grading and Expectations: The standard 4, 3, 2, 1 grading scale outlined in the syllabus will apply to these required journal entries. I expect you to put at least 15-30… Read more »
This weekend we will be heading out on our first overnight. Check out the pictures of students practicing tent set up! Nice work! Check back next week to find out how these students put their wilderness skills to use!
The Cottonwood Institute is proud to welcome two amazing young woman onto our staff as instructors for the Community Adventure Program. Paige Doughty will be instructing at New Vista High School in Boulder, CO and Leslie Douglass will be instructing at P.S.1. Charter School and Manual High School in Denver and will teach camping and… Read more »
Today our friend Patty with SolChef came to teach us about solar cooking. We had no idea we could cook just about anything using the energy from the sun! First Patty explained to us how the ovens work. Next she showed us the various types and how you can bake in some and fry in… Read more »
Our overnight is coming up in just a few weekends so we thought we’d have a little tent competition: Boys vs. Girls. With a little teamwork, and lots of confused onlookers from Speer Blvd. our tents were complete and ready to be used! I think we are ready for the mountains!
Today students at PS1 took a field trip to REI’s Denver flagship store to learn about the various items they need to bring on our first camping trip. Each team of students was responsible for learning about different gear:clothing, tents, sleeping bags, backpacks, food and cooking, and footwear. Based on our upcoming trip to Golden… Read more »
