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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
We started off this week by having a guest speaker from the community teach us about astronomy. Mike Zawaski, professional guide and instructor with Outward Bound West, wilderness medicine instructor, and graduate student, facilitated an interactive presentation called Kinesthetic Astronomy. Students learned about basic astronomy including how the stars, planets, and moon move through space… Read more »
This week we jumped right into the Community Action Process. Students spent Tuesday participating in a Brainwriting exercise to brainstorm local outdoor and environmental issues affecting the Boulder community. After the brainstorming was completed, students generated over 45 problems affecting our community from the brown cloud to invasive species infiltrating the natural ecosystem. By Friday,… Read more »
This week we jumped right into the Community Action Process. Students spent Tuesday participating in a Brainwriting exercise to brainstorm local outdoor and environmental issues affecting the Boulder community. After the brainstorming was completed, students generated over 45 problems affecting our community from the brown cloud to invasive species infiltrating the natural ecosystem. By Friday,… Read more »
This week the CAP was in full swing, with the mound of paperwork and course logistics behind us. On Tuesday, we spent the class learning about the Community Action Project we will take on during this class. Our class will work together to tackle an outdoor or environmental issue affecting our community and actually doing… Read more »
