Quote for Monday, April 30, 2007

"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew."

-Marshall McLuhan

Journal Discussion for Friday, April 27, 2007

This week we chose our action project and began to contact members of the community who can provide us with guidance and support in our pursuit of a successful 4 Days in May.  We’ve decided that Fire Mitigation would be an interesting topic to learn about and participate in.  We’ve also decided that building a greenhouse and creating a composting system on campus is a goal worth devoting our time towards.  In this journal discussion I’d like you to explain, in your own words, what you think about each of these projects.  What are we trying to accomplish, ultimately, by learning about and participating in a fire mitigation action project?  Likewise, what are we trying to achieve by the construction and creation of a greenhouse with composting system?  Why, as individuals who could be doing many things with our time on this planet, are we choosing to work towards these goals?  Remember, you choose these issues; think about what you wanted to gain, and give, from working on them.  Your response should be no less than three paragraphs (a paragraph, by the way, is 4-5 sentences of logical and connected writing).

Thanks

Quote for Friday, April 27, 2007

"The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves."

Quote for Thursday, April 26, 2007

"We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.  For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope."

-Wallace Stegner

Quote for Tuesday, April 24, 2007

"Washing ones hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

-Paolo Freire

CAP Overnight, April 21-22, 2007

Sami serves up some flaming marshmallow.

Survival scenario: Alexi digs, Josh goes hypothermic and Tristan
looks for help…

Ford explains the petroleum cotton-ball fire.

The road home…

CAP Overnight, April 21-22, 2007

The sweetness of success.

Jacob tries out the pine-needle bed!

An admirable debris shelter.

CAP Overnight, April 21-22, 2007

Before and after our fire mitigation project…A healthy forest!

Quote for Thursday, April 19, 2007

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quote for Tuesday, April 17, 2007

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children."

-John James Audubon

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