After a wildly successful inaugural year, the Cottonwood Institute‘s Earth Task Force at New Vista High School is taking on a new challenge this year to host Boulder Valley School District‘s first student-directed environmental summit called Students Understanding Personal Environmental Responsibility, also known as the S.U.P.E.R. Summit. High school students and teachers from all over… Read more »
Posts By: Ford Church
West Denver Prep Students Embark On A New Adventure
To help launch the Cottonwood Institute‘s year-long Three Trees and a River Project, a group of adventurous 6th graders from West Denver Prep braved the cool mountain air for a special fall weekend camping trip. Despite the fact that many students had never been camping before, they jumped right in to an action packed weekend… Read more »
Operation Military Kids Course Ignites Passion For The Outdoors
The local fire ban didn’t stop this crew of weekend wilderness warriors from igniting a passion for the outdoors. Cottonwood Institute instructors, Darren Silver, Jason Lawrence, and Aleyna Porreca delivered an action-packed course for children and parents of military families through a collaboration with Operation Military Kids and Colorado Lions Camp. A fine mix of fun… Read more »
Volunteers Wake Up Before Sunrise To Help Rebuild 14,000 Foot Peak
Not many people intentionally choose to give up their weekends to get up before sunrise to sling rock and help rebuild trail on 14,000 foot peaks. But that is just what heroic Cottonwood Institute volunteers chose to do this summer when they signed up for our Mt. Evans Volunteer Project. “The wake up call felt… Read more »
Cornhole Throwdown This Weekend!
Loosen up your tossing arm and get ready for the 2010 Cornhole Throwdown to benefit the Cottonwood Institute. Festivities begin this Saturday, October 9th, 2010 at 11am at the northwest fields of Washington Park in Denver, CO. Proceeds from this event will help support our courses to help connect public school students to the outdoors…. Read more »
Music Survival Project Has New Fan Base In Colorado
The Music Survival Project pilot project was a huge hit this summer and has new fan base in Colorado. The Cottonwood Institute, The Slam Movement, and Arapahoe/Douglas Works! Youth in the Works collaborated to bring a passionate group of students to the mountains for a week to practice survival skills, enjoy nature, create music and… Read more »
Cesar Chavez Organic Gardening Project Blazing With Fun!
Produce was harvested, meals were cooked, rivers were explored, and fires were blazing! In fact, two of the students from this course were able to start a fire using the more difficult bow-drill friction fire method on their first try, a Cottonwood Institute record. Some even made bow drill sets from the native cottonwood and… Read more »
Food Miles
“If every US citizen ate just one meal a week composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.” This statistic from Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle inspired 4th quarter Community Adventure Program students at New Vista High School… Read more »
A Day In The Life Of Our Endangered Wolves Course
What is a day in the life of our Endangered Wolves and Animal Tracking course like at Mission:Wolf? It is like nothing else you have experienced. It’s a day of making meals with strangers that have become fast friends. It often starts with feeding the wolves and ends with telling stories around a fire. It… Read more »
Michael Franti Concert Recycled Art Project
We were honored to be invited to table at the Michael Franti and Spearhead concert at Red Rocks on Saturday, July 31st, 2010. During the concert, we featured a recycled art project and asked folks to share their thoughts and ideas about changing the world. To keep the project as environmentally friendly as possible, we… Read more »
