Sheryl and I have spent the past three weeks traveling on the East Coast of the United States and speaking in schools and with students. What is hopeful is that there is a growing desire in young people to want to make a change in the world. This desire was expressed by students and teachers in schools from Newark to New Hampshire. During our presentations we noticed that students were aware of many of the issues yet unaware of how they could make a difference. We hope that through out expeditio… Continue

Our local weekly newspaper, The Chief, recently published an article about what our local environmental group, Squamish CAN, will be doing for the International Day of Climate Action on October 24th. In the same article, the author highlighted Ethical Expeditions and included a wonderful student quote that perfectly summarizes the type of educa… Continue

Sheryl and I have been selected to write a chapter for an upcoming book titled, "The Next Eco-Warriors." The book is being put together by Emily Hunter, Canadian environmental activist and journalist and daughter of Bob Hunter, one of the founders of Greenpeace. We'll keep you posted!

Hi all,

Spent 19 years out of the UK and only came back to England for our daughters education. So miss the Southern Spanish landscape, my garden, my olive tree (Juanito) and the large allotment, the appreciation of life and less materialistic outlook: www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/48-flowing.html

Only have a rental garden at moment, can grow things in pots but would really like to have a plot of land for community horticulture, probably via our small Transition Initiative we have here:
h… Continue

In Paul Hawken's book, Blessed Unrest, he speaks of the ever growing environmental movement; a movement with a small "m" because there is no official leader, but rather over ten million organizations world-wide working toward a similar goal. Today our local wonderful and budding environmental group, Squamish CAN (Climate Action Network), went on a day long field trip to explore our community wetlands, recycling center, solar water heater installation, an outdoor school, and farmer's market, all… Continue

Lately I've been trying to do lots of little things during the day to conserve energy and be less wasteful. My job is only about a mile from home which means I can walk everyday, even through a few rain storms, so I haven't driven a car in about 6 weeks. Everytime I'm driving it's at least a carpool! I've also been trying to do things like turn off the lights after I leave a room, take shorter showers, use reusable bags at the grocery store and buy things that don't have a lot of extra packaging… Continue

Hi all - just got an email about this - it's an online anthology called Thoreau's Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming:

http://www.ucsusa.org/americanstories/

Here's their description:

This new anthology from the Union of Concerned Scientists and Penguin Classics brings together established writers and fresh voices to inspire us with personal stories and reflections on global warming.

Following in a uniquely American tradition of environmental writing begun by Henry David Thoreau an… Continue

I read today's Environmental Expeditions email with great interest, happy to learn of positive developments. Checked in here to see the 350.org video EE recommended (above) and discovered later GEN's publisher had not yet posted it! This is the third time EE has alerted us to something important for GEN to post immediately and to urge other websites to do the same. The 350 date of Oct 24 must be on all of our calendars. Thank you Ethical Expeditions for all you do! Brent and Sheryl, we look forw… Continue

When we visited friends a few months ago, they inspired us to completely get rid of paper napkins and paper towels in our home. It has been an amazingly easy switch to use cloth instead. They are easily used for a few days and then hand washed or tossed into any load of laundry. It also just feels nicer. I highly recommend it to everyone! And thanks to Renata and Chance for the inspiration.

As contradictory as that sounds, it's not only doable, but we're doing pretty well! As Warren Karlenzig posted on April 15, 2007:

"New York City's Small Carbon Footprint
New York released details of its carbon inventory Friday, and its emissions were just under one percent of the nation's, with about 2.7 percent of the national population of 300 million. That means the city emits only about one-third as much as the rest of the nation does on average, mostly because of its strong city and metro… Continue

Really great films about the glacier melt. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/extremeice/program.html

We are eating our first lettuce leaves from our garden. One small step in reducing our carbon footprint.

Everyone should check out this short TED talk and download the film on June 5th.

http://www.ted.com/talks/yann_arthus_bertrand_captures_fragile_earth_in_wide_angle.html

http://www.home-2009.com/us/index.html

The PDK document for this "address", posted by Brent Loken, is called "Healing or Stealing". It is a very moving speech and its message should be echoed around the world at this time many students are now moving out into their adult lives. I encourage all to download and take time to read and reread and catch the deep meaning and then...

... are to get fish farms out of the water. This will help us conserve our wild salmon stocks and all those other wonderful things that depend on this amazing fish (bears, eagles, whales, even our coastal forests). I devote a huge chunk of my volunteer time to spreading awareness on the terrible impacts of salmon farming on ourselves and on our environment.
... are to help my community adapt and face the challenges presented by climate change, reducing our carbon footprint in the process. We now… Continue

I have been working on a lot of school work latly . i have been trying to get my exhibition binder all put together that way it will look nice at my exhibition and i think that i will do pretty good. one project that i am really excited to show at my exhibition would be my internship project. my intership is with the nature consotium. what we do there is try to restore the west duwamish green belt to a native habatat. so on a normal day we are removing invasives plants and mulching areas . then… Continue

I'm currently working on an eco-social experiment over at Gracts.com (GReen ACTs). The idea is to get Twitter users to Tweet about their environmentally friendly activities and to encourage their followers to do the same. As I said, it's kind of an experiment but hopefully this grass root effort will ecourage folks to do a little bit more every day to help the environment.

I just came back from a 4 day week at Camp Waskowitz in North Bend, Washington. I went as a One Week Leader or OWL. My job there is to look after the 5th and 6th grade kids that come up to spent a week over night at camp. The camp is big on environmental education and being a custodian to the… Continue

This year at school, I am a peer mediator, so i help people figure out problems at school and at home. I also volunteered as a garbage picker-upper at school. So, I help people with their problems, and i pick up garbage.

I am trying to promote whole foods eating with my clinic patients, encouraging them to shop locally and look for local grown foods. An older friend and I will be gardening together this summer and hopefully be able to put up some foods for the winter (I have a GREAT! root cellar at my new place). I am going to start riding my bike into town to work (only 4 miles) now that we have moved out to our new place.