ethical expeditions

Conserving our natural world through education and community empowerment

Ethical Expeditions is dedicated to conserving our natural world by helping build the green generation through education.

Endorsements for Ethical Expeditions

"Ethical Expeditions helps fill a huge gap in modern society; the gap between what's taught in the classroom and the day-to-day miracles happening outside. I can think of no better way to close this gap than to get kids into wild areas where Nature does the teaching, affecting students in ways that stick for the rest of their lives."
-- Karsten Heuer

"I believe that the approach of Ethical Expeditions, to bring young people in direct contact with the problems of our developing world during an eight week period, is to be applauded. I myself was motivated by such a visit to Borneo and the impressions I gained changed my whole life and career. And looking back 20 years ago at the small school in Borneo that made the change, that became the start of what is now the world's largest primate conservation project, I can tell you that there is such pure potential amongst these young people, such energy and dedication, that we are obliged to give them a view that is wider than that of their computer monitors. Keep it up, will be happy to help in any way I can!"
--Willie Smits

"Travel is one of the most important things for a student to experience, to grow, to learn. Travel outside of our country changes students. I've watched students be transformed during their trips abroad. Ethical Expeditions provides these kinds of trips for students."
--Dennis Littky

Members

  • Nadine  Crowe
  • Malia Guyer-Stevens
  • Xaque Cwynar
  • Cameron Barner
  • Kristie O'Connor
  • Andrew
  • Megan Bulloch
  • Linda Joyce Franks
  • richard johnson
  • Paula
  • Lyndon Morrow
  • Taylor Falconer

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Recent Update

Now accepting applications for our 2010 Zambia Expedition. Apply Now!

Meet the 2010 Borneo Expedition Fellows

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Blog Posts

Brent Loken

Hope.....

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

Posted by Brent Loken on October 4, 2009 at 1:20pm

Sheryl Gruber

Local News

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

Posted by Sheryl Gruber on August 28, 2009 at 9:00am

Brent Loken

The Next Eco-Warriors

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!

Posted by Brent Loken on August 27, 2009 at 11:20pm

Michelle Thomasson

Need a garden

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

Posted by Michelle Thomasson on July 15, 2009 at 10:46am — 3 Comments

Sheryl Gruber

Part of the "movement"

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

Posted by Sheryl Gruber on July 11, 2009 at 8:37pm

Veronica Galvin

little things

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

Posted by Veronica Galvin on July 9, 2009 at 7:10am — 1 Comment

Daryn Kobata

New online book on global warming by Union of Concerned Scientists

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

Posted by Daryn Kobata on June 22, 2009 at 10:20am

Gregory Hilbert

Kudos to Ethical Expeditions from Green Education Network

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

Posted by Gregory Hilbert on June 22, 2009 at 7:48am — 2 Comments

Sheryl Gruber

Cloth Napkins

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.

Posted by Sheryl Gruber on June 17, 2009 at 4:08pm

Daryn Kobata

Preserving the earth in NYC

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

Posted by Daryn Kobata on June 9, 2009 at 2:52pm — 2 Comments

Lisa Brown

Extreme Ice

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

Posted by Lisa Brown on June 7, 2009 at 7:22pm — 2 Comments

Brent Loken

Lettuce

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

Posted by Brent Loken on June 4, 2009 at 6:06pm

Jesse Horn

Home

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

Posted by Jesse Horn on June 3, 2009 at 7:36pm — 1 Comment

Paul Moreau

The Commencement Address by Paul Hawken to the Class of 2009, University of Portland, May 3, 2009

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...

Posted by Paul Moreau on May 28, 2009 at 8:02pm — 4 Comments

Ana Santos

My ambitions at present...

... 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

Posted by Ana Santos on May 28, 2009 at 4:42pm — 2 Comments

Tylor curry

school- exhibition

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

Posted by Tylor curry on May 27, 2009 at 9:31pm — 1 Comment

Cory Gill

Eco-Social Experiment on Twitter

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.

Posted by Cory Gill on May 23, 2009 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Johnie Foebes

What I'm up to.


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

Posted by Johnie Foebes on May 23, 2009 at 1:52pm — 1 Comment

Emi Thornton

Making the world a better place...

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.

Posted by Emi Thornton on May 21, 2009 at 7:28pm — 3 Comments

Lisa Brown

what am I doing?

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.

Posted by Lisa Brown on May 21, 2009 at 10:11am — 2 Comments

 
 

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