Conserving our natural world through education and community empowerment

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The Beginning

The time has finally come. Months of talking about this trip some time off in the future have finally come down to these last few hours. I'm flying out in the morning and should be landing in Balikpapan on the 8th. I'm looking forward to sharing the experiences with everyone! Continue

Added by Jesse Horn on January 5, 2010 at 1:10pm — No Comments

Good job

Hi Brent how are you? as you know we met in pakistan so i am really happy to join this. hope you will continue it as long as you can. if you can make an expedition to vist fairy meadows and see the enviomentel issues. thanks. Alm. Continue

Added by khan alam on November 27, 2009 at 7:26am — No Comments

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

Added by Brent Loken on October 4, 2009 at 1:20pm — No Comments

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

Added by Sheryl Gruber on August 28, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

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! Continue

Added by Brent Loken on August 27, 2009 at 11:20pm — No Comments

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

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

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

Added by Sheryl Gruber on July 11, 2009 at 8:37pm — No Comments

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

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

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

Added by Daryn Kobata on June 22, 2009 at 10:20am — No Comments

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

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

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. Continue

Added by Sheryl Gruber on June 17, 2009 at 4:08pm — No Comments

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

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

Extreme Ice

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

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

Lettuce

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

Added by Brent Loken on June 4, 2009 at 6:06pm — No Comments

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 Continue

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

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... Continue

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

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

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

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

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

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. Continue

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

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

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