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Ramon’s Weekly Report #1 Advanced Bioregionalism EducationAutumn Session 2007 October 3rd & 5th Wednesday the class met up in the park to begin the new advanced Bioregionalism classes. All of the students were excited about the gifts that visiting Planet Drum staffers had left for them (notepads and colored pencils). The theme of the day was the relationship […]
Read MoreOctober 1-5, 2007 This week marked a turning point in volunteer presence. For the past two months we’ve been getting by with one, two or at most three steady volunteers, but that’s all changing as of now. For some reason August and September have been the slowest so far. But this week, four new volunteers […]
Read MoreSeptember 24-28, 2007 Summary: The last week with only a couple volunteers; soon more will be arriving and the house will fill up again for the first time in over two months. The routine of watering continued and other projects are mixed in to keep things interesting. It’s almost October and the trees planted in February […]
Read MoreHola, The following is a report excerpted from letters by Judy Goldhaft that may be the closest we get to the usual Dispatch before leaving early Wednesday morning. P & J Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador Subject: News from Ecuador 9/12/07 Yesterday Ecuador’s President Correa came down to do a presentation of some federal funding and a ribbon […]
Read MoreSeptember 17-21, 2007 On Monday we got a ride into El Toro and watered the revegetation site, then walked back out to the main road and caught the bus to the greenhouse. At the greenhouse the plants were watered and some weeding was done. More Guachapeli seeds were collected from full-sized trees nearby that are dropping […]
Read MoreGuard Fox Watch* Press Release The upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada neglect to monitor ongoing environmental impact: VANOC will violate International Olympic Committee mandate for ecological sustainability according to the international ecological monitoring group Guard Fox Watch. —San Francisco, California USA September 17, 2007 The Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) must immediately […]
Read MoreSeptember 10-14, 2007 The week started off with going bottle hunting in Leonidas Plaza. Judy joined Patrick and me as we scoured the suburb of Bahia picking up empty three-liter plasticsoda bottles. We talked to some fishermen about the possibility of using old nets to cover young trees to protect them from insects and animals […]
Read MoreSeptember 3-7, 2007 On Monday we watered Maria Dolores and Don Pepe. Some neighborhood kids came out to help us carry the water at Maria Dolores. From there to the greenhouse where we watered and turned the compost. In the morning on Tuesday we watered La Cruz and then caught the bus to the greenhouse […]
Read MoreAugust 27-31, 2007 Summary: This week was still somewhat low on staff and it was a bit of a struggle to cover the watering of the sites, but we were able to take care of them, and even had some time to work in the greenhouse. On Monday compost was picked up from our friend […]
Read MoreAugust 20-24, 2007 Summary: This was another week with only one volunteer, and thankfully plenty of help from our Ecuadorian friends, and even a little rain to make the watering possible. Since Brian left last Friday, there was only me and Lindsey left. On Monday we went to the greenhouse to check in on things, watered […]
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