Bioregional Education
Bioregional Education Program Progress Report 2010Group B Profesor: Nadine FlexhaugAssistant: Roberto Rodriguez Photos below. The students began to arrive to the first class and the start of the new year in the Bioregional education program with excitement and anticipation. The students were enthusiastic about the excursions to come, meeting their professors, and to hear about all the new things they would soon learn. We chose a nice […]
Ramon CedeñoProfessor – Group ABioregional Education ProgramPlanet Drum Foundation Midterm Report – English(Click here for Spanish/Español)July 6th, 2010 We have now begun the classes with new teachers and class assistants. It’s normal for everyone to see the many happy faces of young students, who are part of the change that we want. It’s beautiful to see so many boys and girls. This year has exceeded our […]
June 8 – July 2, 2010 Although the dry season weather has set in, there are still significant quantities of moisture floating around. It’s chilly and overcast most of the time; the sun only comes out occasionally. But despite this, it also sprinkles every once in a while. Some have described it as an invernillo, a mini-winter (rainy season). Most would say the weather has been […]
More Bioregional Education Photographs June 2010 Note: Click on photos for larger image Ramon’s Class.6/2/10 Ramon’s Class.6/2/10 Ramon’s Class.6/2/10 with other 2 classes. Ramon’s Class.6/23/10 Ramon’s Class.6/4/10 Ramon’s Class.6/4/10 Ramon’s Class.6/4/10 Ramon’s Class.6/4/10 Ramon’s Class.6/11/10 Ramon’s Class.6/16/10 Ramon’s Class.6/18/10 Ramon’s Class.6/18/10 Ramon’s Class.6/18/10 Ramon’s Class.6/18/10
Bioregional Education Program 2010 Planet Drum Foundation’s Bioregional Education Program for 2010 consists of a 12 week program for 11-13 year old local school students of the Bahía de Caráquez bioregion. Classes meet twice weekly in the afternoons and are voluntary, the students choose to participate in the program during their free time. The first day of classes this year was May 11th. On Wednesdays, […]
Bioregional Education Photographs May 2010
April 19-30, 2010 The past two weeks have been full of rain. The kinds of rain that last all night, lightly drizzling, and occasionally coming down hard. It feels kind of like February back in the usual rainy season. We’ve been focusing our efforts on the greenhouse, but dabbling in other areas as well. Some of the seed beds have already started germinating (and random […]
Feb.1-23, 2010 Welcome to the heart of the rainy season. There’s been precipitation during multiple nights of the week for the past month. Sometimes it comes down quite hard (nothing extreme yet, fortunately) and other times it lightly sprinkles throughout the course of the night. A light rain that lasts for a long time is considered the best. If it rains too fast, the soil […]
Paola’s Report #4 Bioregionalism EducationSummer Session, 2009 Week of Aug. 3, 2009 – English Photos below I had no idea what it meant to have an “Open House”, which is what all three Bioregionalism classes were scheduled to have this week. At our Monday meeting, I was told that it meant that each class would display a poster board at their school and explain a […]
July 2 & July 29, 2009 In one long epic day we drove in to the Planet Drum land with a load of Bamboo (Caña) to begin the first structure for the Bioregional Sustainability Institute: a tent platform. This was the first trip with a motorized vehicle. Chino (the one and only, the incredible) drove his full-sized diesel truck. Along the way we cleared eroding […]