Outline of Trip

I think we need an idea that is ingenious and inventive in terms of teaching. We can teach outdoor/sustainable skills that is in a new method... but the method has not come to me yet... but it will my friend. it will.

General Idea
Buy diesel bus and convert to bio-diesel
Set up composting area in Fort Collins/Boulder/Denver (Universities)

Fort Collins (5 days)
-Pingree Park hike - Emerald Lake (1.5 days)
1. Spend time in Pingree Park focusing on trail management/forest management/
2. Outdoor class and possibly ropes course
-Stop in Fort Collins to visit ME lab to learn about biofuels and potential majors within CSU
-Bike around Fort Collins
1. During festival downtown
2. picnic in City Park and frisbee
3. Lake canoeing in City Park
- Whitewater rafting down Poudre Canyon
- Bouldering/top-rope climbing in Foothils
- Water focus with CSU/Hydrology department (need more idea on this one for sure)
-movie at New Belgium Brewery

Boulder
-Tubing down Boulder Canyon
-Moutain biking in Loveland/Winter Park area
-Sustainable business/LEED accredidation at school around Boulder

Denver
- Hike 14er
- one whole day in mountains (mountain biking/mountain sledding, hiking, etc.)
-Rockies Game
-Integrate Denver University into the picture somewhere

If we could get this accredited on at least a general level with schools in Colorado that would be awesome. So that students could take this “sustainable lessons” going forward, that could be a core curriculum credit in college, or something along those lines. Or people could just take it for fun and the wonderful knowledge we will bring to the table.

Goals and Objectives

1. To share and give ownership of sustainability practices through adventure-experiential-educational programs for youth.
2. Purchase 2 initial 10-man sailboats, dive gear, surfboards, other adventure tools, textbooks, agricultural tools, wind mills, solar panels, yurts etc.
3. Write curriculum that may pass for high school science, industrial tech, or other credits
4. To set up 10 properties on 5 continents capable of supporting sustainable, low-impact communities.
5. Purchase lands in danger of high-impact development
6. Write management plans for each property
7. Create an international non-profit to oversee the management of the properties
8. Create recreation management plans for the lands
9. Set up trade systems among communities
10. Promote cultural preservation
11. Educate the importance of the preservation of culture
12. Promote less obtrusive technologies
13. Operate semester and summer programs for HS and College aged participants (many college and high school students are unaware of sustainability practices and what the need is for them. The programs may also contribute to intrinsic satisfaction through adding effort to a community sustainability project.)
14. Find a host University (likely one that has high interest in sustainability science and has money)
15. Use the host university’s requirements (and piggy back onto their government tax form)

Time frame for initial goal accomplishment: 10 years