Articles by Anne Fenton

Greetings from Puerto Ayora!
Greetings from Puerto Ayora!

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Greetings from Puerto Ayora! Our first day and a half in the Galapagos has found us snorkeling in azure waters, hiking through the highlands in search of Galapagos Tortoises, visiting a sustainable coffee producer, and so much more.

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This Thanksgiving, Give Composting a Try
This Thanksgiving, Give Composting a Try

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It’s nearly Thanksgiving, which means in the coming days, many of us will be busy preparing and consuming decadent and delicious feasts.  It also means some of us will find ourselves with an alarming quantity of food waste to dispose of, so we here at Sustainable Summer thought the time was ripe for a blog… Read More

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Why Send Your Teen on an Environmental Leadership Program?
Why Send Your Teen on an Environmental Leadership Program?

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There are dozens of different varieties of summer enrichment programs on the market for high school students, from language and cultural immersion to adventure travel and service learning, so why should you send your teen on an environmental leadership program this summer? Here at Sustainable Summer, we believe there are few things more important than… Read More

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Last Chance to See Yasuni
Last Chance to See Yasuni

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Since Sustainable Summer’s inception, we’ve had many conversations with students, parents and educators about why Ecuador was the ideal location for our inaugural environmental summer programs for high school students. We’ve explained that Ecuador offers nearly unparalleled biodiversity relative to its size, and that it is undergoing a period of rapid growth and development. We’ve… Read More

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A Failure to Future Generations
A Failure to Future Generations

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Today Barack Obama was sworn into the office of president of the United States for the second time, and he laid out an ambitious plan for what he plans to accomplish in the next four years.  Unlike his first inaugural address, which focused largely upon the financial crisis that was then unfolding, this time he… Read More

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The Real Cost of Food
The Real Cost of Food

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Earlier this week I was chatting with a cashier at my local market, and he mentioned to me that another customer had scolded him that day about the price of apples in the store.  I can certainly identify that feeling of shock and horror one sometimes feels in places like Whole Foods, where a bag… Read More

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Why Summer is the Perfect Time for Adventure
Why Summer is the Perfect Time for Adventure

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Jeff and I have already attended several study abroad and summer opportunities fairs for high school students this fall, and we have quite a few more on the horizon.  These fairs offers students a chance to investigate a broad range of different camps and programs, and to decide what type of experience they’d like to… Read More

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Meet Our Organic Agriculture Instructors!
Meet Our Organic Agriculture Instructors!

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Sustainable Summer’s Seeds of Change program would not be possible without our unique partnership with Rio Muchacho Organic Farm. Our group of high school students will spend eight days at Rio Muchacho, located on Ecuador’s Pacific Coast, engaging in a combination of classroom learning about organic agriculture, and practical, hands-on experience working on the farm…. Read More

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Sustainably Thankful
Sustainably Thankful

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This morning I heard on the radio that the average American will travel something like 500 miles for Thanksgiving. That may seem like a considerable distance, particularly for those people braving the pre-holiday traffic today, but it’s quite likely some of the items on your Thanksgiving menu have traveled even further to reach your table…. Read More

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Sustainability
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sustainability

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Anytime a movement gains traction within a culture, it develops its own vocabulary, and as those key words and phrases become increasingly widespread, their meaning often becomes blurred.  In the late nineties, as Silicon Valley was positively exploding, there pre-fixes ‘e,’ ‘i,’ ‘techno’ and ‘cyber’ seemed to pop-up in the unlikeliest of places.  I worked… Read More

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