Articles by Jeff Sharpe
Brooklyn Update: Kayaking, Governors Island, Rockaways
Greetings from a still unseasonably hot NYC. We shuffled some things around with the program agenda due to the relentless heat for the past five or so days, but spirits are still high as we round the corner into our final full day of the program. Tomorrow, we’ll have our design challenge presentations in the… Read More
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Brooklyn Update: Green and Grey Infrastructure Plus Lots of NYC Fun and Culture
What have we been up to for the past 48 hours or so? Thursday morning started with a bit of serendipity as we awoke to rumbles of thunder and some heavy rain, a perfect start to a day focused on NYC’s water infrastructure. Where does all of that rainfall go? Let’s find out. Skies had… Read More
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Brooklyn Update: Scavenger Hunt, SIMS Recycling, Brooklyn Grange, and Red Hook
We’re about to wrap up our third full day in Brooklyn. Here is a brief summary of what we’ve been up to and a bunch of photos: We kicked things off on Day 1 with a keynote address from Pete Dominick, radio host, CNN commentator, and standup comedian. Morning of Day 2 took us up… Read More
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Welcome to Brooklyn 2018
Greetings from Brooklyn. We’re getting fired up for the start of our Brooklyn: Urban Environmental Systems program. We (Cathy, Joanna, Jenny, and Jeff) have been busy for the last few days getting ready for everyone arriving tomorrow. We have so many fun and interesting things planned for the next two weeks. Can’t wait to meet… Read More
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Why We Deleted Facebook
I’ve been looking for an excuse to #deletefacebook since day 1 of Sustainable Summer as an organization. Conventional wisdom among marketers is that Facebook is an essential platform for customer acquisition. As an organization that works with the high school demographic, this is perhaps doubly true for us. So, begrudgingly, one of the first things… Read More
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Environmental Leadership: Why It Isn’t Easy To Explain What It Is We Do
Environmental Leadership: A Students Perspective On Sustainable Summer and Why It Isn’t Easy To Explain What It Is We Do We recently published the 2017 issue of Amaranthus: The Journal of Youth Environmental Leadership. In it, one of our alumni, Layla, now a college student at Bucknell University, reflects on her experience in the Ecuadorian… Read More
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Final Days in Galapagos
Being our second to last day on the island of Santa Cruz, we have all settled in to the endless stream of activities we have here. After the surfing day, we went to Las Grietas, which is a giant fissure in the lava rock, to swim and snorkel. It is on “the other side,” so… Read More
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Value Based Organizations, Tax Policy, Stakeholders, and Plenty of Fun Too
Greetings from Hanover. We’ve had a great start to the week, exploring both and out of classroom. We started Monday with the topic of “value-based organizations,” including a case study of a certain Vermont ice cream company that was purchased by Unilever not too long ago. And then we went and visited that company in… Read More
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Dartmouth Organic Farm, Raft Challenge, and Weekend Fun
After several days of moody weather, the sun has finally come out. We had a glorious weekend, kicked off with a food-centric Friday. An afternoon at the Dartmouth Organic Farm engaged in some hands-on gardening followed by an evening workshop on food justice was on the menu for Friday. Saturday we returned to the farm… Read More
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Costa Rica Program Final Thoughts
Welcome to a blog written by your fellow sustainable summer students. We’ve taken some time to reflect on our transformative experiences at Mastatal and would like to share our thoughts with the internet. On behalf of the tribe, I’d like to recognize the knowledge we all absorbed during our stay and the connections we built…. Read More
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