The day started at 5am, when I got up to catch the bus to Pampacorral. To say the ride was smooth would be a lie, as the roads as incredibly bumpy, but the beautiful scenery of green hills, alpacas and tall mountains full of snow made up for it! At one point the cage of […]
Continue Reading 1 comment July 9th, 2012
A student pulls his bike over to make room for a fast approaching truck. Many students walk or bike several hours round trip to school each day on this narrow mountain road in the Lares district. Last summer students in Pampacorral captured moments of every day life through a photo project with the Andean Alliance. […]
Continue Reading Add comment May 30th, 2012
Check out this recent article in Michigan’s Battle Creek Enquirer about how Aaron got started in Peru. Both Adam and Aaron share their experience starting Team Peru and the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development. Nice work guys! Read the full article here.
Continue Reading 1 comment May 15th, 2012
Congratulations to Jeanne Amrein for a successful Capstone presentation yesterday. Her work, A Feasibility Study for INKAcase, is really important for moving our INKAcase project forward both in Peru and in exploring options for selling the cases back in the United States. While AASD and Team Peru have successfully sold the cases to friends and family, […]
Continue Reading 1 comment May 5th, 2012
This semester Jenny Agis, Katie Holmberg, and I teamed up for a project in our class, Designing Tools For Social Change Organizations. For one whole weekend and 3 hours almost every Wednesday evening our class has explored the role of tools in many different fields. The first few classes I’m pretty sure we were all […]
Continue Reading Add comment April 18th, 2012
“Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes” Those were the lines I read from Jose Oretega y Gasset’s The Revolt of the Masses as our collectivo snaked it’s way across the green peaks surrounding Cuzco. I really internalized these words at the beginning of our trip, and as such attempted to […]
Continue Reading Add comment February 4th, 2012
Since its inception education has been at the core of the Andean Alliance’s approach. The school greenhouse projects embody this component in one way while the Team Peru students from MIIS undergoing an immersive educational experience both in Peru and back at school embody this core attribute in a different way. Now our latest project, […]
Continue Reading 1 comment January 22nd, 2012
My time in the United States has been marred by the incredibly ineffective and potentially harmful farming practices propagated by United States farming companies. There is now a huge disconnect between what is placed on our dining tables and the factors that lead to it’s production, such as: the chemicals being placed into our soil […]
Continue Reading Add comment January 17th, 2012
This semester our group of four students from the Organizational Sustainability class is working with Team Peru and the Andean Alliance on an action research paper here at MIIS. Our group is a mix of MPA and IEP students: Lauren Marasco, Kathryn Harrison, Jamie Cook and Derek Polka. We met throughout the last few months […]
Continue Reading Add comment December 16th, 2011
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