Creating Collaborative Communities
CPR for the Earth
Based on a chapter in David Brower's book, Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run, students at South Salem High School and The Community Schoolhouse, in Oregon, chose various ways to promote CPR (Conservation, Preservation, and Restoration) for the Earth in their own community.
Teacher Collaboration
Using David Brower's book, Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run, as a springboard for a Sustainability Forum project focusing on the seven solutions David Brower proposes. From that forum emerged the service project, CPR for the Earth, where students chose ways to conserve, preserve and restore within their local community and environment.
Student Empowerment
Students at South Salem High School and the Community Schoolhouse chose local projects that would promote conservation, preservation and restoration. Students worked to save save an endangered species, the Fender's Blue butterfly by removing invasive species like the Himalayan blackberry and English ivy from the original prairielands of the Willamette Valley and plant the native Kincaid's lupine.
Impact
As a result of the efforts spearheaded by students and others to plant and restore the native Kincaid's lupine to the meadows of the Willamette Valley, the Fender's Blue butterfly, once thought extinct, today has made a comeback.