In the wintertime interim between teaching Mountain School in the fall and teaching Mountain School in the spring, graduate students in the North Cascades Institute Masters in …
Read More of Non-Profit Ninjas Slay the Behemoth
Columbia Elementary School was already told once they couldn’t come to Mountain School as planned. So they certainly weren’t going to let the biggest local snowstorm of …
Read More of Mountain School is ON!: Playing in the Snow, Compensating for the Government Shutdown
There’s a t-shirt that proclaims, “SAVE THE HUMANS.” It’s usually accompanied by an image of a cartoon whale, or maybe a panda bear. Have you seen it? …
Read More of Holy Gaia! I've Been Saved!: The Nature of Education and Vice Versa
How often are you given the task to slowly, silently develop your awareness of beauty? Even more rare, perhaps, to be mindful of this tempting trait as …
Read More of Late Morning, Rainy, Wabi-Sabi Writing
Guest post by Brian Stafki I was part of North Cascades Institute’s Graduate M.Ed. Program third cohort. I felt like I was part of the first, second and …
Read More of Post-Graduate Adventures in Job-Land
The North Cascades are full of secrets. One must have a specific intention to discover the scenic treasures of the peaks, and that intention is usually accompanied …
Read More of An Upriver Life: The Skagit Beyond Highway 20
Even After All this time The sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me.” Look What happens With a love like that, It lights …
Read More of Alighting the Entire Sky: Happy Thanksgiving!
Signs of fall tend to be subtle around the Environmental Learning Center, in the plant world, at least: We live in a dense coniferous forest, so the …
Read More of Ready? Set? Go! Autumn!
Terror surged silently through my viscera as I watched the swirling inferno twist red and merciless up the talus in the smoke-blackened darkness of night. Trapped on …
Read More of The Gifts of Prometheus : the natural and social dimensions of fire ecology
Staff from our Graduate M.Ed. Program will be attending several of the Northwest’s best graduate school exhibitions this month. If you live near any of these places and …
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