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MSA and CCSP To Launch Cascadia Sustainability Semester in 2013

By Christine Sine on 04/19/2012

Cascadia is CCSP’s first North American based program, and the first Christian off-campus study program exclusively focused on sustainability…Author Shane Claiborne calls CCSP Cascadia, “ a space where you can re-imagine the way we live.”

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Front Porch Education

By Ragan Sutterfield on 09/16/2010

Set aside for a moment your own experiences with school and think about how, given ample time and resources, you would go about educating children. What contexts would you put them in? Who would you want them to learn with and how?…Who would be their companions on the learning journey?…

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The “Mad Farmer” on Education

By Ragan Sutterfield on 01/15/2010

Caitlin Flanagan recently created a stir with her article in The Atlantic criticizing school gardens. There have been some excellent rebuttals to Flannagan, but as I read the article I kept hearing Wendell Berry’s poetic character, “The Mad Farmer,”…

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