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Breaking the Straw Ceiling: TBB '10 students Marianna Brady, Bridget Callahan, Lucy Griswold, and Calypso Thomson created this incredible media project in Bua, Ecuador. |
The environment and the natural resources it provides are threatened. Your group will explore how local and global production and consumption systems affect the environment. You'll investigate how industry, agriculture, cultural conflicts, and land rights threaten rainforests and clean water supplies in rural Ecuador. Your group will plant trees that protect the local ecosystem and support local farmers.
You'll experience towering peaks of the Andes Mountains, peaceful equatorial beaches, and the soft hum of a tropical rainforest. You'll explore the colonial architecture and history of Quito. You'll hear and see the traditional arts of ancient cultures.
Travel to Peru and hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. The Incan Empire, including more than 20 million people, covered the majority of the Andes Mountains when the Spanish Conquistadores arrived. The four-day trek along the Inca Trail traverses the same 14,000 foot mountain passes that locals have crossed for hundreds of years. Your trail guide will explain the creation of the empire and the mysteries of the Inca. If you hurry, you'll be the first to arrive at the once lost city of Machu Picchu just after dawn. You can carefully examine its architecture or climb Wyna Picchu, the adjacent peak, for a bird's eye view of the majestic landscape.
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"How often do students who strive to think globally get to debate environmental issues by day and continue the conversation by night with their Ecuadorian host father who's struggling to make his farm more sustainable?" - Lucy Griswold, TBB '10, University of Texas at Austin |
