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TBB Featured in ClimateEdu: .Into the Gap: Can Round-the-World Trips Justify Their Emissions Cost?
One Parent's Perspective by TBB Parent Alum Debby Kuenstner
What does it mean to "think beyond borders"?
Invest in the Future: Support the Thinking Beyond Borders Scholarship Fund
Movie Review: Who Killed the Electric Car
TBB Students Hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru!

.Frances-Inca Trail

.Genevieve and Shawn - Inca Trail

.Machu Picchu

Apply Now - Inca Jumping

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Into the Gap: Can Round-the-World Trips Justify Their Emissions Cost?
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Translations       November 2009
Greetings!
The TBB group had an incredible experience hiking to Machu Picchu - the four day trek was challenging and breathtaking.  In the words of TBB student Marianna Brady, "The Inca's were athletic. Today was the most challenging/best day of my life.  I loved every second of it - I have no clue why.  As I walked up and up the air thinned and I stopped more frequently but all I had to do was just look behind me at the breathtaking glaciers and a smile would reappear on my face. It was truly an indescribable experience. I feel so accomplished."
Liz in South AfricaOne Parent's Perspective
by TBB Parent
Debby Kuenstner
The idea of a gap year began with a casual comment by me to our daughter in December of her senior year.  I told her that I thought she would benefit from taking a year off and that if she wanted to take a gap year, her father and I would be supportive.  Like so many parental comments to teenagers, my suggestion fell on apparently deaf ears.  In April, however, once college acceptance news was in, the seed planted in December germinated.  Lizzie attended a gap year fair and returned full of enthusiasm for Thinking Beyond Borders.  Read More
studying the globeWhat does it mean to "think beyond borders"?

This is neither a geography question nor a simple academic concern.  This question is the first step for anyone seeking proactive solutions to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, global climate change, food security, equity, racial and gender discrimination, and just about any other social ill one can imagine.  For, if we haven't learned to think beyond borders, and we don't know how to help others do it, how can we expect to overcome the hurdles of economics, diversity of values and thought, and geography-the borders-that stand between misdirected actions and proactive solutions?  Read More
TBB Students in EcuadorInvest in the Future: Support the Thinking Beyond Borders Scholarship Fund

With the season of giving upon us, TBB is not simply asking you to donate to the organization.  Rather, we are asking you to make an investment.  With ambitious plans to recruit 48 students and raise $125,000 for the Thinking Beyond Borders Scholarship Fund, this is a crucial time for you to support these efforts.  Meeting these goals will take TBB to a new stage: indefinite sustainability.  Failure to achieve these goals will seriously affect the future of this unique and powerful approach to creating change.  This holiday season, consider investing in a new generation of leaders, uniquely prepared to tackle the global challenges of today and tomorrow.  Donate to Thinking Beyond Borders to make an investment in the future.  Invest
Who Killed the Electric Car?Movie Review:
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Directed by Chris Paine

In 1996 Ford leased a limited number of the EV1 to drivers in California.  A fully electric vehicle, the car received impressive ratings from users, was quiet, had no emissions, and was fast.  By 2006, Ford had taken all of the cars it had leased back and quietly destroyed them.  Activists, including a number of celebrities, began a campaign to encourage Ford to continue producing the EV1.  Ford claimed that consumer demand was low, making the product a losing proposition for the company.  Chris Paine's documentary peels back the layers of politics and economics that inspired Ford to create the EV1, prepare a major sales campaign, and then destroy the cars after a limited lease period.  Read More
The group has now begun their experience in China.  Again, in the words of Marianna,  "Every Thursday night in Kunming an 'English Corner' is held at a park near our university.  People from all over the city come to practice their English for hours on end. Everyone was so eager to talk to us.  Each TBBer had about seven people surrounding them yelling questions in broken English.  It was overwhelming but so cool to share stories about my life and learn about how Chinese people perceive Americans."

Sincerely,

Sandy Pendoley

Co-Founder
Thinking Beyond Borders
www.thinkingbeyondborders.org
Photos this month contributed by TBB Student Sam Porter (Apply Now, Hiking the Inca Trail);
TBB Alum Liz Kuenstner (Facebook, One Parent's Perspective).

Thinking Beyond Borders is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.