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Inspiring World Travel
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Category: Travel+Place
Out of Bounds: Travels Through Colombia's Red ZoneKidnapping, surfing, plane accidents, and people fishing for cocaine: pretty much business as usual in Richard McColl's out of bounds adventure along the Pacific Coast of Colombia. |
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Category: Music+Art
40th Vallenato FestivalWhile filming a documentary on the 40th Vallenato Festival in Valledupar, Richard McColl discovers that within the mayhem of Colombian politics and music, the only constant is the human warmth of the people. |
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Category: Sustainability
Cidadão Comunitário: Youth Mural Project in Northeastern BrazilWorking with a local Brazilian NGO, a California muralist helps the youth in Natal, Brazil express their stories and beautify their community. |
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Category: Sustainability
Communidad Inti Wara YassiA group of children from the Communidad Inti Wara Yassi hike through the Bolivian jungle where they find devastated ecosystems and wild animals caged for sale on the black market. They begin a public education campaign that evolves into an internationally-sponsored animal shelter and rainforest preserve. |
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Category: Travel+Place
Huayhuash: A Convergence of Change and ResilienceWinner of the Spring 2007 Traverse Award, this story follows a group of mountaineers through the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes where one climber gains a new perspective on the resilience of the local community. |
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Category: Sustainability
DAD in La Cava: Using sports as a catalyst for youth leadership in the slums of BsAsMelchor Villanueva and Susana “Chana” Flores are co-workers at DAD – a sports-based youth development program in a slum called La Cava on the Buenos Aires periphery. Just five years ago, neither had imagined themselves working there. And given their remarkably disparate backgrounds, it would... |
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Category: Innovators
The Dream of Chacalata: Bouldering with Superheroes in EcuadorReal names aren’t important here, but nicknames are. This is, after all, a story about a landscape out of a dream, a sport that doesn’t seem real and a ragtag group of unbelievable characters. So aliases are more appropriate. After all, if you found out that Steve Rogers put out a fire at... |
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Category: Sport
The Magic of Club Parque: Buenos Aires’ legendary soccer clubIn many ways, Club Social y Deportivo Villa del Parque is indistinguishable from any other recreational club in any other neighborhood in Argentina: It’s a place to meet with friends and family, get a bite to eat and, of course, play soccer. The club’s white façade at Marcos Sastre 3260 faces... |
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Category: Sport
Riding the Andes: Backcountry snowboarding in South AmericaJosh Kamler pushes his limits in Termas de Chillan on a backcountry snowboarding tour with Chilean Andean Snow Adventures. |
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Category: Innovators
Impossible is nothing: Start your own international NGOWhere do you picture yourself at age 28? Maybe owning a home and holding a job you like, possibly a Master’s Degree. How about getting your PhD and becoming the founder of two internationally-based nonprofit organizations? Meet Dr. Daniel Weiss. Daniel is an unassuming, outspoken guy from the... |
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Category: Music+Art
Booty and Bootlegs: A diary of Baile Funk in the favelas of Rio de JaneiroA marijuana-sweat stew boils in the walls. It’s 11am. The sun drags on the earth’s belt. Only now are the sounds of life emerging -- cheap TV’s and radios pump the western world through bad reception and small speakers. Dylan’s universal words blare in mono over the boom-crash absurdities of... |
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Category: Travel+Place
Mendoza's SecretIf nature had kept its secret, the city of Mendoza and the surrounding wine country wouldn’t exist. The province of Mendoza, along with parts of San Juan, Entre Rios and San Luis, make up Argentina’s Cuyo region –from the indigenous Huarpe word ‘cuyum’ for ‘the country of deserts’ or... |
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Category: Sustainability
As Long As We Live: A Profile of the Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de MayoThe March There was nothing to signal the start of the march—no drums, no speeches—just the |
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Category: Travel+Place
Searching for Patagonia"Although there was a rich barrio, ironically called Tourism Village, as well as a poor barrio, the vast majority of the pueblo lived in comfortable cabins, their yards lined with Hickory, Apple, and Pear trees, their streets safe for kids to walk at any hour," writes David Miller in this firsthand account of exploring various parts of Patagonia. |
