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Podcast: Gap Year Radio
Episode: Ep. 404 Focusing on Environmental Sustainability with Gap Year Alum Ivy Jones
Description: Gap year alum Ivy Jones spent her gap year expanding her knowledge and experience in environmental sustainability.
She began her year with a Thinking Beyond Borders semester spent in Guatemala and Costa Rica where she learned about education systems, sustainable agriculture and eco-tourism. Inspired by her experience with TBB, she dove deeper into environmental issues with Ecoswell, a grassroots organization based in Peru. There she assisted the organization in projects to support eco-tourism, reforestation and sustainable living. Her gap year informed her course of study at college and changed the ways she lives her daily life in order to have...