AltruVistas’ Blog
How To Teach Wildlife Conservation to Your Children by Jackie Edwards
Photo by Janko Ferlič Global population sizes of vertebrate species have declined by 52 percent over the last 40 years. There’s no denying that man’s destructive impact on the natural world is truly immense. [...]
Cuba Farm Tour – Postponed
In this trip to Cuba, you will travel to Artemisa, Finca Marta, the agroecological farm of Fernando Funes. Visit farmer’s market. Travel from Havana to Viñales Valley, Pinar del Rio. You will also visit with permaculture farmer Roger Santiesteban (who has traveled to California twice now to teach permaculture since his January 2016 talk at Eco-Farm).
Interview w/David Julian, Trip Leader for The Art & Soul of Cuba – A Unique Photo-Cultural Tour
The Art & Soul of Cuba - A Unique Photo-Cultural Tour with David Julian December 13-22, 2017 BOOK THIS TRIP Altruvistas is honored to collaborate on a photography tour to Cuba with David Julian, a [...]
Meet Our New Hawaii Program Director – Lala Nuss!
Join us in welcoming Lala Nuss to the Altruvistas family! Born and raised on the coastal plains of Ewa Beach on the island of Oahu and the slopes of Mauna Kea in Hilo on Hawai’i [...]
Altruvistas’s Response to the Trump Administration’s Cuba Policy
The Trump administration’s recent decision to disallow individual people-to-people travel to Cuba, will fundamentally impact budget or backpack travelers and negatively impact the economy of the private tourism sector in Cuba that has blossomed dramatically [...]
Q&A with Sam Wold, Trip Leader for History & Human Rights in Ghana Educational Tour
Altruvistas recently collaborated with Sam Wold, a history teacher and advisor for the Amnesty International Club at Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois, on an educational tour to Ghana. Wold [...]