In a continuing series, Fernanda De La Cerda, of the University of Texas at El Paso, blogs about her experience on a SEEDS field trip to Chiapas, Mexico.=20 =20 " . . . if indigenous people in the poorest state of Mexico are able to sustain themselves and protect their environment, we can do it too. They helped me regain the strength to keep trying, and this was the biggest gift I got from this field trip: hope." =20 Read her essay, and others from students on this trip, at www.esa.org/esablog =20 And send your musings, thoughts, and sources of ecological delight and consternation to [EMAIL PROTECTED] =20 -- Clifford Duke, Coordinator, ESA News and Views=20 =20
