November 20, 2004: Headlines: COS - Honduras: The Coloradoan: The caring for people bridges over to caring about the environment said Drew Stoll (Honduras 1990-93), a landscape architect in the Fort Collins office of the design firm EDAW Inc.
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November 20, 2004: Headlines: COS - Honduras: The Coloradoan: The caring for people bridges over to caring about the environment said Drew Stoll (Honduras 1990-93), a landscape architect in the Fort Collins office of the design firm EDAW Inc.
The caring for people bridges over to caring about the environment said Drew Stoll (Honduras 1990-93), a landscape architect in the Fort Collins office of the design firm EDAW Inc.
The caring for people bridges over to caring about the environment said Drew Stoll (Honduras 1990-93), a landscape architect in the Fort Collins office of the design firm EDAW Inc.
The caring for people bridges over to caring about the environment said Drew Stoll (Honduras 1990-93), a landscape architect in the Fort Collins office of the design firm EDAW Inc.
Stoll, 40, was a Peace Corps volunteer in northern Honduras and then worked as a trainer in Central America for another three years. He applied for the Peace Corps on a lark, he said, more interested in developing his job-interviewing skills than service.
"I felt it was going to be a real adventure," he said. "I entered not knowing who I was going to be when I got out of the Peace Corps."
His six years in the Peace Corps proved to be life-changing, he said. The experience gave him a focus for a career in design and planning with an emphasis on conservation and sustainability.
With a degree in recreation resources management from the University of Wisconsin, he worked along the northern coast of Honduras near the little town of Tela. He helped establish the country's first national park and a system for protecting sensitive natural areas.
After returning from Central America with his wife, Angelica, who is from Tela, Stoll received a master's degree in landscape architecture from the University of Florida.
Promoting environmental protection has become his work and passion, Stoll said. His efforts include pro bono work in Chile to help create a sustainability plan for Pucon, a town of 20,000 in a setting similar to that of Estes Park.
The cultural-exchange aspect of the Peace Corps is as important as the technical assistance volunteers supply to developing countries, Stoll said.
The exchange goes both ways, with the goal of promoting an understanding of America in foreign countries and opening the eyes of Americans to the other cultures.
Next summer, Drew and Angelica Stoll will take a group of families from Fort Collins to Tela to experience its culture and people.
"When that happens, my Peace Corps experience will come full circle," he said.
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