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(“I hope so!” A common Spanish expression obviously derived at the time of the Moorish occupation from Arabic, “As Allah will have it.”) Leonidas Plaza—Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador The morning of Revegetation Day I began with a round of sweeping up crickets, the mound only slightly smaller than the day before. There’s a barrel of […]
Read MoreLeonidas Plaza This may be completely to the side of everything else that is going on with the eco-city process in Bahía de Caráquez, or it may be part of the core. I’m too personally involved to know. It has to do with the close-to-the-bone experience of occupying Planet Drum’s new office/apartment in Leonidas Plaza. […]
Read MoreBahía de Caráquez, Ecuador The rainy season seems to have begun in earnest. A light sprinkle two days ago may have been the actual starting point, and last night’s downpour that continues into the morning appears to remove any question about an end to the annual coastal drought. The revegetation of Maria Auxiliadora barrio can […]
Read MoreEcuador is exiting the past in Quito, and it is coming into important aspects of the future in Bahia de Caraquez. Last night, national television showed the capitol with lights glaring into packed throngs in the street, smiling men and women wearing ponchos and indigenous hats, soldiers with rifles slung from their shoulders walking casually […]
Read MoreEco-Realism about Water, Food, CitiesRaise the Stakes Anthology II EditorialRAISE THE STAKES Did Just That, Peter Berg (Final issue and recap of RTS history) ArticlesIssues/Insights Cities/Urban Sustainability Water Bioregional Agriculture Special Report:Ecuador Green City Revisited, August ’99, Peter Berg Announcements Reviews: Riffs, Reads & ReelsReads Reviewed by Peter Berg Reviewed by Beatrice Briggs Reviewed by […]
Read MoreThis is Peter Berg’s report from the first year of Planet Drum Foundation’s involvement with Bahia de Caraquez, an eco-city in Ecuador. When the people of a small urban area decide to pass a law declaring an “ecological city,” it is an unusual and laudable act of public dedication. If there are already some extensive […]
Read MoreBahia de Caraquez, Ecuador Real happy to say that the meetings with the Eco-Bahia Learning Center are proving to be of execution of things to be done and not just a bla bla bla meeting. Yesterday was a wonderful day. One of the Fanca settlements, remember the one on the right hand side on the […]
Read MoreEcuador Eco-Gathering Report #7San Francisco, California It’s a few days after the vernal equinox in San Francisco, a date when the equal length of days and nights is the same here as it is all year in Ecuador. How remarkable to find anything similar to what happened there just three weeks ago. The festivities for […]
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