Bioregional Education
April-June 2013 Field Report During the beginning of April, planting the 2013 Bellavista revegetation site with children from the community was completed. While delivering trees to the site, fruit trees were also given directly to community members for planting at their houses.This is the last Planet Drum (PD) revegetation site to be planted this year since the rainy season has wrapped up and the dry […]
November 2012 – January 2013 Field Report There have been a number of developments related to the Planet Drum projects here in Bahía in the past few months. In November, we received a visit from Judy, Planet Drum Director (since Peter Berg passed away in July 2012), her daughter Ocean, and grandchildren Florence and Stelli. While they were here, Bahía unveiled a plaque honoring Peter […]
August – October, 2012 Keibo Oiwa, long time friend of Planet Drum and fellow collaborator in the original Eco-city movement, returned to Bahia for a short visit. The first time he was here in 1999, Bahia had recently suffered from massive mudslides due to heavy El Niño phenonmenon rains. Keibo was delighted to see how green and full of vegetation the hillsides looked now. In […]
In the summer of 2012, I traveled with thirteen other students and one professor to Ecuador to learn about bioregionalism and sustainable city building. Our destination was Bahia de Caraquez, a coastal city that met with disaster in 1997 and 98, experiencing heavy El Nino rain that resulted in a massive landslide followed by an earthquake. In 1999, the city decided to rebuild with a […]
Orlando goes over class materials with a group of students from the Montufar school. Photo by Clay Plager-Unger. Ramon teaching from the Bioregionismo booklet. Photo by Clay Plager-Unger. Michelle Jensen, a Planet Drum volunteer, participates in a class with the Montufar group. Photo by Clay Plager-Unger. Margarita and her class assistant Abraham leading their Bioregionalismo students from the Genesis School. In the background, a large group of tricicleros […]
Ramon Cedeño LoorDirector, Bioregional Education ProgramPlanet Drum FoundationBioregionalism Final Report 2011 & Program Overview – English(Click here for Spanish/Español) The Bioregional Education Program, now 6 years old, is one of the most important initiatives that have been implemented in Bahía de Caráquez, the first Ecological City in Ecuador. The program works with different educational institutions and over the years the youth that participates has developed a strengthened […]
Planet Drum FoundationBioregional Education ProgramReport #2, July 2011 – English(Click here for Spanish/Español)Teacher: David Mera Villareal On Wednesday, July 6th, in the ‘Park of the Mothers’ at 3:30 in the afternoon with the students of the Fanny de Baird School we began the Bioregionalism class with the theme for the day: the flora of our bioregion. The students paid close attention and were interested in the […]
Planet Drum FoundationBioregional Education ProgramReport #2, July 2011 – English(Click here for Spanish/Español)Teacher: Margarita Avila Napa [aka Plager-Unger] Today’s theme is Birds. We begin with a handout prepared by Planet Drum. Each student read a part of the article. Then we analyzed the text and shared ideas. Afterwards, we answered the questions. Everyone is present today. Even though my students are the oldest of all the […]
Ramon CedeñoDirector, Bioregional Education ProgramPlanet Drum Foundation‘Soil’ Report #2, 2011 – English(Click here for Spanish/Español) Before beginning, allow me to observe how the students always run around and play in the park before class begins. The students who get to the park earliest run to greet and hug us when we arrive to the park. This week’s theme was ‘Soil’, but we started off by reviewing what […]
Planet Drum FoundationBioregional Education ProgramReport #1, May 2011 – English (Click here for Spanish/Español)Teacher: David Mera Villareal In the following report I, Professor David Mera Villareal, will explain the work that I have done with the Ninth Year students of the Nation High School ‘Fanny de Baird’ during the month of May. In the first week we covered the basics of Bioregionalismo. We learned about the […]