Eco-Ecuador
Collaboration for a Long-Term Sustainable City
Planet Drum Foundation purchased land outside the city of Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador to expand the Bioregional Education Projects to include adults and college students. In 2010 Peter Berg wrote A School to Retrieve the Future, an essay describing the newly initiated BSI—the vision behind the Institute and it’s curriculum. (Note: this is no longer available. It is included as archival historical information.) A Call for […]
Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador These are life-altering times across the planet for practically all major aspects of human endeavor. Arching over the shifts that are taking place in social, political, economic, and cultural areas that all of us are experiencing is the urgent need to recognize and accommodate our species’ utter dependence on the viability of Earth’s natural systems. It is a mutual concern shared […]
September 20-October 6, 2010 The dry season work continues. A few light drizzles have kept the trees moist enough to avoid having to water. In fact, the trees planted this past year look healthy enough so as to practically not need any manual watering at all. This is promising for the potential expansion of the revegetation project, since watering planted trees is such a time […]
August 25-September 20, 2010 Work on the new site behind the greenhouse continues. It is a rather large site with many trails to clear with machetes. The trails weave through existing foliage and around the contours of the land, making as much of the terrain as possible accessible for planting. At the greenhouse, the seedbeds of Ceibo and Jaboncillo have germinated and the seedlings were […]
August 5-24, 2010 We began breaking ground on the first revegetation site for the upcoming rainy season, 2011. The site is located on the hillside above the greenhouse and University Catolica. It is a large site that connects the space between a 2008 revegetation site with a site planted by Heather Crawford in 2005, which borders on a site from 2009 and 2010. Once planted, […]
July 21 – August 4, 2010 While it remains somewhat humid, the dry season is noticeably creeping in. Plants and foliage are making their annual transformation from green to brown, yet the occasional precipitation helps out the trees we’ve planted. Volunteer traffic has been light, but hovers around 2-4 volunteers at a time. There’s Elodie, from France, and Arian, who is receiving University credit for […]
Midterm reports – English(Click here for Spanish/Español)Group C, Margarita Plager-Unger Photos below. May 12th, 2010Theme – Bioregions The first day was a new experience for everyone. On the faces of the children I could see curiosity, happiness and uneasiness because many did not know what bioregionalism is or why they were there. One student immediately grabbed my attention, Bombila. He was very angry with all the other […]
Bioregional Education Program Progress Report 2010Group B Profesor: Nadine FlexhaugAssistant: Roberto Rodriguez Photos below. The students began to arrive to the first class and the start of the new year in the Bioregional education program with excitement and anticipation. The students were enthusiastic about the excursions to come, meeting their professors, and to hear about all the new things they would soon learn. We chose a nice […]
Ramon CedeñoProfessor – Group ABioregional Education ProgramPlanet Drum Foundation Midterm Report – English(Click here for Spanish/Español)July 6th, 2010 We have now begun the classes with new teachers and class assistants. It’s normal for everyone to see the many happy faces of young students, who are part of the change that we want. It’s beautiful to see so many boys and girls. This year has exceeded our […]
June 8 – July 2, 2010 Although the dry season weather has set in, there are still significant quantities of moisture floating around. It’s chilly and overcast most of the time; the sun only comes out occasionally. But despite this, it also sprinkles every once in a while. Some have described it as an invernillo, a mini-winter (rainy season). Most would say the weather has been […]