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Eco-Ecuador Works
Peter visited Bahia in both March and October 2008. His Dispatches in
March include Bahia's Eco-City Mandate 2008(English
& Spanish) and a celebratory dinner with
the landowners who worked with Planet Drum this year. Judy Goldhaft sent a
series of Journal Entries describing her adventures in Bahia and as a
Planet Drum revegetation volunteer. In August Peter investigated
Ecuador's new constitution and its innovations including its
granting “Rights of Nature.”
He also worked with the Bioregional Education classes and produced a
document considering what Planet Drum's Bioregional Sustainability
Institute might include.
2. Reports
from Project Manager, Clay Plager-Unger
In January, 2007 Clay Plager-Unger took over as
Field Project Manager. His enthusiasm and dedication to community
development have added a significant dimension to our work in Bahia over
the past year. He continues as Project Manager until at least December of
2008. During January Muralist Fred Alvarado worked with students to
renovate a school mural. Clay included an inventory of species (in both
English & Spanish) in his letter.
3. Reports
from Bioregional
Education Teacher, Ramon Cedeño Loor:
Ramon Cedeño Loor has been developing Bioregional Education
after-school classes since 2006. Ramon lives in the Maria Auxiliadora neighborhood of Bahia and
teaches at a junior high school. He volunteered with Planet Drum's Bioregional
Education Classes for several months before
becoming Manager. In 2007 Ramon began a revamped series
of Introductory Classes, and in October he initiated an Advanced Class.
The 2008 Introductory Class began April 30 with a revised
Bioregionalismo text book and several of the Advanced students as
volunteer assistants. (The regular school year in Ecuador runs from May until September, and then
again from October until January. There are usually no regular classes
from late January to May.)
Note: Click to see the 2007
Reports (Clay Plager-Unger, Ramon Cedeno Loor
) 2006 Reports (Dan Robbins, Patrick Wylie, Valentina Carminati, Sarah
Couture, Heather Crawford) 2005 Reports (Heather Crawford,
Renée Portanova, Kristen Lansdale, Riccardo Clemente, et al.) 2004 Reports
(Renée Portanova,
Brian Teinert, Elise Braaten) 2003
Reports (Brian Teinert) or 2002
Reports ( Simon Winch, Sara Gomez and Matt, Chris Haaf, Kristen Ford,
Jeff Godden, and Lisa Kundrat) 2001
Reports ( Amy Jewel) 2000
Reports (Carey Knecht, Claire Dibble) or 1999
Reports (Peter Berg, Patricio Tamariz)
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The Ecuadorian coastal city of Bahia de Caraquez has committed itself through
law to become ecological and sustainable. Planet Drum Foundation in San
Francisco, California helped create community awareness of issues there at a
celebration announcing the Ecological City Declaration in January 1999.
Since then, Planet Drum has established a field office and carried out a major
bioregional project to revegetate a city barrio with native trees for erosion
control against future mudslides and to create an urban "wild
corridor." We are currently working
on additional revegetation of hillsides, water supply and purity,
household ecology education, biological sewage treatment, alternative energy,
and others.
You are invited to assist or visit these projects. If you
are interested in doing so, please inform us as soon as possible so that we can
fit you into our schedule. Click here for more information about
volunteering.
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