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Peter visited Bahia during November 2010 and sent this essay about
education and sustainability on the occasion of the initiation of the
Bioregional Sustainability Institute.
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 currently continues as Project Manager. Orlando
Arias has been hired as the Field Project Manager. In April a new apartment was
located to house the project and volunteers.
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. In 2009 classes were expanded to include two other concurrent classes taught by
Nadine Flexhaug and Margarita (Avila) Plager-Unger . The 2010 classes have not yet begun, but will include
three classes with additional teachers. (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.)
Education Reports
Other Years
2011
Reports(Clay Plager-Unger, Ramon Cedeno Loor, Nadine Flexhaug,& Margarita
Avila)
2009 Reports
(Clay Plager-Unger, Ramon Cedeno Loor, Paola Divita & Fabiola Coella)
2008 Reports (Clay
Plager-Unger, Ramon Cedeno Loor)
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)
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)
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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