Sustainable Communities

 

The territorial extension and the characteristic of Latin Americas geography often isolate towns and villages. This geographical dispersion hinders the supply of basic public services such as water, electricity, gas and sewage in traditional, centrally managed models. Alternatives methods are therefore required.

Sustainable communities contribute to solve this problem by recycling the organic waste generated by its own populations. Based on "equal-zero-emission" and "sanitary ecology" schems the communities reuse organic waste as input in agriculture, cattle breeding, aquaculture and for the production of electricity. The circle closes with the use of this energy for heating and water treatment facilities. Sustainable communities therefore improve the life quality of their constituencies, drive economic growth while balancing the ecosystem.

 

For our project we will document on projects of sustainable communities in Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Brazil.