ECO-PUEBLO PROJECT & VOLUNTEERING


Many students choose to spend their extra time volunteering with the Pucará Eco-Pueblo

Project: Intag Spanish School

The community is implementing an "eco-pueblo" model for a new neighborhood under construction. Viewing the construction of 10 houses as an opportunity to develop a new model for rural, low-income housing, the people of Pucará are investigating ways to implement sustainable energy technology, ecological design, and permaculture concepts into the long-term planning of the new neighborhood. Plans include:





» Rain-water catchments' systems
» Solar water heating
» Community organic gardens
» Community medicinal gardens
» Native species reforestation and water' source management
» Ongoing recycling program and waste management strategy
» Gray-water catchments that will feed in to a series of Tilapia fish ponds to provide a food and an    economic resource
» The slurry waste from a bio-filtered sewer system will be run through a leach field of planted    bamboo.The bamboo will be used for construction and sold by the community.
» Agro ecology project revolving around organic coffee and food producing shade trees.

Ongoing volunteer needs include help with:

» The maintenance of organic and medicinal gardens
» Work in the community tree nursery and reforestation
» Design and implementation on a variety of agroecology and permaculture projects