BUILDING AN ECOLOGICAL NETWORK IN THE GREATER TIKAL REGION
We seek to promote a cohesive lake network, to form a united collective community vision, increased multi- Sector communication, strategic partnerships, and circles of support. We seek to work in cooperation with Policy makers, other Civil Society Organisations, local leaders, creatives, innovators and community members who seek to propagate the well being of the lake community as a whole.
Photocredit Sandra Sebastian
THE WATERSHED
Lake and Community Health
We are currently addressing Garbage, Glyphosate, Household detergents, Chemical Fertilisers, Sewage, in collaboration with our Community, and local authorities.
Pending to address
CLEAN DRINKING WATER
We have begun activly promoting
COMMUNITY SOLAR POWER FOR THE PETEN
RENEWABLE ENERGIES
Max Leiva
GOING GREEN WITH ADOBE
The abundant local supply of already available clay is just shouting for everyone to quit using cement and go green again, building adobe sourcing from the massive amounts of clay right under our feet- for free- And will help reduce migration! Most of family members who go to work in the USA are doing so to be able send money home to "build a real house" made of block and cement which is fairly expensive (and environmentally unfriendly) . We have international professionals who are ready to come to give us natural building workshops.
CREATING CAUSEWAYS THAT ALLOW SPIECIES TO RETURN
The local lands we live on between the lake and the protected Mayan biosphere borderline used to be pristine jungle. They have been almost entirely cleared over the past 30 years for cattle and mono crop production. Some areas are already beginning to face desertification.
We carry the responsibility to rewild nature, protect the local biodiversity, wildlife, to create new forms of abundance that are in alignment with nature, and to create a model example of living sustainably that will help others to follow.