Alley cropping is a fantastic alternative to slash and burn. Using the native plant inga edulis we grow it in alleys 4 metres wide and 1 metre between trees. This system regenerates old disused cattle fields and prevents farmers deforesting land looking for fertile soil. In...
Girl Power - Myself and Ivonne Macias ( The Committee of Human Rights, Shushufindi, Ecuador) showing how its done. I was the first person to build rainwater systems in this part of the Ecuadorean Amazon, to help those most in need and who are drinking contaminated...
A typical looking amount of rubbish on the beaches on the pacific coast of Colombia. From the rubbish we found on the beach and local resources of clay, sand and coconut fiber to make cob we built a shelter and bench. When working with cob it is...
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Eco-bricks are empty plastic bottle filled with inorganic rubbish. Over the years I have helped to build benches, walls, a restaurant, school, a health centre (as seen in the photo) and inspired numerous other buildings. An international group of problem solvers came together and formed the Global...
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Sadly one of the most contaminated places on Earth is the Amazon. Texaco, now Chevron, left almost 1000 unlined toxic waste pits in the jungle. 30,000 indigenous people won a class action lawsuit against them but they have still refused to pay see http://chevrontoxico.com/about/...
