regenerative

Viene Pronto!

We have bueen busy in Chile working on many and various projects as we learn about the application of regenerative design science. We are documenting our process in order to make our experiences useful for others, and as a way to demonstrate our ability to make things happen. Here you can see some of our work. We intend this section to provide a searchable information resource. Have a look around here in this google map.

Ecoescuela El Manzano

- Houses and Appropriate Technology

- Waste Management & Nutirent Maintenance

- Food Process Plant for Fair Trade

- Intensive Gardens

- Mediterranean-Temperate Food Forest

- Agroforestry

- Small Animal Systems

- Water Systems

- Ecological Restoration

- Broadscale Carbon Farming-Cropping-Grazing

- Farm Forestry 

A PATTERN LANGUAGE

Summary of a book by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel. Published by Oxford University Press.

The original book contains much essential detail behind each of the following patterns and is recommended reading.

We begin with that part of the language which defines a town or community. These patterns can never be "designed" or "built" in one fell swoop- but patient piecemeal growth, designed in such a way that every individual act is always helping to create or generate these larger global patterns, will, slowly and surely, over the years, make a community that has these global patterns in it.

It has been said that we are the most useless generation that ever walked the earth (Hopkins, 2008). Our cosy western lifestyles have led us to reliance on the supermarket, and food transported thousands of kilometres around the planet. As we have chased economic growth at all costs, we have rejected a lifestyle where we had to take care of our own needs, and many of the basic skills that go along with resilient simple living. We forgot once common knowledge, common sense, like how to cook and preserve, to grow our own food, build our own homes, how to fix things when they break, how to live in community.