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Environmental Education Program
The deforestation of the Sierra Madre created such serious problems that engaging the public will for reforestation is a matter of survival. The first step is to help people awaken from the attitude of indifference to the natural world to a new wonder for the complexity of the web of life in this magnificent watershed.
Promoting Recycling and Upcycling
July, 2009 - At Sexto Sol we are working on new ways to promote recycling as a way to reduce solid waste to create jobs. Products can be made from discarded plastics which currently are a serious problem throughout Mexico and Central America. We hope to partner with municipal governments that can supply the start up capital to fund production of things such as the brooms shown in the second video below.
Sexto Sol Projects:
Sexto Sol has distributed over 6000 native tree seedlings for reforestation from our nursery at Tierra Linda School in three years. Local children who come to help in the tree nursery planted many of these seeds for these seedlings. Volunteers who helped produce tree seedlings: Mary Lacques, Jill Howdyshell, Jake McLean, and Amanda Mortl.
The Parque Ecológico open space is located next to Tierra Linda School where Sexto Sol is creating a nature park that will serve to teach the public about the natural history of the region and the process of regeneration of damaged land. The City of Motozintla purchased the property for this purpose. With our supervision, local and international volunteers (total 27) have planted 450 pines, and built trails and erosion control structures. As plants recolonize, the bird population has increased notably. See Jake’s poem at the end of this page. Special thanks to Cormac Lawler, Jake McLean, Jonathan Jensen, Scotty Kellogg, Cleo Woelfe-Erskine, Marcel Van der, SOCAMA, Eleaseo, Nulfo, BRIASA and friends.
Local children come to Tierra Linda School for “science class” or for Equipo Ecológico (Ecology Team) work such as planting pine seeds in the tree nursery or picking up trash. When high school and university classes come to the School we try to inspire them to see that they are important actors in solving environmental problems. We created a Yahoo! Group for these young people called Mundo Posible for internet-based dialog about environmental issues and solutions toward creating a more sustainable Sierra and world.
Radio Difusora La B.B. We provide assistance to a radio station broadcasting to 17 remote communities by securing taped “spots” with environmental messages such as the importance of not burning the cornfield.
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Experience A sharp machete the blades of weeds and grass alike are no match the path is more apparent now but the denuded landscape it divides is struggling to regain its former splendor the destiny of each try – a mystery save those root bound and orphaned in plastic the mother’s love nurtures her river of life man diverts televisions preach as fertile soil passes by in the streets where does the path lead? ah, but did you see those nurtured pines they are growing there in the shade of weeds and espinas and they are the future of this parque ecologico and that path is the path of experience not ending, taking us on a ride much like the Ferris wheel but far richer. Jake McLean, 2003 Volunteer September, 2003 |