Sustainable Design
Sustainability throughout all projects from buildings, to farming, to the programs that we run is essential and key for success. We aim to design our buildings using sustainable design techniques allowing us to minimizes both the initial environmental cost of building (through reducing materials waste and using sustainable products) and the long-term environmental impact of the building, minimizing the ecological footprint and improving both the surrounding natural environment and the lives of those using the building. We will do this by:
Infrastructure and Engineering
Simple improvements of Infrastructure can drastically improve a communities ability to function, examples of this are constructing adequate roads leading to communities, with aims of improving a community's access to transportation, drastically lessening travel time to amenities such as medical facilities, food markets, schools, and the nearest town. Additionally will focus on:
Sustainability throughout all projects from buildings, to farming, to the programs that we run is essential and key for success. We aim to design our buildings using sustainable design techniques allowing us to minimizes both the initial environmental cost of building (through reducing materials waste and using sustainable products) and the long-term environmental impact of the building, minimizing the ecological footprint and improving both the surrounding natural environment and the lives of those using the building. We will do this by:
- Storing energy collected from solar panels and provide electricity for the village
- Designing municipal buildings capable of serving as emergency shelters in natural disasters
- Designing houses to be built as a self sufficient structures using passive heating and cooling techniques
- Teaching community members how to build Rain water harvesting tanks in places where access to water is low
Infrastructure and Engineering
Simple improvements of Infrastructure can drastically improve a communities ability to function, examples of this are constructing adequate roads leading to communities, with aims of improving a community's access to transportation, drastically lessening travel time to amenities such as medical facilities, food markets, schools, and the nearest town. Additionally will focus on:
- Paving roads to rural areas
- Building necessary amenities like health clinics, schools and waste management systems
- Improving community access to nearby natural resources