Our first principle: Be practical. We begin at the level of life itself: serve the natural environment. We are located within a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve with almost seventy percent of our land under forest protection. These efforts are helping regenerate the watershed of Savegre, our local valley. Constantly learning, improving, and sharing our hard-earned wisdom, providing a living model of sustainable community to inspire restorative action in other regions of the world. We consider ourselves at the beginning of a journey into a new paradigm of reparative terraforming—to alter the fate of our Earth in favor of Life.

We are creating wildlife corridors and sanctuaries, protecting the many species of birds and other beings for whom this land is home. We are experimenting with innovative practices to guarantee food security through agricultural biodiversity as well as dietary modification for healthier and more sustainable living. We are learning from the past and creating new approaches for the future with off-grid construction methods as well as water and soil protection with improved composting toilets, pruning and mulching, and lombricomposting, in fact, we are re-thinking every settled practice in waste management.