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Tuesday, October 31, 9:30am
Sala Quetzal, Biblioteca, Relox 50A or Zoom sign up or email secretaryrotarysma@mail.com
free
Tikkun Eco Center Update
Restoring Reservoirs & Reforestation
Guest Speakers:
Victoria Collier & Ben Zion
Tikkun Eco Center is an educational and service organization, focused on building greater food and water security for the subsistence farming communities of rural San Miguel. Over the past twelve years Tikkun has been developing an off-grid permaculture farm with solar and wind energy, adobe buildings, water harvesting, drip irrigation systems, organic gardens and composting. Tikkun also has fruit and olive orchards, fishponds, and chicken farming to effectively manage the grasshopper infestation in the area.
As extreme heat and climate-based drought become a critical crisis for our semi-arid region, Tikkun’s urgent mission is to expand our successful project restoring and reforesting historic rainwater reservoirs.
Rainwater catchment and reforestation are essential to create long term sustainability and resilience to climate disruptions.
Tikkun Eco Center is working with other environmental NGOs and the San Miguel Department of Ecology to restore 20 currently defunct reservoirs in the region and reforest the surrounding areas with 50,000 trees donated by the Municipality. They are coordinating a city-wide effort to remove 10,000 meters of hyacinth plants from the Presa Allende to use as compost and mulch to help new saplings survive.
This project is a simple model of immediate ecological repair that can be replicated and scaled up throughout Mexico.
Victoria and Ben are co-founders and directors of the Tikkun Eco Center in San Miguel de Allende, working to build food and water security and resiliency for our communities in the face of rapidly accelerating climate change.
Join us this Tuesday to hear how Ben and Victoria plan to change the desert into an oasis.
Our meetings take place in the Sala Quetzal in la Biblioteca. Please use the entrance on Relox. You are also invited to join us for breakfast at the Zenteno Cafe before the meeting. Doors open for breakfast at 8:15am. The cost is 150 MXN (cash only please),
If you would prefer to view the meeting via ZOOM, complete the form below and we will send you the link.
Rotary is where neighbors, friends and problem-solvers share ideas, join leaders, and take action to create lasting change. For more information about Rotary, contact our President, Joe Ruffino Jr. at jruffino@rotarysmamidday.org.
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