Pioneering A Sustainable Future

We all need to come together with creative ideas to ensure a sustainable future for our children. Pioneering A Sustainable Future – Uruguay Builds the First 100% Sustainable Public School in Latin America Montevideo (Uruguay) – In a school in the Uruguayan capital, in the district of Jaureguiberry students produce their own organic food. It is the first sustainable school in Latin America: made with recycled materials, it works with renewable energy, and its students learn to live in harmony with nature and be active World Citizens. Two thousand tires, five thousand glass bottles, two thousand square meters of cardboard and eight thousand aluminum cans. What can you do with it? Believe me: one of the answers would be “a school,” and that is already is a reality standing in Uruguay. Who designed the 270 m² building was the architect Michael Reynolds, an American who in the 60s realized that architecture had abandoned the human being and founded a community to live more intelligently and harmoniously with nature. Michael E. “Mike” Reynolds is an American architect based in New Mexico, known for the design and construction of “Earthship”- passive solar houses. He is a proponent of “radically sustainable living.” He has been a critic of the profession of architecture in general for its adherence to conventional theory and practice, and he advocates the reuse of alternative building materials from waste streams, such as automobile tires, and is known for designs that test the limits of building codes. For 45 years he has created Earthship, specializing in low-cost, sustainable buildings. The school in Jaureguiberry, Uruguay, has solar panels & power plates and windmills to generate energy, as well as vegetable gardens and orchards to produce organic food. The sustainable school can serve about 100 students per year, with a teaching model…

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