SUNSEED DESERT TECHNOLOGY
We are a non-formal education project for the social ecological transition in Andalucía, southern Spain.
With 40 years of play, work, learning-by-doing and experimenting, we aim to inspire and involve people from around the world to join the movement towards a culture of people and planet care.
About Us
Low-impact, low technology
We are here to discover how to live a healthy and ecologically responsible life working in harmony with nature. We work on realising, demonstrating and communicating solutions that support a low-impact lifestyle. We aim to close cycles by using solar energy, growing our food, protecting soil from erosion, eating a vegetarian diet, using low-tech energy, and reduce-reuse-recycle. We maintain and develop low-tech solutions though a learning-by-doing methodology.
Experimental community living
Sunseed offers an accessible space for experimentation and co-creation for solutions inline with these practices and philosophies. We experiment, create and learn in those spaces together (rather than being experts in it). In doing so we reject the teacher-student binary - all are invited to participate and contribute and in doing so we strive to create an abundance of learning, collaboration and care. We live in a sociocracy and our community life is very experimental. It can be seen as an entrance for living in an eco-village.
Our environmental justice struggle
An ecocide in existence
River Aguas, providing water to 40 villages in the province of Almeria (including Los Molinos), is endangered due to the super-intensive monoculture olive plantations over-exploiting the aquifer 4 times faster than its capacity to recharge. This ecocide is recognised by the European Tribunal for the Rights of Nature.
The village in which Sunseed sits is in an important conservation area with a unique ecosystem. It is home to wild species, rich formations of gypsum and a host of environmental projects. Río Aguas provides water for roughly 50 people in Los Molinos and around 8000 local inhabitants in Almeria - but gradually our water is disappearing.
Part of the bigger picture
We share and collaborate with the larger sustainability and regeneration network, because we believe that by coming together we can make a bigger impact.
From supporting European exchanges to promoting permaculture principles, we are devoted to bringing about positive change and solidarity.
