By
locally advising on and contracting execution of ecologically
sound and sustainable solutions, as well as dealing in products
from recycling of wastes, we want to globally contribute to a
better and sustainable quality of life.
The
economic thinking of modern industrial society has, as one of
its basic postulates, the image of a flow, in one direction only,
from one infinity to another: never ending resources at one end
and an infinitely big hole at the other for receiving all kinds
of wastes. Therefore it sees nothing wrong with ever more consumption
of irreplaceable resources and production of ever more wastes.
This
view leads to the careless attitudes that have left us in an absurd
situation: hundreds of thousands, if not millions of hectares
of productive soil are systematically degraded, while, at the
same time, industries and towns waste millions of tons of precious
organic and also mineral materials that should return to the land
from where it came.
For
ecologically sustainable development the natural cycles must be
closed again.
When
faced with a problem of wastes, we do not ask ourselves, how do
we get rid of this undesirable stuff, but, what can we do with
it, where can it be used intelligently, where can it be reintroduced
into the productive process? This leads to simple, cheap, practical
solutions that often are even profitable, not only in terms of
saving costs, but by bringing additional revenue.
With
this aim in mind, we do not look only at the end of the pipe,
we look at the whole productive process. We thus avoid undesirable
mixtures and contaminations. In the process we have been able
to produce valuable inputs for agriculture and industry.
Domestic
effluents, sometimes industrial ones, are treated in biological
lagoons, with either floating plants or, in cases where we need
more compact solutions, in root treatment beds. The technology
is simple, cheap and integration with the natural landscape is
such that it promotes biological diversity.
When
we do landscaping we carry on a dialogue with the existing ecotopes
and our work is done in an evolutionary, not in an aggressive
way. Again, the results are usually much more pleasant than could
have been imagined at the beginning. We make maximum use of Nature's
capacity for regeneration.
In
forestry we promote multiple use and ecological integration.
Our
programs of environmental education promote ecological awareness
in communal participation environmentally conscious citizenship.
