San Pancho  Speaks Out about the benefits of sustainable landscape architecture
and other environmental issues

Environment

The benefits of sustainable landscape architecture is becoming more evident in the streets and hills of San Pancho San Francisco Nayarit Mexico, as the residents are moving in a direction to become an exemplary model in preserving their environment, especially for the future generations to come.

A consciousness seems to be spreading throughout the area besides that of the yoga practiced ...  similar to that of many towns in the US, like Westcliffe Colorado, with it's own sustainable ways community, San Pancho seems to be developing a collective attitude of the importance of  designing, building and landscaping in an environmentally responsible fashion.

Las Mariposa's has set an example for many. It is one of the newer developments and it consists of land which once was the local  dumping grounds. The land was cleaned and divided into eight lots, with the intent of creating a development dedicated to respecting the peace and harmony of the land and the people.

Elsa Catherine is adamant about protecting the environment of San Pancho, where she now resides, as well as the rest of the planet.  She has become an advocate for the benefits of sustainable landscape architecture, by educating the people of the community of San Pancho on building with alternative energy sources, as well as living in harmony day to day in a  sustainable way.

Elsa has made one of her goals to help educate the people of San Pancho and the surrounding areas of Sayulita, Bucerias and Puerto Vallarta in many alternative ways of building and living.

Elsa says..." After working many years in the fashion world, I decided to leave my home in Paris, to travel on a sail boat in Polynesia . In this new space, I learned something fundamental, of which I had not truly been aware before: the environment, our planet is in danger.

The temperature of the South Seas is rising at an alarming rate, endangering the life of many atolls; coral, which was once a mainstay of the region, is disappearing; nuclear trials are causing havoc with nature.
 
I moved to San Pancho Mexico a few years ago, yet traveling through the United States also convinced me further that our world is at great risk if we continue to act irresponsibly. We must rise up and defend our planet. With this in mind, I have decided to enter the fray: to defend, with strength and compassion, the fragile ecological balance of the planet.
 
I believe in beauty and for several years I have been active as a silversmith, creating jewelry with natural materials. Now, I also decided to involve myself in defense of the natural world.

To do so, I have become the representative, in San Pancho, of a company called Solar San Miguel International, dedicated to bringing solar and wind-driven solutions to our everyday lives.
 
Prior to this, on my own, I have experimented with solar energy, developing strategies to make it work for me, both in the South Pacific and in Mexico.

My goal is, through community education, to open people’s minds and hearts to solar and eolian (wind) energy, so that, as a community, we can use the benefits of sustainable landscape architecture designed and built with the best interest of the environment in mind. By planning ahead and constructing and landscaping environmentally responsible homes and other community buildings we can begin to hold pollution and waste in check, slow down the greenhouse effect, and respect biodiversity.
 
It is time that we get down to serious work, so that the catastrophic scenarios that an increasing number of eminent scientists are predicting for our future do not come to pass. "

  We need to live consciously, preserve the beauty of our environment by protecting the earth for ourselves and the future generations.
 

Elsa Catherine
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Mexico Telephone : 311 258 45 26
cell :[ 045 ]322 15 20 699