We are working towards a sustainable future in the rainforest of Ecuador and we need help! A few years ago, a few of us—ecology, economics, and business graduates founded a non-profit organization called Third Millennium Alliance. We raised some money and bought a lot of land in a critically endangered rainforest and established an ecological reserve. There was a small patch of previously degraded land right in the middle where we have built an innovative and surprisingly comfortable research station out of bamboo, by hand. Immediately surrounding the house we are designing/growing/building a living laboratory of sustainable resource management (i.e. permaculture).
Here, and in the neighboring community of Camarones, we are working for a locally appropriate model of sustainable living. Our goal for ourselves is 100% food self-sufficiency within ten years. For the surrounding communities we seek economically and ecologically sustainable alternatives to logging, hunting, and cattle ranching, which are the major threats to this endangered habitat. We are now accepting interns for our Spring 2013 session, which runs from Tues, April 02 though Tues, May 28. We usually have some projects and goals that we count on interns to help us accomplish and we've just updated our suggested project list - check it out here: http://3malliance.org/index.php?id=536 It's also common that applicants suggest a project based on their own particular skills and interests, so if you've got something else burning a little fire in your heart, feel free to propose your own! Please find general internship information here: http://3malliance.org/index.php?id=320
