A crash course in changing the world.
The highest priority for the city of Cochabamba has been maintaining a reforestation strategy of the northeaster mountain. The wh*** landmark became a barren landscape since the decade of 1970’s, after some irresponsible authorities turned the beautiful scenery into a eucalyptus desert; you all know that soil gets eroded when eucalyptus plantations are not responsibly managed. Slash and burn is the WORST agricultural strategy.
Reforestation of the mountain with native trees has been the hardest task, but the effort was worthwhile; we managed to turn the city activities to the long lost natural environment offered by the forest.The municipality has worked hard to develop an efficient (eco-friendly) public transport system which is so well-connected that ultimately has allowed us to settle a Park & Ride facility.
3 Built Environment:The construction of energy inefficient suburban neighbourhoods was banned as soon as the Council came acquainted of the negative impact of these sprawls.
Organic product marketplaces have been created on several points, near the sources where the fresh fruit and vegetables are grown.
Cochabamba’s CT&C is also in charge of running the Network of Acquaintances for Material Flow. This network consists on a database which doc**ents existing and emerging commercial
activities. This database is used to facilitate the transference of discarded material which would be suitable to be incorporated in the production process of another business.
It is easy and cheap to grow assorted vegetables in Cochabamba, the weather is excellent all year round. This geographic place was the most important granary back on the times of the Inca Empire. Several droughts caused by erosion and deforestation in the modern era have endangered the productivity of this blessed agricultural land.
Cochabamba has been optimising the use of water since the water wars back in 2000. Since then, the population became very sensitised on this respect.
Waste management policies had to be put in place. Back in the 1980’s the city did not produce big amounts of non-biodegradable domestic waste.Luckily, one of the traditional customs of the Bolivian average woman is to systematically gather and store jars and tins to re-use them for other purposes instead of disposing of them.
Now that droughts are over, thanks to the positive effect of reforestation the normal water cycle was successfully re-established: Trees produce rain. which on the heights fall down as snow, snow patches gradually melt and this guarantees water for all year round.Cochabamba’s CT&C has also invested considerable amounts of money to create and maintain a sustainable commercial environment for small and big businesses.
A really clever decision was entrust the tasks of supervision, promotion and other time-consuming activities of every project on a cluster of retired people who volunteered for the job.
The citizens have also organised themselves, by means of the City Council Assembly, regarding the imposition of fines and sanctions to be applied in order to control and guarantee compliance of “Cochabamba’s Integrated System of Sustainable Development”.Finally, an "Independent Agency for Information and Technological Support" was created 3 years ago, with sponsorship from the Inter-American Development Bank. The AITS is focussed on providing advise and logistic & technical
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