Sustainability first: How Riverside Contributes
Here at Riverside Ecoliving, we pride ourselves on centering sustainability in everything we do. Surrounded by the sounds of nature, it’s impossible to walk through our campus without feeling what the natural world can offer for our mind, body and spirit.
From the inception of Riverside, we focused on three key principles: building a sustainably designed community, helping guests achieve their wellness goals, and uplifting our local community. To keep us focused on these goals, we aligned our mission with three UN Sustainable Development Goals: Sustainable Cities & Communities, Good Health & Wellbeing, and No Poverty.
Our Sustainable Design:
When constructing Riverside Ecoliving, we focused on using the most sustainable and local materials like bamboo, to minimize our ecological footprint. Along the way we took every chance to include more sustainable design, like our solar-powered heating system or our rainwater tanks to counteract increasing water shortages.
Beyond construction, our vision was to create a completely circular community by utilizing indigenous permaculture practices and ensuring circularity in our food & waste systems.
We wouldn’t be called Riverside without our river. Our waste filtration system ensures none of the byproduct from our operations end up in the local water streams and in fact can be reused into fertilizing agents for our soil.
Our soil is what powers our regenerative garden. There, we grow fresh and regional goods leveraging soil health management practices & sustainable farming techniques. These freshly harvested goods are used to feed our guests healthy and local meals. Leftover food scraps are then also used to fertilize our soils to continue the cycle. By avoiding industrial fertilizer we ensure that no chemicals or additives are introduced into the environment which have devastating effects on natural biodiversity.
Our Health & Wellness Offerings:
Through countless studies and our own experiences, we know that our mood and stress levels improve when spending time outside and in nature. It naturally lowers your heart rate and blood pressure, creating rippling impacts throughout your body.
Desk-based employees can spend much of the day indoors on a computer, which can impact your ability to focus, and spending just 20 minutes in the open air does the same thing as one cup of coffee, just without any of the less-welcome side effects!
Riverside Eco Living also provides opportunities to nourish your mind and body through our daily yoga practice, weekly group meditation sessions and nutritious food for fuel. In addition to our wellness offerings, guests join us weekly for excursions to continue to immerse themselves in nature, the local community, and Colombian history.
Our Local Communities:
Beyond offering employment opportunities to our local community, we are working to address a need across the Colombian countryside: internet access. As the only spot in our community with 24/7 high-speed internet access, it’s our responsibility to open our doors for folks to access opportunities online.
We’re continuing to grow our internet bandwidth paired with educational skills training to help advance the opportunities for those in the region. Namely, with farming a core practice here, we want to continue to share and innovate our use of internet-connected agricultural tracking systems and online marketplace for goods and services.
Our local educational programs are still being developed, but we continue to center the commitment to the community in everything we do and encourage our guests to support the local community throughout their time here.
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