{"id":49306,"key":"Practivistas_projects","title":"Practivistas projects","latest":{"id":1208461,"timestamp":"2025-11-28T00:11:54Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"The following are selected projects from the Practivistas Program, an appropriate Technology and Spanish immersion in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. We are a group of U.S. and Dominican students working together with various community members to co-create sustainable solutions. See the current [[Practivistas Dominicana Program]] for more.\n\n== Dominican Republic (2011-Current) ==\n\n<gallery caption=\"Practivistas Dominicana Projects\" widths=200>\n\nFile:Building_a_bottle_wall10.JPG| La Yuca ecoladrillo schoolroom ([[La Yuca ecoladrillo schoolroom 2011|2011]])\n\nFile:LYfloor2.JPG|La Yuca schoolroom renovation ([[La Yuca schoolroom renovation|2013]])\n\nFile:LaYucaRainwater2012-oldfirstflush.jpg|La Yuca rainwater catchment ([[La Yuca rainwater 2014|2014]]) ([[La Yuca rainwater catchment 2013|2013]]) ([[La Yuca rainwater catchment 2012|2012]]) ([[La Yuca rainwater catchment 2011|2011]])\n\nFile:LaYucaSolar.jpg|La Yuca small scale renewable energy ([[La Yuca renewable energy 2014|2014]]) ([[La Yuca small scale renewable energy 2012|2012]]) ([[La Yuca small scale renewable energy 2011|2011]])\n\nFile:LMMallaOnTheOutside.jpg|Las Malvinas ecoladrillo schoolroom ([[Las Malvinas ecoladrillo schoolroom|2012]])\n\nFile:Las Malvinas Botica Popular News Channel 5.JPG|Las Malvinas hullkrete botica popular ([[Las Malvinas Botica Popular 2015|2015]]) ([[Hullkrete and fiber-crete|2014]]) ([[Las Malvinas botica popular hullkrete 2013|2013]])\n\nFile:2013ecoladrillo1.JPG|Las Malvinas botica popular ecoladrillo ([[Las Malvinas botica popular ecoladrillo 2013|2013]])\n\nFile:Connectingtinaco2014.jpg|Las Malvinas rainwater catchment ([[Las Malvinas rainwater 2014|2014]]) ([[Las Malvinas rainwater feasibility study 2014|2014 Feasibility]]) ([[Las Malvinas Rainwater Catchment System|2013]])\n\nFile:SDC11892.JPG|Ghetto2Garden solar power ([[Ghetto2Garden renewable energy 2014|2014]]) ([[Ghetto2Garden solar power|2013]])\n\nFile:Prototypebag.jpg|Arroyo Norte waste plastic innovations ([[Arroyo Norte waste plastic innovation|2015]]) ([[Arroyo Norte sustainable market materials|2014]])\n\nFile:LasMalvinas Destacamento finalwall1.jpg|Las Malvinas destacamento ([[Las Malvinas hullkrete 2015|2015]]) ([[Las Malvinas destacamento|2014]])\n\nFile:Final Community Shade2.jpg|Las Malvinas community shade structure ([[Las Malvinas community center shade|2014]])\n\nFile:IMG_8457.JPG|Solar workshops ([[Practivistas solar 2015|2015]])\n\n</gallery>\n\n== Chiapas, Mexico (2010) ==\n\n<gallery mode=nolines widths=200>\n\nFile:100 1328.JPG|<big>'''[[HSU Chiapas improved cookstoves]]'''</big><br>Improved cookstoves at Otros Mundos and in a rural community<br>(en [[HSU Chiapas estufas ahorradoras|español]])\n\nFile:EndOfSystemGroundView.png|<big>'''[[HSU Chiapas micro hydro feasibility study]]'''</big><br>Microhydro feasibility study in a few rural communities<br>(en [[HSU Chiapas estudio sobre la factibilidad de microhídro|español]])\n\nFile:AlambreColgando.JPG|<big>'''[[HSU Chiapas Windbelt ASE]]'''</big><br>Windbelts at Otros Mundos<br>(en [[HSU Chiapas Windbelt Español|español]])\n\nFile:Biodigester diagramed copy.jpg|<big>'''[[HSU Chiapas biodigester]]'''</big><br>Biodigester at a demo house in San Cristobal\n\nFile:DSCF2406.JPG|<big>'''[[HSU Chiapas rainwater catchment]]'''</big><br>Rainwater catchment systems at a demo house and in a rural community<br>(en [[HSU Chiapas captación de agua de lluvia|español]])\n\n</gallery>\n\n== Parras de la Fuente, Mexico (2004-2008) ==\n\nSee [[Parras]] for more on the 2004 to 2008 projects.\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Practivistas]]\n[[Category:Practivistas Dominicana Program]]"}