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Casa Pueblo

Casa Pueblo

Experience a unique blend of culture and sustainability with guided tours, craft shops, a butterfly garden, and solar-powered facilities in a vibrant community.

OUR EXPERIENCES
The visit includes a tour of the development and achievements of Casa Pueblo through community self-management. The tour includes an interpreted guide through different areas of interest such as the craft shop, library, historical photo gallery, conservation programs including the renewable energy systems, plant nursery, and butterfly garden, and the laboratory. Guests can visit Café Madre Isla, a coffee roasting, grinding, and packaging plant onsite. Travelers are also able to purchase coffee to take home as well. Meeting and exhibition rooms, Radio Casa Pueblo, a solar cinema, art gallery, library, craft store, antique room, hydroponic system, butterfly garden, Bosque del Pueblo, Bosque Escuela La Olimpia, and a camping area are part of Casa Pueblo's community projects.

ABOUT US
Casa Pueblo is a community-owned organization that is committed to appreciating and protecting natural, cultural, and human resources. Casa Pueblo's efforts have driven practices for local community management of conserving natural resources that seek to fulfill a global responsibility in facing global warming.

OUR IMPACT
Its main facility was solarized in 1999. Right after category 5 Hurricane Maria (September 20, 2017), Casa Pueblo served as an energy oasis for the community. The historical actions towards sustainable development were tested, and almost by default, Casa Pueblo showed resilience and preparedness to quickly launch emergency responses and adapt to new challenges. After Maria, the central mountain area was the last 30% to re-establish the electrical system. Adjuntas is one of the poorest mountain municipalities with 64% of its population at poverty levels and 17% over the age of 65. Casa Pueblo has transformed the energy landscape of the municipality of Adjuntas as a reference of what can be done to confront Puerto Rico's fossil fuel dependency and to increase adaptation to climate and social vulnerabilities. During the months following Hurricane Maria, over 200 community solar projects have been completed in Adjuntas impacting health care, entertainment, communications, education, food security, and economic activation with private sector engagement to confront poverty and inequalities. Critical infrastructure including the town's fire station and the emergency response unit, its elementary school, and nursing home are now operating with solar power as part of Casa Pueblo's self-sufficiency energy program.

DETAILS
For more information, contact: casapueblo.correo@gmail.com

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