Having fun while trying to be a sustainable coliving is our great challenge…
Community vibes
This few weeks we have done some activities in the house, some are new for us like the Board game night…
An idea of Didier, one of our colivers, a French remote worker with lots of coliving experience in his backpack, always a pleasure to talk with him… he has this great idea and I think people had fun…
We have been a bit “provocative” with some activities under the title “Tech-free” like going to see the sunset without any kind of gadget…
We think we should start talking about the use of screens in our lives, and this is a small step… This idea comes from Camila, one of our colivers in December and January, she also had the idea of a tech-free area in the coliving…
As you can imagine I don´t have any pictures of that afternoon…
We organized a vegan dinner and we ended up with 27 people on the terrace, it was fun, but we couldn’t sit down, we don’t have that many chairs, so it was kind of informal and we did it all around the terrace… couldn´t take too many pictures, too busy eating…
Special thanks to one of our community members, Diana, she is from Kasajstan and we celebrated her birthday party on our terrace.
They make amazing food from their country and we had a great time talking and eating… By the way, she had like three cakes, is that legal? I couldn’t eat more… everything was delicious…
EcoIsleta sustainable community
A few months ago I had a conversation with a coliver, he told me that when he arrived at the house, he thought something like
- “But What is sustainable in this coliving”
- “Why do they say they are sustainable”
He only saw the recycle bins and thought “That is in many places too”…
In the first instance, I thought “Everything I’m doing is wrong”, “People coming and they don’t know what we are doing”, or “Am I communicating”, this conversation made it clear that, don´t very well…
A few weeks later, I thought that maybe it wasn´t that bad. Maybe many sustainable practices we put in place look or feel “normal”…
Our sustainability practices are on our web page Sustainable Coliving
As some of you know, in EcoIsleta we are trying to fill the gap between the sustainability problems faced while traveling and the procrastination of many remote workers about sustainability…
We believe that traveling and working remotely can be sustainable, and can even be good for our communities.
How can we be more sustainable?
That is the question I´m repeating to myself most of the time, how can we reduce, how can we reuse…
In the last few months, we have made a few more investments to be more sustainable ourselves, we install solar panels, which will help us to produce 40% of our energy…
We would like to share with you our “trash” data… We have been measuring our trash for the last year…
Some people say that our garbage talk about us more than we can say… Few explanations about this data…
– No data for January 2023 because a group of remote workers rented the full house for themselves, we didn’t have access to the house
– Based on government data PIRCAN, in Gran Canaria an average person produces 1,46 kg of garbage a day, our Coliving is around 0,300 gr a day per person including the amount of trash that we compost and turn into a resource for the island…
– Compostable trash is composted inside of our coliving with worms and also in a High School in a project we are working on with a local NGO, this is one of our biggest achievements, 199 kilograms of trash composted in our neighborhood.
– Nom compostable includes, oranges, lemon, garlic, and onion, as well as food that colivers don’t eat…
– Water- In Canary Islands, an average person consumes 150 liters of water daily. In EcoIsleta Coliving we are around 120 l or less per person a day
– Electricity- The Spanish Electricity Network says that an average house of two people in Spain consumes 270 KwH monthly, we are around 350 KwH for 5 colivers
– Plastic is our main challenge…
