[FLPERMACULTURE] Sustainability speaker at IC on Tues., Feb. 20th, 7pm

[Michael Burns]

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> From: Marian Brown <mbrown at ithaca.edu>
> Date: February 19, 2007 2:54:45 PM EST
>
> SPEAKER AT ITHACA COLLEGE TO DISCUSS
> EFFORTS TO PROTECT ECUADOR CLOUD FOREST
>
> ITHACA, NY--Rodrigo Ontaneda, the cofounder of an organization  
> dedicated to protecting and preserving Ecuador's cloud forest (high- 
> altitude rain forest), will discuss his efforts in a free public  
> talk at Ithaca College on Tuesday, Feb. 20. Ontaneda's  
> presentation, "Saving the Cloud Forest: 18 Years of Sustainability  
> at Maquipucuna," is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Textor 101.

> Ontaneda serves as copresident of Fundación Maquipucuna, a thriving  
> cloud-forest management reserve, educational center and ecotourism  
> lodge in the high elevations of the Andes. Located within the Choco- 
> Andes biodiversity corridor, Fundación Maquipucuna owns 7,500  
> hectares of cloud forest and manages over twice that amount of  
> adjacent reserve lands, helping preserve the complex ecosystems of  
> one of the world's biodiversity "hot spots."

> Ontaneda will join with David Saiia, assistant professor of  
> management in the Ithaca College School of Business, to discuss the  
> college's service learning program in sustainable microenterprise  
> in Ecuador. Saiia has worked with Fundación Maquipucuna for the  
> past eight years; in May 2006 he led a team of 14 Ithaca College  
> students to Ecuador for a two-week field study experience.

> The presentation will also feature Ecuadorian organic coffee--grown  
> and roasted by Maquipucuna as a sustainable enterprise.
> For more information about Fundación Maquipucuna, visit http:// 
> maqui.myweb.uga.edu/. For more information on the 2006 Ithaca  
> College-Ecuador Program, visit http://ithaca.edu/ecuadorprogram/.

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