Education is an important complement to physical ecosystem rehabilitation efforts. A team can work endlessly to conserve and protect a struggling ecosystem to have their work render useless due to improper

This fall EcoSwell has three new interns volunteering their time to work on the various projects around Lobitos. There are new and ongoing projects, but all aim to benefit the community live more sustainably.

EcoSwell will be on “The Alternative LifeStyle” this Friday September 14 at 3pm (Peruvian Time)! Two of our volunteers, Anthony Rizzi and Joris Simiatis, will be talking about their time at EcoSwell and

Seth I spent three weeks in Lobitos with the EcoSwell team. Upon my arrival, the first thing I noticed was how quickly the new arrivals were assimilated into the EcoSwell life and routine. Within a few

EcoSwell director Diego raising the Peruvian flag Why do so many strive to create large-scale impact? Why do so many of us crave to change the world, but lose motivation when we realize the task at hand

It’s a cold morning in Lobitos. I wake up early around 6am as I normally do, hear the waves break outside my window and the sun come out slowly from the horizon. My normal start of the day at EcoSwell

Our volunteers have been hard at work building a solar distiller - a structure that can turn seawater into clean drinking water using evaporation and condensation processes. Water, especially safe drinking

I know it sounds crazy, but coastal cities are starting to use surfing to legally protect beaches and coastal natural resources. That is essentially the goal of surfonomics. A more exact definition of

Every Wednesday, the EcoSwell team rises with the sun for our weekly Planting Day. The morning is usually spent planting new trees or vegetables in the various garden beds around EcoSwell. This week we

When I was younger I used to think that there was a right path to take and that one of the main objectives of my life is to find it and take it. In time, I have come to understand that I am already on

It was a hot and sunny Tuesday afternoon when I arrived in Talara, greeted by the warm and friendly faces of members of the @EcoSwell team on my first official day as an EcoSwell Intern. Two short weeks

On Sunday, the @EcoSwell interns took a trip to the most western point of South America, Punta Balcones. The point is about an hour south of the EcoSwell headquarters in Lobitos, Peru, outside of the town

The average person uses about 80 gallons of water a day. The biggest culprit: flushing your toilet. Old school toilets can use up to five gallons of water for every use! However, there is a way of modifying

A must-do activity on the north coast of Peru is swimming with green turtles. This magnificent sea creatures are easy to encounter at El Ñuro, a sanctuary for green turtles and a great place to swim with

52% of the world’s fisheries are fully exploited, 25% are overexploited, and the rest are increasingly under stress from overfishing. The environmental impacts are clear – depleting fish stocks, destroyed

In 1999, Sugata Mitra and his team at NIIT dug a hole in the wall of their office building facing a slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi and placed there a WiFi enabled computer terminal. All that was exposed was

Aeroponics, a technology used by NASA, is an efficient way of growing plants without the use of soil and very little water. The plants grow with their roots suspended in air and are misted with water mixed

Trust is one of the most important pillars of any human relationship. All of us have people we trust and people we don’t. Trust is often built over time or after a series of interactions that prove to

Lobitos, Peru is home to some of the best surf South America has to offer. In fact, this is what originally drew the founders of @EcoSwell to the area! Surfers come here from all over the world to catch

Yesterday, the @EcoSwell team took a field day to explore the future ecotourism hiking trails in nearby Piedritas. The ecotourism hiking trails are a project that EcoSwell is currently working on to promote