Linking market oriented strategies with biodiversity conservation efforts.
PRLog - May 29, 2014 - MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- To prevent biodiversity loss due to design based on wood properties, standardization in manufacturing process and monoculture forestry plantations, Ricardo de la Puente, with Chakaan Buulaan (www.chakaabuulaan.org) created Biodiversity Based Design (BBD). An Industrial Designer with ample experience on manufacturing processes, De La Puente wants to create sustainable products that respect the environment.
“When we design products based on the properties of raw materials, the outcome is promotion of forest monoculture and the consequence is biodiversity loss”, comments De la Puente. That is why he teamed with Chakaan Buulaan Initiave, to help find a solution. With Biodiversity Based Design efforts his goal is to develop products and production processes for a market in which environmental responsibility and biodiversity conservation is a direct outcome of our business strategy and it´s core value, instead of a desirable parallel commitment (we do harm somewhere, but make things right in another place).
The attributes of a Biodiversity Based Design Product (BBD) are to consider as input the sustainable harvest of biodiversity oriented managed forests. It´s also focused not on the forest but on the social and economic relationship with the forest. “It is the relationship, which has to be sustainable: socially, economically, biophysically and culturally”, comments Ricardo.
With this efforts, when someone buys a BBD product they are not buying a thing, they are giving life to a relationship with the forests in which biodiversity depends. That´s what Ricardo´s efforts are all about.
Chakaan Buulaan is currently working with indigeneous communities setting the foundations for Biodiversity Based Design.
It was founded in 2003 after a decade of work and research about ecosystem management by the Mayan culture, a traditional art where the diversity of worldviews, the cycles of the sky and land dynamics are subjects who share becoming.
Hence its name . In maya, Cha means " bring" and Ka'an , "heaven." Chakaan is the savannah, where space is "open" jungle and " hard " heaven ; where Buulaan refers to the periodic flooding of the savannahs , a manifestation of the relationship between the cycles of heaven and soil fertility , which articulates the relationship between agriculture , hunting , fishing and gathering .
Considering the profound processes of fragmentation and disintegration cultural, social , economic and environmental in our country , the founders of CHAKAAN BUULAAN adopted the commitment to design and implement methods for building adaptive governance systems for ecosystem management , specifically for conditions of profound economic , environmental, social and cultural fragmentation .
In short, the mission of the organization is to rebuild the social and environmental fabric cultivating the relationship between heaven and shared territory of each.
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