SUBSISTENCE FARMING
48%
COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE
32%
LOGGING
14%
FUEL WOOD REMOVALS
5%
ACCORDING TO THE
UN FOOD AND
AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION
LIVESTOCK
ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR
18%
OF ALL
GREENHOUSE GAS
EMISSIONS.
At EARTH University, we provide our students and the
community at-large with the commitment, knowledge
and tools to implement practical solutions TODAY to
our most pressing environmental challenges.
We invite you to be part of our environmental programs,
such as our 2,400-acre forest reserve located on our
main campus in Guácimo. As EARTH biology professor
Dr. Bert Kohlmann explains,
“
the forest reserve is an
incredible teaching laboratory. Very few universities in the
world have this capacity.”
At the EARTH-La Flor campus in Costa Rica’s
Guanacaste Province, reforestation and carbon fixation
initiatives are preserving the dry tropical forest. Since
acquiring the property in 2005, EARTH has planted
40,000
native trees and has set aside a 618-acre reserve
with a nine-mile trail along the Tempisque, the Santa
Ines and the Colorado rivers.
Two new programs also promise far-reaching
contributions to halting climate change. EARTH’s
carbon neutral and renewable energies programs are
training students, companies and communities on
how to measure, reduce and offset emissions, and to
design and implement alternative energy systems for
domestic, agricultural, or community use.
Reginald Cean, an EARTH alumnus from the class of
2011
who recently returned to his native Haiti noted,
“
I wasn’t aware of alternative energy until I
came to EARTH. Haiti depends on fossil fuels
for electricity and a great number of people do
not have access. At EARTH I was able to learn
new methods that I could put into practice
in Haiti.”
Show your commitment
to a healthy, sustainable
future with an investment in
EARTH’s ENVIRONMENTAL
INITIATIVES TODAY.
DID YOU KNOW?
CAUSES OF GLOBAL
DEFORESTATION*
:
*
UNFCCC (2007).“INVESTMENT
AND FINANCIAL FLOWS TO
ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE”.
EARTH alumni are having a
direct and positive impact on
the environment through their
efforts in waste management,
bio-digesters, organic farming,
soil and water conservation, and
alternative energies.