
Sally’s Solar Mountain Project.
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Welcome to my Solar Mountain Project - I am raising money to replace my destroyed solar system.
My passion for sustainability alongside 15 years worth of savings led me to a beautiful plot of land in this wonderful country of Costa Rica. My aim is to live self sufficiently and to achieve this I am learning from my Tico farmer neighbors how to carefully manage and conserve the resources of the tranquil mountainside.
Six years on and I am living in 2 shipping containers complete with a roof and a floor. With the last of my savings and loans from my brilliant family, I bought and installed a solar system, which has blown up not once, but twice!!!
The diverse weather conditions contributed to the meltdown, and for the last 8 months I have been adapting to living without any a/c power at all which has been particularly harsh with this years tropical storms.
I manage on a small pension my family and friends have been amazing in supporting me. Following professional advice I need to replace the solar with a more durable system to progress with the project. The new system will cost in the region of 12,000$ or 9-10,000£.
Many things have been achieved already:
* Shipping containers have been semi converted, transported, positioned and installed on posts’
* Sewage system installed, roof constructed, water tower and tank installed, wooden decking completed, 2 honeybee hives installed, compost banana circle dug and planted.
* I have also planted many indigenous trees and shrubs such as marañon and mango as well as fruit trees that are going extinct for all the families of howler monkeys and birds to feast on.
* A new deck made from Madera a local semi hard wood has now been constructed. This is a major life improvement especial in the rainy season, now I can keep relatively dry and walk from one can to the other on the new deck, hurray!!
My long term goals are to run education & volunteering programmes as well as to build a solar cinema to share films about sustainability as well as to continue to develop and evolve my commitment to organic farming and living sustainably.
So here I am, raising funds to help me finance a new and improved solar system to make all this happen!
Living without a fridge is challenging in this heat and having no AC power has slowed my progress - I would love to move on to the next stage of my project and your help with this will be invaluable.
Please follow my updates of life up a mountain, as I work towards my goal of raising funds for a new solar system.9000 GBP or 12000 USD.
Muchos Gracias
con amor
Sally
Pura Vida!
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Saearnah Kerensa
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