An awareness of the system

Stakeholder Objectives

Stakeholder Objectives:

• Provide alternative energy resources to our farming enterprises in Chile litmus
• Have the best of the world’s students in the Sustainability area, help us get our project off the ground.
• Hire the best possible local student to implement and maintain our sustainability design.
• Potentially develop a new business in our company in Chile helping others in the farming business to use alternative energy sources.
• Prepare ourselves to eventually develop a Solar installation company in the USA.

Where we come in:

A group of 5 masters of strategic leadership towards sustainability grads from Blekinge Institute of Technology will be embarking on a "framework in practice" project. We will do our best to use the strategic and scientific understanding gained in our course to move towards sustainability and build capacity in others to fulfill their needs in a way that contributes to a sustainable planet.

The Aurora Project

Our primary objectives:

• Water the Pomegranates (Granadas en espanol)- this means set up a water pumping system for the existing and soon to be planted trees from lower elevation water sources to the top of the land for gravity-fed drip irrigation.
• Use renewable energy supply for water pumping.
• Explore the potential for solar array grid tie-in with local utility, i.e. to sell excess solar electricity back to the utility.
• Explore the potential of micro-hydro energy generation.
• Deliver our findings from the technological and design know-how to the strategies for sustainability in order to empower others to use renewable energy water pumping for their needs.

• Duration: 3 months preliminary research and design, 3 months on-site in Chile beginning in mid-September 2007
• Site: 10 Hectares in the western foothills of Santiago, Chile