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We’re in a global context where
prices are going to start to rise,

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because everything relies
on cheap fossil fuels.

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Transportation will rise,
food will rise,

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energy will rise,
electricity will rise.

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You put in sweat and tears,
but it\'s not enough,

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and you see obscene ostentatiousness
in front of you,

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and it makes you angry.

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I feel and see that humanity
is going through an important process

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as inhabitants of this planet.

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Like a fish swimming against the current,
that’s how you feel.

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You break a structure,

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a structure that’s social,
and also internal,

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because it’s also been
taught to us.

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The people who were here before

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had a wholly functional system,
and we showed up with our God,

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and damn, did we mess up,
we have to go back, change course.

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We’re in Patagonia,

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where America becomes
a large archipelago, a tip of land.

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And the climate defines who we are.

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In winter, days are short,

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at 8 AM it lightens up
and at 5 PM it gets dark.

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And in summer, days are long,

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so at 5 AM it\'s already light out,
it\'s daytime, and at 11 PM there\'s still light.

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Yerba-mate?

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The year starts in winter,

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therefore, the cold, the short days,

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invite you to be sheltered,
next to the stove,

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cooking, eating,

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the long nights
allow you to plan,

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and to think.

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What have I done,
what else should I have done,

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and what am I going to do now,
this next time.

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My father built his house here,

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and me and my siblings
lived with my mother in the city.

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We used to come here on weekends,
to my old man\'s.

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So we lived in
the two realities:

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with our mother in the city,
we used to go to the supermarket,

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and buy bags and bags of food.

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And at our father’s,
there was a big vegetable garden,

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a great variety of food,
from right there.

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At that time,
the city was further away,

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so it was like an adventure
to come here,

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and we went out to play,
and we didn’t understand much,

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but now I see it,
we enjoyed nature,

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we were outdoors,
playing with what was around,

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imagining things,

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and that marked my childhood,
my youth.

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Later, I picked that back up,
and adapted it to my own style.

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Good, good, good!

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Connecting with who we are.
Right?

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Because we’re earth
at the end of the day.

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We’re earth,
we’re going to die,

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we’ll turn into earth.

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And looking critically at all this.
Right?

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That everything revolves around money,
success, material things.

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And…

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Where does that leave happiness?

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And when I was
studying and living in the city,

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I missed the trees,

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nature,
the forest, the mountain,

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the fresh air,
the fresh water.

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But in Santiago,
if you don’t have money in your pocket,

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you can’t drink water, eat,
or go anywhere,

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You can\'t…
do anything,

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damn, and...

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you’re hopeless,
so...

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that clearly tells you
that it’s not the life I want to live.

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I come from Santiago,
so I grew up having an urban life,

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with very little connection with nature.

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The few times
I had a connection with nature

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I realized
that was what I liked the most.

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And I moved to Valparaíso
for college

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I studied psychology for two years,

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and mainly due to economic issues
I dropped out,

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and there in Valparaíso
I met Martín, my partner,

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and he also made the decision
to come and live here.

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I came with him.

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We moved here,

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in this process of uncertainty,
at the beginning.

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What are we going to do
with our life.

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This has social implications,
of success,

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which means a degree,
a profession,

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versus this alternative,
which we found how to make it work,

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with permaculture,
so we studied permaculture.

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We learned many things,
which I had never heard about,

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but it opened up another way
to evolve here.

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It was more connected to the earth,
to doing things with our hands,

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that was what was calling to me
at that moment.

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It was revealing
and wonderful.

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Still, we always have the desire
to see the world.

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But we decided that,
before seeing the world,

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let\'s have a shelter first,

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a place to be
and to do our things.

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So we said, well,

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it’s a tremendous opportunity
that we can materialize in Coyhaique.

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Let\'s do it.

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We connected with what we are,
with the environment, and the earth,

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and we saw that the earth
could give us food, energy,

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satisfaction,
fruit, sweetness, health,

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and we started to draw.

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We’re going to build a house,
an vegetable garden, a greenhouse,

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we’re going to make
a solar heater,

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we’re going to make
medicinal products.

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I believe that this invites you
to find your own system.

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You find your rhythm,
how you want to live,

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and you organize yourself
around the seasons,

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what calls to you the most
at every moment,

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what are your plans,
how are you projecting yourself,

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what makes you happy
at the moment,

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it invites you to reflect,
to ask yourself about this system of life.

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And what’s most important,
to be happy.

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The chickies? Or the ducks.
Where are we going.

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Titi.

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Titi!

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- Titi!
- Titi is here!

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Come here!

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Mom.

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Mom!

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Did you feed the chickies,
Alén?

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And one month after we moved here,
I got pregnant,

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so I feel it was like…

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building a nest, a home,

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feeling that you have
a calm space that’s yours,

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and then Kunti came,
as if she was saying,

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“Yes, I want
to be part of this family.”

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Dad, let\'s go get the bike!

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My name is Kunti.

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This place is the Minga Alegre.

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I’m the only girl who lives here.

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Well, my sister is a baby,
but there aren’t any other children my age.

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There’s Mother, Natalia, Pipe...

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Instead of buying fruit,
sometimes they grow it.

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Also, instead of
buying so much food,

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since we harvest,
we buy less.

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Vegetables are what we buy least,

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because we also plant
a lot of vegetables.

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We have artichokes,
they’re huge.

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Calendula is a flower
that you can eat.

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My parents built this house.

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This house is small,
but we live well.

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And my father
is going to continue building it.

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We’re ready.

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All those trees
were planted by the elders.

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Before, everything was bare,
there were no trees.

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These trees are
about 20 years old.

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Now it’s a small forest.

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Now I\'m taking
the chainsaw to harvest.

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That’s the hard part.

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For example, that tree was planted,

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and 30 years later,
it was harvested,

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so that\'s 2 visits in 30 years.

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That’s permaculture design,

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you plot the things you need the most,
and put them closer,

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and the ones you least need,
are farther away.

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From here to there,
are the annual plants,

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with lower-maintenance produce.

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You sow them,
take care of them,

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come to take care of them again,
and then harvest them.

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About 4 or 5 visits,
more or less, required per year,

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so we put them
a little further from the house.

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Oak leaf lettuce.

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Salad vegetables, for example,
are harvested every day.

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So those things that are picked everyday,
you put them closer to home.

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At the end of winter,

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you’ve already designed
your entire farm plan for the year,

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and then everything is sown,
everything grows,

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and summer comes,
which is the season

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in which we further develop
the construction side.

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Because we build with mud,
adobe, earth, straw, water.

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So that\'s a summer job.

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And then we invite many volunteers
who come to help us.

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Hard work, physical, heavy labor…
many hours.

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So we focus and work.

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From sunup to sundown.

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There’s a different finish
for this stick.

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And here we’ll continue
straight up,

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just straight up.

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I entered the construction field
in order to build without money,

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that is, I apply a philosophy:
building with what’s available,

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with what’s closer, more at hand,
the easiest, the most accessible.

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Well, what all ancient cultures
have done.

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You go to Titicaca, and everything
is made of straw from that area.

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You go to the desert, and everything
is made of earth from right there.

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So, in each place...

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they use what’s most at hand,
and build with that.

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What I had here was earth,
straw, and waste from the city.

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Here in Patagonia
we have access to nature,

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I take advantage of
natural materials,

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materials that are still alive.

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If a scientist analyzed
the walls here,

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they’d realize
that it’s full of life.

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The walls are full of life.

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And it’s been discovered
that mud

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is the best regulator
of humidity

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inside houses.

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That\'s the magic of nature.

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Each material has its own magic.

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This construction, which is big,
is also designed in relation to the Sun,

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in that it’s shaped
like a bay.

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I call it \'bay of the sun\',
because it’s horseshoe-shaped.

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In the sea, that shape
makes the ocean calm, waveless.

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And in this case,
in the solar design,

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it creates a microclimate,

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shielding the back from the wind,

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covering the whole back
from the cold of the south.

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I arrived at the end of 2010,
with a tent,

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to take possession of the place
and start building.

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I spent about three years ecstatic

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about the clouds, nature,
many things.

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The guys were also there,

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highly motivated
with the concept of permaculture,

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I was also studying, reading,

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and it was a concept
that also motivated me a lot.

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We organized workshops, courses,

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and also wanted
to do things with the earth,

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so there we started
putting this space together,

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and we created Minga Alegre.

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I think we’ve existed 10 years
as a group.

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That’s it!

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Well done, Tita, well done.

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So, your community is you, your family,
your friends, your neighborhood,

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but plants and animals
are also part of your community,

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they’re part of your family.

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The plants, the animals, the bugs...

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They’re part of the family.
Right, Tita?

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Who’s been eating
all the raspberries?

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Who’s been eating
all the raspberries?

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What are you eating?

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Coconut

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Coconut!

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In particular,
this lifestyle, for example,

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the good thing is that many
of the activities that you carry out

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can be done with the kids,
so it’s compatible,

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your daily life, the productive activities,
with your children,

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because you work
with healthy, natural things,

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it does them good.

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Here our perspective begins
with the child being integrated.

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Let’s get the wheelbarrow.

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What’s our position
regarding children in the world?

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It’s that we want to enjoy them,
we want to be with them,

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not entrust them to a model.

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Live their process and ours together.

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So, for example,
we don\'t take our children to school.

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Nor to kindergarten,
or to the nursery, or anything.

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- Would you like to have a picnic?
- Yes!

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Let\'s go
to the climbing rocks!

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So prepare your backpacks.

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We clearly see that they have
education and socialization needs,

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so we, and many friends, want

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to create a space that fulfills
this role of education and socialization,

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but with a different vision.

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We want to make a forest-school.

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We socialize, we learn,
but in an outdoor context.

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Being in nature
opens other things up to you,

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and it opens
other channels of perception.

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Kids, we’ll go climbing,

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but to go climbing,
we must be very careful,

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because falling on the rocks
can be dangerous, okay?

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Remember that there’s a rock
with a dangerous edge here.

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Well done, Chicho!

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Nature is
very beneficial for children,

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for their immune system,

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and for the development
of motor skills,

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in this stage in which
they are growing and exploring,

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it does them a lot of good.

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So you begin to understand that
in a traditional school system,

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children are sitting on chairs
almost all the time.

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And that isn’t
so beneficial for them.

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I’ll seek!

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You wanna seek? Ok.
Amparo will seek!

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I used to read to Kunti,
she liked books and reading,

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and her grandma began to explain to her
how the system was, little by little,

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and now she reads
entire books.

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And without being graded,
without a positive or negative report card,

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without competing with others,
relaxed.

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…the leaves,
and he started to toss them.

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Legend has it that once

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and old woman,
a healer from a Tehuelche tribe,

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couldn\'t walk anymore,

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for her weary old legs
were worn out.

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But the march could not stop.

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The old woman understood
the natural law of her fate.

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The women of the tribe
made a tent,

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they gathered plenty of burning wood and food
and said goodbye to her.

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The old woman fixed her weary eyes
on the distance,

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until the tribe was lost
behind the mountains.

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She stayed
to await her fate.

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The winter passed,
sharp and cold.

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Many suns passed
and many moons,

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until spring arrived.

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The sprouts emerged,
the swallows arrived, life returned.

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When the tribe returned to the place,
they found a great surprise:

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the grandmother wasn’t
inside the tent.

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In her place, there was a plant:

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the old woman had transformed
into a bush full of fruit.

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Tasting them, everyone was happy.
They were delicious.

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Tradition has it
that the person who eats one of these fruits

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always comes back
or stays in Patagonia.

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Permaculture
and this simpler way of life

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has been enriching
because it’s allowed us...

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a bit of a return to simplicity,
which is to ourselves,

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we have each other,
we’re together all the time,

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we take care of that, we protect it,
we have a good time,

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we love each other.

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Our goal is to bring about nostalgia
for that lost paradise,

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try to recover it.

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And permaculture is also
a vision of creating that same paradise,

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in the design
of human settlement.

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It’s to understand
that simple life is the way,

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because the world can’t afford
all of us living with the US system,

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with a perfect, green lawn,
a big house, and 2 cars.

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The world doesn’t have enough, so that\'s
not democratic, so we don\'t want it.

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That’s where the stories
they made us believe fall apart,

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that if we worked hard, we could become
super well-off materially,

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but I believe that happiness
is somewhere else,

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in the scent of a flower,
in a fresh breeze.

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So the rest falls apart,

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and this begins to grow,
and we see it all over the world,

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everywhere there are people who are
doing things like this, and that’s our role.