La Playa Reverdece

La Playa Reverdece is a community-sponsored initiative from the Playa de Ponce focused on improving the livelihoods of the playeros by supporting the arts and culture. The Playa Reverdece advocates for responsible stewardship of the marine and coastal resources of Ponce and works towards developing a new sustainable urban development of the Ponce beach area. 

Gardening Workshops

About one-third of adult residents in Puerto Rico experience food insecurity due to reliance on foreign food imports. To help combat this problem and create more locally produced food, ISER Caribe conducted a series of workshops to teach the community how to develop different types of gardens. These series of workshops are freely available on >> ISER Caribe’s YouTube channel.

Rain Gardens

Green infrastructures are rare in Puerto Rico and solutions are needed to address water quality issues throughout the island. To help address water quality, ISER Caribe developed five rain gardens in communities at the Playa de Ponce that suffer from flooding problems and non-point source water contamination. The rain gardens were developed in collaboration with the School of Architecture of the Universidad Católica de Ponce.   

WATTA Mobile Emergency System

ISER Caribe collaborated with BEMBA PR, an art collective that works out of Taller Lumpen in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, to install two water collection systems. In addition, we collaborated on the development of the Watta, which is a mobile device that can be used to provide water and power to communities in need of these services. These collaborations were under the Mayagüez Art District (M.A.D.) project.