WHAT WE DO
We are 650 million Latin and Caribbean Americans. We’ve inherited a marvelously generous piece of land but our legacy -one of a clash of cultures- is a burden when it comes to find our way to share it fairly, peacefully and sustainably. And yet we don’t have too much time to find our way: our very world is collapsing, prey of excessive individualism.
The good news is that our legacy is also one of the sum of cultures; we’ve inherited diversity, resilience, creativity. We share a language, two oceans, the Andes, the Amazonas. We will own our future if we are able to collectively design a desirable one, because we have everything we need in our continent to foresee it.
Reciprocal Learning
Indigenous, Rural & Local Communities
Corporate Partners
LACPlan's Role
They leverage their knowledge, human talent and leadership to foster bottom-up alternative futures.
They contribute their business industries' know-hows, to promote and maybe venture social-entrepreneurship creation. Green energy production, forestry, agro-industry, nearshoring, ecological preservation & cultural tourism are just some of the alternatives that could be interesting in those territories where legal competitive markets have been unable to operate, so far.
Our magic consists in bridging the gap between the indigenous, rural & local communities and our corporate urban partners, enabling and sustaining virtuous reciprocal learning environments and contributing our multidisciplinary and multicultural expertise in territorial planning & local development, advocacy, institutional design and public policy implementation.
Mutual Envisioning & Implementation
Vision 2050
How is a world meant to last forever with us, humans, in it? What is a truly Latin & Caribbean American way of being on this earth that preserves it?
What are the institutions and governance schemes that will make our collective endeavor possible?
We plan...
A renewed sacredness
And we act, because there's no time to waste when the world is running madly towards extinction. As we plan, we build trust, identity and community while nurturing a renewed sacredness in our relation to our continent and its moorlands, mountains, rivers, wetlands, jungles, oceans, birds, bees, crops, trees and flowers!
We measure our Impact
The advancement of LACPlan as a system (and movement), will be progressively measured through 3 complex indexes -Wellrooting, Placerooting and Emancipatory Commonalities- whose exact indicators are yet to be determined.
