From a beach community in Sierra Leone, a Manifesto for measuring our future:
In order to keep on improving our sustainable lifestyle, in order to show that it is possible to live in harmony, we have developed 10 indexes that help us measure our impact at Tribewanted,...
0 Comments | Posted January 19, 2012 | g:i A
As I left New York on a freezing early January day, I was filled with excitement about coming back to Tribewanted at John Obey beach, Sierra Leone, after being gone for nine months. Would the sustainable community we built last year have withstood the test of time? Would I be...
0 Comments | Posted September 27, 2011 | g:i A
Around this time last year, we arrived on the deserted beach of John Obey with the dream of building a sustainable community from scratch. We had no idea what to expect, it had never been done here before and international tourists had hardly been flocking to Sierra Leone since the...
0 Comments | Posted March 17, 2011 | g:i A
Tribewanted Sierra Leone: Six months and four days have passed since we first camped at John Obey, on the virgin beach. I now find myself heading back to NYC. Talk about a culture shock.
We have built an eco-tourism cross-cultural community from scratch. Five expats and 30 locals, solar...
0 Comments | Posted December 2, 2010 | g:i A
Work continues, tribe members are slowly trickling in, about 30 of them have joined us on the beach thus far, and we find ourselves with a cross-cultural community that works.
Our first earth-bag dome is finished and we have begun the second one. We have filtered running water in...
0 Comments | Posted October 20, 2010 | g:i A
Tribewanted John Obey. October 20 2010. Two weeks have passed since we officially launched. It has been a remarkable success, filled with experiences to last a lifetime, as well as major headaches that have tested our resolve.
After one final push to have the compost toilets, the bucket showers, and...
0 Comments | Posted September 22, 2010 | g:i A
Tribewanted Sierra Leone, John Obey beach. Two weeks in. Ten days before the first tribemembers arrive.
It is one thing to talk about it and plan from abroad, quite another is to live every day on a virgin beach, with no amenities and a lot of rain. The rainy season...
0 Comments | Posted August 4, 2010 | g:i A
My name is Filippo Bozotti. Italian by origin, in work, I wear many hats: in New York, I'm a socially conscious documentary producer, a job whose main perk is traveling the world off the beaten paths following remarkable stories and meeting remarkable individuals. That's what first brought me to Sierra...
0 Comments | Posted March 6, 2012 | g:i A