Archive for July 2015




Doing good

As our renovation work is slowly coming to an end, we now focus more and more attention to our primary goal – helping the local community. In past weeks we participated in several actions that support local sustainable activities such are eco farming, sustainable tourism or preservation of local natural and cultural heritage. It is really fulfilling to focus our strength on what we came here to do. Last week we continued with clean-up action in vicinity of Hrvoji that we started […]

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Roof #3

Today our “barn” got a roof! This was our third roof in the last ten months, so we have some experience, but every roof is different and this one was tricky, since the roof construction is partly made of stone. We needed three days to finish most of the tiling work. We got up and started working before 5 am to avoid daily heat, but it was fun nevertheless. Here are some pictures.

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Summer heat

Last month in Sustainability Park Istra was really hot with temperatures reaching above 30 degrees every day, but we are lucky to have nearby natural pool and the sea, where we can cool down a little. Park Istra is absolutely packed with volunteers this summer. We get up to 10 new volunteer requests every day. Having a lot of people here means, that there is something interesting happening every day. Here are some photos from the last month.   Celebrating Canada Day with colors, maple […]

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