EquiLibrium: Earth and Life in Balance

EquiLibrium is an upcoming non profit organization that will operate in Costa Rica. It believes that a good life is one where people and nature are in balance and not at the expense of each other.

Equilibrium originates from the interest of the Cayuga Sustainable Hospitality Management Company and its affiliate hotels and ecolodges to actively support environmentally and socially responsible activities in their surrounding communities. This group is keenly interested in improving the lives of people while at the same time safe guarding the surrounding natural resources.

Furthermore, Cayuga and its affiliate hotels recognize the supportive role travel philanthropy can provide for a destination’s community development and environmental conservation projects; and with the creation of EquiLibrium they can provide travelers with an organized and well monitored opportunity for investing in acommunities’ projects. Equilibrium will support projects in the geographies of the hotels; these include, Guanacaste, Nicoya Peninsula, Central Pacific, Central Valley, and the Osa Peninsula. Travelers, and any others interested, will have the opportunity to help a diverse range of geographies and environmental and development projects. We are in the process of designing the portfolios of activities that Equilibrium will support in each geography.

Equilibrium will obtain its 501c3 status and will operate as a tax exempt organization. United States financial contributions to EquiLibrium will be charitable donations and as such can be deducted from taxes.

EquiLibrium’s mission is to propel a more harmonious way of living within the natural environment, by supporting projects that encourage community development be sustainable, improve management of natural resources, further environmental education, and advance biodiversity conservation.

Equilibrium objectives are to:

1. Facilitate community development congruent with safeguarding the natural environment.
2. Raise awareness to land stewardship ethics and provide basic skills for a more harmonious way of living within the natural environment.
3. Promote sustainable practices that protect natural resources.
4. Increase awareness to the natural environment and nature conservation benefits, particularly regarding unique biodiversity.
5. Promote efforts to reduce carbon emissions, as a personal, community and corporate responsibility.
   

We hope that you will visit Costa Rica and have an opportunity to better understand EquiLibrium’s community development and environmental conservation work. As we consolidate our efforts this page will have interesting information on our projects, and will provide you with an opportunity to get involved and help out with a mission that we all need to learn: living more in balance with the earth.