SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Eightfold promotes sustainable communities based on a business model of shared value
EIGTHFOLD PILLARS
Live &
Work
Creativity in action is about contributing to the positive transformation of the planet by imaginatively using our talents.
We are a big family that celebrates the reshaping of work-life styles in rural areas of Colombia. All our campuses are designed as physical and social spaces that encourage our team's emotional wellbeing and professional fulfillment on a daily basis.
Medical
Fusion
Intertwined as they are, our body, our relationships and our productivity express how we feel inside.
As part of our holistic comprehension of health, our campuses count with alternative-oriented services & forefront products (based on traditional medicine plants) that help our community members embody a good life.
Art
Creative
The awakening of our senses builds powerful bridges of knowledge. Both fine and performing arts -rituals included- are the best way to communicate what each culture means and why they matter.
We seek to strengthen local communities’ sense of belonging, dignity and cross-cultural exchange by maximizing the ways in which they express who they are and how they relate to their biodiverse environments.
Innovations &
Technology
When technology not only serves the planet but also reaches the remotest corners of Colombia, the basis of visionary changes sets-up.
Just as any other tool, technology requieres purposeful thinking and determination. We care about properly introducing high-tech organic production, internet access and monitoring systems in each one of our project areas, with deep respect for the singularity of every place and farmer society. As a whole, we seek to expand a kind of IT education that brings together local and global communities in order to get the best of both worlds.
Ecological
Agriculture
If growing life is about being present, farming is the art of remaining completely aware of the natural cycles and patterns that surrounds us.
Together, our circular economy policy, high-tech growing techniques and 0-chemicals commitment guarantee Eight Fold’s super-foods supply-chain truly supports the restoration of natural landscapes and sustainable farmer livelihoods around Colombia.
Progressive
Education
Learn to be present; think clearly; lead ethically; speak properly; undertake worthy efforts; behave properly; feel the right moment.
Eight Fold encompasses self-awareness and professional education certificates in order to set conditions and goals to grow in our work, relationships, and lives as a whole.
Sustainable
Energy
The greener, the better.
Inspired by the evolution of sustainable solutions, we seek to produce, live, and use clean energies throughout our plantations and infrastructure. We hope reducing waste, decreasing water consumption and producing energy based on solar panels inspire many more green entrepreneurial mindsets in every Colombian region.
Mindfulness &
Peace
The art of interacting with or without words: loosing oneself in order to become part of everything.
We understand each member of our team is a unique channel of something bigger that unites us all. Not being a linear process, we also know that enough room for introspection, peer coaching and immersion in nature are key aspects that help us connect with our higher selves (and stay plugged).
Accordingly, our campuses count with proper conditions for undertaking meaningful indigenous ceremonies (which vary depending on the area where the project is located) and meditation practice opportunities available for everyone.
EIGHTFOLD COMMUNITY
A sustainable community, with local development initiatives according to the Eightfold community pillars
Biodiversity Bank
The Biodiversity Bank is a private conservation & restoration model of local representative flora and fauna of each Colombian region.
It works through the engagement of local
communities.
We look forward to declaring these areas as Natural Reserves of Civil Society
Campesino and Ethnic Program
Inclusion of locals through sustainable businesses that
a) Align to region's own vocations
b) Streghthen human cultural heritage and sites
c) Illicit crop replacement.
Our Participatory Guarantee System (PGS), to be adopted with grassroots communities,
will assess the coherence standards of our Eightfold Communities.
Agro Industrial Complex
Hight-Tech Organic Medicine and Agroindustry Complexes built in-site.
Production, transformation and market of organic plantbased
medicine, super-foods, super-cosmetics and super-fibers.
Ecoturism
Spiritual ecotourism in Natural Park influence areas that operates with high conservation standards while creating opportunities for vulnerable communities.
Agroforestry 3D
A sustainable land use system that integrates trees and shrubs into crops, capturing higher amounts of carbon.
Different types of crops will be supported by themselves in a vertical way.
Farmaceutical real medicine
Seed & Transformation Research Centers for the production of High Quality Organic Plant-based Medicines for the World.
These plants of cultural use will be promoted upon agreements with local indigenous communities.
Spiritual Center
Spiritual ecotourism in Natural Park influence areas that operates with high conservation standards while creating opportunities for vulnerable communities.
Eightfold Store
A sustainable community, with local development initiatives according to the eight pillars that characterize an Eightfold community