Osa Mountain Village’s success thus far has been firmly based on
the utilization of permaculture principles 24/7 here on site.
Everything that we do is directed towards building a totally
sustainable, fully functional, food producing resort community.
With that said, when we first started planning our community…
and then began to market and build our villas, buildings and
infrastructure, there was a tremendous response and interest.
Because of the amazing response, we decided to parallel the
actual functioning body of Osa Mountain Village with a teaching
side as well. We first started “The World Institute for
Sustainability and Ecology” in October of 2009 and was able to
fill our first class by January of 2010, just a short 3 months
after our first idea came to be! Since then, we have had four
successful classes, the last being in January of 2011, with over
20 students attending and successfully completing our
Permaculture Studies Course. It was a 10-day class structure,
with hands-on learning, a few field tr