Sustainable Spain

I just found out about the Alpujarra Sostenible pressure group and blog, which you can visit here. (It's mostly in Spanish but there is some English copy too.) The organisation aims to protect the environment in the Alpujarra, one of the most important areas of biodiversity in Europe. Although the region remains breathtakingly beautiful to the eye of the visitor, it's clearly not beyond the threat of encroaching development. Road building in particular is unnecessarily brutal in some parts, and there's the constant threat of invernaderos (plastic greenhouses) and urbanizaciones, fortunately all at lower altitudes than Juviles. One benefit of the real estate depression could be less pressure on beautiful areas like ours for new homes - there's currently a million empty apartments in Spain.