Alter Terra takes an innovative approach to addressing the environmental and socioeconomic effects of unplanned urbanization by promoting initiatives that reduce poverty, create jobs, and improve general health of neighborhoods that lack sanitation and healthcare. Focusing on biodiversity and watershed-based planning, we create locally specific solutions for environmental conservation in impoverished regions of Americas.
Location: San Diego County, California, and Tijuana, Mexico
Director(s): Oscar Romo
Address: c/o Earth Island Institute, 2150 Allston Way, Suite 460, Berkeley, CA 94704