Centro Nueva Segovia has long sought to be a trailblazer for sustainability in action. Along with their stable cross-cultural funding model, they have slowly been acquiring the resources to build their own freestanding school and education center. The Centro seeks to incorporate green design elements into the main building (water collection and filtration, composting toilets, some passive lighting and cooling, solar power for computer labs), and to make the building the cornerstone of an environmental education program. This will serve not only the local students, but also the community as a whole, which is facing an impending water crisis and suffers both from environmental degradation and unreliable access to electricity and water.