JUNGLETOWN - Editor

American entrepreneur and hundreds of young people are building the "world's most sustainable modern town” in the depths of the Panamanian jungle.

 

In 2008, entrepreneur Jimmy Stice bought 600 acres of tropical rain forest and set out to build a traditional city in paradise, when the market crashed thanks to traditional real estate. Realizing the old model of “if we build it they will come” was broken, he flipped it to “if they come, they will build it” and founded Kalu Yala, which means “Sacred Land,” which has since attracted hundreds of young people who – facing climate disaster, have decided to dedicate their lives to sustainability efforts over pursuing more traditional consumer-oriented routes. 

 

JUNGLETOWN is an intimate look at mostly Millennials, as they leave the comfort of their lives in civilization to come the jungle and figure out new ways to live, at a time we all must.

 

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