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Mission
Transform the message of sustainability into practical actions for the city, with clear, participatory and visible experiences.
CZ GREEN A.C. / Environmental culture / Tijuana
Designing Regenerative Culture.
We turn sustainability into experiences that shift how people think, participate, and take action in their communities.
15+ years
50+ schools
Our own 7R method
01 Recycle02 Reduce03 Reuse04 Refuse05 Respect06 Reinvent07 Realize
01 Recycle02 Reduce03 Reuse04 Refuse05 Respect06 Reinvent07 Realize
01 Recycle02 Reduce03 Reuse04 Refuse05 Respect06 Reinvent07 Realize
01 Recycle02 Reduce03 Reuse04 Refuse05 Respect06 Reinvent07 Realize
What sets us apart
The goal is not simply to give a talk. It is to spark an action the community can repeat.
CZ GREEN arises from the need to create environmental and cultural awareness in Tijuana. The organization uses art, education, creative reuse and urban intervention to turn sustainable messages into practical actions for schools, businesses, neighborhoods, and communities.
Origin / Focus
An organization shaped by design, place, and Green Education.
We convert sustainability messages into practical actions: educational experiences, public art, documentation and communities working in place.
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Vision
To be a referencia in northwestern Mexico on environmental solutions, such as: The 7R’S Methodology, Ecological Art, Community Transformation and more.
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Name
CZ is born from the border identity of Tijuana and converts that visual energy into its own way of communicating environmental culture.
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Pathway
From creative reuse and object-based art to murals, documentaries, workshops, cultural tours and public activations.
We design to connect people, regenerate spaces, and build more livable futures.
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Creative reuse
Waste can also become landscape, memory and message.
Method
From place-based insight to visible transformation.
Each project starts from a real context: a space, a school, a community or a story. An experience is then designed, community groups are invited in, and the outcome is documented so it can be repeated or travel beyond its original place.
The 7Rs
Small actions, major impact.
Adopt responsible habits and transform the way we relate to resources and our environment.
Recycle
Process used materials into new products.
Reduce
Reduce the consumption of unnecessary objects and resources.
Reuse
Give a second life to what can still be useful.
Refuse
Avoid toxic, overpackaged or difficult to recover products.
Respect
Take care of natural resources and shared spaces.
Reinvent
Imagine new solutions for habits, objects and community.
Realize
Move from message to action with creativity and collaboration.
Callejón Río Bravo
Transforming spaces, strengthening communities.
A forgotten Alley became a cultural corridor: first the problem was recognized, then art arrived, then physical intervention and in the end the community inhabited it again.
2020
The challenge
A deteriorated Alley, with garbage, weeds and little movement. The initial image reveals the real problem: abandonment and lack of ownership.
Diagnosis: recognize the starting point.
2024
The recovery
Urban art renewed the perception of the site. The murals made a new identity visible and opened the door to community participation.
Action: convert abandonment into a sign of identity.
Vision
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Vision
The new space
The process moved towards a physical intervention: shade, vegetation, lighting, furniture and meeting areas to make the change permanent.
Plan: design conditions to inhabit it.
Social impact
The community returns
The project makes sense when people use it: coexistence, culture, inclusion and pride in a place that was previously invisible.
Result: a cultural corridor with a life of its own.
We don't just recover an Alley. We create a place where people can meet, express themselves and build new stories.
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International reach
With projection for audiences from all corners.
Callejón Río Bravo
Urban space recovered with murals and sculptures, which functions as a platform for environmental and community education. Selected as an impact project within the framework of World Design Capital 2024.
View linkWoolwich Arsenal
Training and practical workshop for professionals and art enthusiasts, to encourage best practices in the community with creativity.
View linkPublic activation with more than 500 attendees, with a very complete folkloric program and art expo, with the participation of international artists.
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Lines of action
The project adapts to the territory, not the other way around.
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Design
Graphic, audiovisual and manual materials for understandable communication of sustainable messages.
027R
Philosophy of the cycle of consumed products and the actions we must take.
03Community brigades
Cleaning, restoration, murals, cultural programming and recovery of social fabric.
04Archive
Documentaries, press, capsules and visual record to continue the scope of each project.
Documentaries
Stories that activate new forms of environmental culture.
Tijuana / Sustainable Documentary
A look at the environmental and social challenges of the Tijuana region: cross-border pollution, waste management, activism, public art, and binational cooperation to connect schools, businesses, government and community.
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Recognition
News, press and recent activations.
Frequently asked questions
Before a project is activated, this usually helps.
We resolve the most common doubts to start with clarity and purpose.
What makes CZ different GREEN?
The experience combines environmental education, design, public art, documentation and participation. It does not stop at a talk: it seeks to leave a practice, a piece or a visible intervention.
→Can you work with schools?
Yes. The format can be adapted to school groups, internal campaigns, social service, subject projects or creative reuse experiences.
→What are the 7R?
They guide better decisions: recycle, reduce, reuse, reject, respect, reinvent and realize concrete actions.
→Where does the name come from CZ?
It grows out of Tijuana's border identity and its visual culture: a way to unite local creativity, green awareness and memorable communication.
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Do you want to develop environmental culture in your organization?
Schools, companies, communities and allies can collaborate through educational experiences, urban intervention, 7R culture, documentation and participation programs.
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