We have written before about the wealth of projects and micro-initiatives undertaken by individual residents of Granada. This week, three green initiatives came to the fore, plus one interesting milestone for CO2 Bambu. Waterways clean up: Leslie, a Northern California…
In 2007 Nicaragua faced it’s version of Hurricane Katrina, when Hurricane Mitch stormed through the Atlantic coast. The full force hurricane ripped out over 150,000 hectares of ancient forest, devasted the region’s economy and created tens of thousands of homeless…
Amazingly, today our couch, my easel, our little flat screen tv, cd player and cd storage units actually arrived in a white truck outside our door! Lets see… they held these items hostage — almost two months longer than all…
A few years ago when we went college visiting with our youngest son, Adam, to Washington D.C., we did a home exchange for our house here in Granada. We were delighted with the gorgeous contemporary 3 story house in Adams…
Peta and I were invited by one of our neighbors to participate in our first community action meeting. The particular theme of the meeting was “preparation for the upcoming holidays” (Xmas and New year). We both felt that being invited…
Of course it makes complete sense for me to be roped into working at Casa Lupita on clinic days. Clinic days are when volunteer (both Nicaraguan and foreign) veterinarians spend days, or a week working to neuter dogs and cats…
In order to get paid a salary by CO2 Bambu in Nicaragua, I need to be a resident. Months ago, I had a spurt of energy to set the wheels in motion to obtain residency. Not such an easy process…
Ben had a long week in bamboo world and wanted a week end escape. It’s Saturday morning and we have no car, have made no plans for anyone to stay in the house. But as a sign that we are…