Semana Santa: when all of Nicaragua goes to the beach… buying mangoes for the boat ride Swimming in the Cocibolca Lake is a “full dress” affair… We missed the ferry by a few minutes and rather than wait a couple of hours,…
CO2 Bambu morphs from builder to developer
Today launches an exciting new adventure for CO2 Bambu. From builder of eco-homes, we will morph into the role of developer. Through an alliance with one of Granada’s leading families of entrepreneurs and land owners, CO2 Bambu is now poised…
Full house….
Wow! We had a wonderfully FULL house for about five weeks…. People coming and staying, with some occasional overlapping as well. Here’s a list of friends/family over a five week period: MonicaLolo the capuchin monkeyCharoBrookNikkiRasa and KrisGili and Maya After a…
Lolo the capuchin monkey
While putting up some of my dog paintings at a local hotel in Granada, Ben and I were introduced to the hotels’ latest “acquisition”… a baby capuchin monkey. Somehow the sight of a baby monkey on a leash and in…
CO2 Bambu has impact through construction of rural schools
CO2 Bambu’s social and environmental impact is not limited to building social housing. Nicaragua has a huge deficit in schools, specifically in rural areas where schools are often so far from pockets of population, that children face very long distances…
CO2 Bambu builds eco lodge near Granada: Parque Ecologico de Malacos
CO2 Bambu was recently awarded a contract to build a small eco lodge on the outskirts of Granada. The trend for rural tourism in Nicaragua is clear and bamboo has a role to play in support of this eco friendly…
CO2 Bambu in the news
http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/especiales/279404-bambu-joya-de-construccion
BILWI (Post Hurricane Felix Reconstruction Program) completed by CO2 Bambu
After months of deploying field construction teams in five indigenous communities of the Atlantic North Autonomous Region (RAAN) near Bilwi, CO2 Bambu is proud to announce that the process of handing over the homes to beneficiaries has been completed. At…