CO2 Bambu was launched as a carbon-sequestering bamboo plantations project, a reaction to former Vice President Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth”. This “call to action” came full circle this week as Peta and Ben, co founders, became “foot soldiers”…
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Barely five days after returning home to Nicaragua from Amsterdam and Paris, we are on the road again, heading to Miami for the “Sustainatopia” conference. Enough time at home to unpack, do laundry, check in with the dogs and cats and pack and…
We started in Chinatown… and we ended in Chinatown. What are we talking about here? How San Francisco, which is firming up as our favorite city in the U.S., has an awesome Chinatown that is a core part of the…
Before leaving San Francisco I was lucky enough to have another full day with Oren and his friend Justin. Justin is from N. Carolina, living away from home for the first time and has a palate that is primarily used…
For those of you who know me, it probably wouldn’t be a surprise to find out that one of the things I am interested in finding out more about, is the experience of spending some time in an ahsram. After…
It was an additional surprise that the Investors’ Circle conference turned out to be in San Francisco, our favorite U.S. city and home to two of our “four boys”. This facilitated a long-overdue visit. First stop, Austin, an “island in…
The level of effort to prepare was WELL worth it! The twice annual conference set up in San Francisco was extremely well run and the quality of both entrepreneurs pitching their need for investment and investors was very high. Day…