I am in this process of creating programs for G22 Green Connect that ignite passion, interconnect ideas, and inspire action to transform our relationship with environment. With a stronger connection to nature, I believe it is possible to deepen the understanding of our community, universe, and self.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Water for Life
Semana Santa is just beginning in Ayacucho, Peru, and the city is in the final stages of preparation for its biggest week of the year. As municipal gardens were trimmed and the streets cleaned ready for a vast influx of tourists, the central plaza gave itself over to a schoolchildren’s procession [...]
April 6th, 2011 - 4:09 am § in Good Ideas, Guatemala
Spotlight: Payments for Nature’s Benefits in Guatemala
Close your eyes and picture the mountainside of Guatemala. You probably see a verdant, lush expanse: thick undergrowth, deep streams, moist soil, and the quiet but steady advance of the trees. Now imagine you open your eyes, and the brush remains, but those trees- ficus, allspice, pine, ceiba- are a[...]
March 24th, 2011 - 8:00 pm § in Peru
Freeride Peru
Peru in the rainy, supposedly “low” season is a treat. Leaving Cusco two years ago after my first visit, I promised myself I would return, and this February I did. I found a blossoming community of riders in the navel of the universe, as the Incas wisely named it. Tourists filled [...]
February 3rd, 2011 - 10:56 am § in Good Ideas, Guatemala, In the Field, Nonprofit Spotlight, Uncategorized, Volunteer
All that Glitters is Not Gold (sometimes, it’s recycled bottles)
A development worker’s dream is a program that both reaches the immediate needs of the community, contributes to the long-term progress of the community, involves and gives ownership to the community itself, and in the best-case scenario, has benefits that expand beyond the community and gives bac[...]
Eco-Friendliness is Next to Godliness
What strikes me most about Central America are the dumps. Yes, the dumps, those places with the trash. Where I grew up in the United States, trash was out-of-sight, out-of-mind once the garbage truck came by. But here, dumps are rarely hidden and hardly contained, and for miles around you can see re[...]
November 15th, 2010 - 12:16 pm § in Good Ideas, Mexico
From Triggers to Trees: Palas Por Pistolas
The other day I received an email from GOOD magazine about a Mexican artist named Pedro Reyes. What makes Reyes so special that he should show up in my inbox? A couple of years ago he turned guns into trees. And no, I’m not joking. The city of Culiacán in western Mexico is rife with gang [...][...]
Combat Mosquitoes with Karate Moves
Sweet blood. That’s always been the reason people tell me I frequently get bit by mosquitoes. I’d like to know how to turn it sour. Mosquitoes have been rampant here in northern Mexico for the past five months, and although the amount of them are decreasing as the colder weather approach[...]
Blog Action Day, 2010: Water – How to Reach Eight Glasses a Day
This post is in honor of Blog Action Day today. Latin America contains 26% of the world’s water resources and hosts 6% of the world’s population. This means a lot; this means little. Unequal water distribution is not just spatial. It is temporal, through cycles of drought and flood. It [...]
