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Archive for February, 2009

Jaime Lehner, a Master’s student at the Presidio School of Management, a business school in San Francisco that focuses on sustainability, shares her thoughts on her trip with fellow Presidio students to Managua Nicaragua.
We began our adventure on the morning of December 30 in Managua, Nicaragua. Our transportation for the upcoming week arrived and [...]

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This time of year the mornings are clear bright blue, with almost cartoon-like exaggerations of puffy clouds, but by midday the clouds gather in dark masses and dissolve into an all-pervasive mist and then rain that soaks everything.
After over 2 hours driving with a reluctant taxi driver nervous of the muddy roads, we arrived at [...]

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Gerson, a Portland resident, shares two excerpts from his journal about his trip with Green Empowerment to Nicaragua with PSU students and faculty from Dec. 26, 2008 to Jan. 6, 2009.
We stayed mostly in the village of Bramadero, which is so tiny that it does not show up on Google Earth. We slept in [...]

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