Deactivating Mines: Pacifying Nature
1995 Septiembre Nicaragua
Mined territories are one of the scars of all violent conflicts, whatever their origin and duration. Mines have been used massively since World War...

Hydroponic Farming: An Alternative For Everybody
1995 Junio Nicaragua
Felipa Rojas has become the owner of her own destiny. Although life has not been particularly generous to her as she grows older, she has found a stable...

Faith, Hope and Mung Beans
1995 Mayo Nicaragua
The mung bean is small and round, with a striking green color, like hope. And, like everything having to do with hope, it hides within its small size...

Banana Workers Put Shell on Trial
1995 Abril Nicaragua
In Galveston County, Texas' District Court 212, one case is astounding US justice because of the magnitude and seriousness of the accusations. Over...

Environmental Law: For the Future of All
1995 Febrero Nicaragua
When the Spanish conquerors reached what is today Nicaragua, they marveled at the opulence of life here: gigantic trees, unknown multicolored birds,...

BT: Chronicle of an Opportunity Lost
1995 Enero Nicaragua
For more than 40 years now, we have known that insects take ill and die just like any other animal, and we are also aware that some microbes are capable...

Eucalyptus: the Bessings of a Damned Tree
1994 Noviembre Nicaragua
Is it good to plant eucalyptus? Is it bad? Or does it depend on each specific case? Andrea Ortiz has a look not often seen among the Nicaraguan peasantry....

The Thousand and One Uses of Bamboo
1994 Octubre Nicaragua
The world demand for wood for both construction and the manufacture of cellulose, paper, resins, charcoal and a thousand other uses climbs daily. The...

SEVEN TREES FOR ANOTHER PARADISE
1994 Octubre Nicaragua
Ecological awareness is growing in Nicaragua and the rest of Central America. Nothing has such silent and profound influence in our lives as the...

"NIM": Nature's Own Insecticide
1994 Septiembre Nicaragua
When the Green Revolution, with its aggressive and short term agricultural production methods, spread throughout the world, it promoted a negative concept...

Mangrove Swamps: the Sea's Kindergarten
1994 Agosto Nicaragua
They get a lot of bad press they're not good for much except breeding mosquitoes and thus, malaria and other illnesses. But the truth is that mangrove...

The Marango Makes Magic in Water
1994 Julio Nicaragua
Current industry and technology would seem to have the conditions to confront all problems and satisfy all needs. But their responses and solutions...

The Sacred Jicaro Tree: An Economic Solution
1994 Mayo Nicaragua
As the old Mayan codes tell it, the jícaro tree grew out of the liberation of the people. Recent scientific research is finding that this tree offers...

Organic Agriculture: A labor of Love
1994 Abril Nicaragua
The green revolution, begun in the 1950s, was marketed at the time as the solution to all problems of hunger and production. Despite its pretensions...

Selling Sewage Sludge: A Dirty Deal
1994 Enero Nicaragua
They tore away our fruits, they cut our branches, they burned our trunks, and now they want to dry out our roots filling up our soils with toxic...

Biodiesel: The Miracle of a "Useless" Tree
1993 Diciembre Nicaragua
According to scientific data, "tempate" (Jatropha curcas L.) is an oleaginous bushy tree belonging to the Euforbiaceas family, which has more than 3,500...

Street Children--Mortgaging the Future
1993 Noviembre Nicaragua
At every traffic light, in the markets and shopping centers, wherever people gather together for religious processions, fairs, political demonstrations,...

Hope in Lechecuagos
1993 Octubre Nicaragua
Lechecuagos is a small and forgotten rural district located on the slopes of Nicaragua's Cerro Negro volcano, in the department of León. More than 7,000...

The Unending Calvary of Mothers of the Disappeared
1993 Julio Nicaragua
The war that devastated Nicaragua during the 1980s left more than 150,000 victims, including dead, disabled, widowed and orphaned. But there are still...

The World of Imprisoned Women
1993 Mayo Nicaragua
One of the most notable aspects of the Nicaraguan penal system is the tremendous gender imbalance. Of a total population of nearly 3,000, it's rare...