One of the members of the extended family just talked to his uncle in the States. The uncle told him that there is a woman running for president and, if she wins, not only will she legalize all illegal immigrants but she will give them citizenship without having to wait the 5 years.

Will the last person to leave Nicaragua kindly turn out the lights?

Today, Scottish and Southern (a UK power company) announced the awarding of a contract for construction of a 500 megawatt wind power generation system off the UK coast. This is a big time wind plant...enough to become a major full time source, not just a peak load contributor.

We just put new tires on our "Jeep", the little Asia Rocsta that does all the hard work for the Geek Ranch. That got me thinking about building using recycled tires. In the book The Art of Natural Building there is an article about Earthships: An Ecocentric Model.

Once one of Nicaragua's principal exports, cotton was no longer being produced in the country -- come find out why production declined, and why there is now an effort to begin producing cotton again. Tomorrow's charla at the Casa Ben Linder will be on cotton in Nicaragua and the project of the

As Nicaragua enters the second week of a now bloody transport strike the common themes for the protesters and the general populace are, where is the Venezuelan oil money, why wont the government disclose the amounts they are receiving and how are these funds being used?

US NAVAL FLEET TO BE POSITIONED OFF THE COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA Written by Victor Figueroa Clark Tuesday, 13 May 2008

A recent mailing list post pointed to an article in the Bio-Nica on-line library. I just did a bit of exploring and found the site to be very impressive. Everything I found is in Spanish but that is no surprise. The documents are PDFs.

Here are but a few of the sections of the library:

• Eco-Tourism

see ya next time

iguana condos in the background