NICARAGUA’S TROPICAL TREASURES

NICARAGUA'S TROPICAL TREASURES There are places where rivers flood the imagination. In the tropics, they arc across continents, they wind towards hearts of darkness, they arrive at the sea in mile-wide deltas of dazzling brightness. TS Eliot called them strong brown gods, overflowing into legend. In Nicaragua, the Río San Juan…

Hardwood and softwood, what is the difference?

Hardwood and softwood, what is the difference? Hardwood is not necessarily a harder material (more dense) and a softwood is not necessarily a softer material (less dense). Different types of construction projects call for different kinds of timber, both hardwood and softwood are used for everything from structural to decorative.…

New 2015 Coconut Nursery is being planted.

New 2015 Coconut Nursery is well under way with 1000's of coconuts being planted. This is a very hands-on approach with maximum efforts producing maximum results.     The 2014 coconut plantation is seeing good health and growth on all trees. These dwarf variety coconut trees will grow between one…

3D technology helping power Nicaragua!

A team of UWindsor students are asking the public to help them fund their project to bring micro wind turbines to communities like those in Nicaragua where a struggle with rural electrification is at large. Kyle Bassett and Lucas Semple have designed a micro wind turbine which uses a 3D…

Remaking world trade?

By Tim Johnson McClatchy Foreign Staff June 18, 2015 SAN MIGUELITO, NICARAGUA—Colossal. Mammoth. Vast. There’s almost no other way to describe the proposal to build a 170-mile, inter-oceanic canal across Nicaragua, and while the plan has been greeted with widespread skepticism, powerful global forces may also coax the project forward. Those…
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