Exciting New Developments

Some exciting developments have occurred over the past few weeks in Nicaragua:

1) At our workshop and home-base on the Caribbean coast, Bluefields, the blueEnergy team dramatically increased the solar capacity that powers the technical school we work with, and the location where we build our wind turbines:

Trojan Panels

Connecting the Panels

2) blueEnergy has made great strides toward creating the Centro Ecológico Regional de Capacitación Ambiental, or Regional Ecological Center for Environmental Training. The acronym, CERCA (close), embodies blueEnergy's vision of creating a green-collar economy on the Caribbean coast, and facilitating innovation in a region with extremely few entrepreneurial opportunities:

Preparing for the expansion into new workspace for water filtration construction

3) The most rewarding new accomplishment, is the installation of a second electric system in the community of Kakabila. I spent several weeks in this community, and feel personal reward from seeing this new installation which powers the health center for the first time in its history:




As the holidays approach, I've been learning more and more about how in the non-profit world survival is everything. Every group's development model relies upon whether it will be around the following year--and as innovative, driven, and passionate the people and projects within the organization are, exciting projects make the most impact when the organization has enough capital stability to focus on improving its services.

Happy Holidays!