Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Recession or windows for new opportunities

I remember back in Karlskrona –Sweden while attending the master we had a deep discussion about how come there are so many already proven technologies, clean technologies, green procedures, etc and so disperse and never the less not implemented but in a few envisioned countries and corporations, and then we started to talk about many social and economic theories but ad the end we all concurred that the there must be a drastic shift in what rules our current way of life, most of our occidental way of life is ruled by neoliberal and an economic system based on consumism and non renewal energies.

As I rememberd the basic of policy making and that human behaviors will change and adapt if the conditions are given, change will ocurr in a faster time than we suspect, as the book “The New Economy of Nature , The quest to make Conservation Profitable” by Gretchen C.Daily and Katherine Ellison” : “just as there are threshold in ecosystem ,there are threshold in human behavior, times when cultural evolution moves unexpectedly rapidly. We saw that in dramatic progress in racial justice in the 1960s,the surprise decline of American birthrates in the 70s and the utterly unexpected fall of the Berlin wall and dissolution of the soviet union in the early 1990.

When the time is ripe, society can be transformed virtually overnight”. I am totally positive about this change that is happening now, in fact is GREAT!!,, we need it as society, we need it to reshape the whole thing and the fact that is taking place in the ;leader of our global economic current system the United States with a person that per se is a change for himself, I think that is not just healthy but really necessary, for this new process that we must face as society if we want to prevail in this planet

Sunday, February 08, 2009

On the sustainabilty track















Well, The last 4 months and my return to Costa Rica my home town had turn my life again 180 degrees, It was a real turn over , It was good experience working with Swedish Electrolux , had good times and help them on their regional marketing strategies focused on the benefits of more efficent home appliances, now, I am helping them but as a freelance, which is great , this let me work more strategiclly on my projects. here some pics of my last 4 months. the first one is a huge volcano by the offshore of Nicaragua, then Dominican Reupblic, my Flat in San Jose, my Eco/efficient car (hopefully I'll have on the future a Hidrogen car ! ,,jejej , hope sooner than later, anyway here is my alternative when I can not walk or take the Public tranportation system, mean while: I have this little peugeot 206 Natural Gas modified and with certified Co2 stiker for carbon mitigation, I am working in on a better alternative) then party night in San Jose and trying to make some exercise. And if you ever come to central america go to Buffalo Wings BW (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.Not in CR yet) , from one great friend and he is focusing the whole operation into sustainable process and practics, as i.e making and using Biodiesel , and the food is just great,, if you like spice ,this is the place. The night city picture is Guatemala City from my Hotel, yea, I know my Carbon footprint increase a lot,, and belive me I did calculated and I am in the process of offseting this. the last tree pictures is just a bit of the beauty of Costa Rica , Playa Tamarindo and Puerto Viejo at the Costarrican caribean, just little snacks of a country like this where 25% of its territory is protected ,every one have free education (up to universidad de Costa Rica) and one of the few on this planet without Army, ok, Adios amigos and PURA VIDA!,,Until the next one!

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