Team GIgante and team CO2 converge on a design. We like having meetings at the beach! One of our favorite beaches in Nicaragua is Gigante Beach where friends of ours have a restaurant and a big vision for coastal development…
4+8=12 It’s a full house!
I guess it runs in the family. Once again our house was filled to capacity with adopted stray animals. The first of these was a very skinny, pathetic, skin and bones puppy which was abandoned on the corner lot. We…
Julios wedding
There is a moment in every company’s life when it transitions from being a bunch of people with a shared goal and who collect a pay check from the same place, to being a “family”. This feeling is reinforced both…
South Beach and Sustainatopia
Barely five days after returning home to Nicaragua from Amsterdam and Paris, we are on the road again, heading to Miami for the “Sustainatopia” conference. Enough time at home to unpack, do laundry, check in with the dogs and cats and pack and…
Paris by day…
A night time walk in Paris
First, Mozart requiem in the St Germain area complete with the Versailles choir. Listen and watch here: http://youtu.be/W6JO6mjg5GM
Paris – First play, then work
Bullet train from Paris to Rotterdam … 3 hours! (This trip used to take about 9 hours on the regular train…) Paris is of course, Ben’s “hometown”. He grew up and went to school in Paris until he moved to…
IMPACT2: Paris conference on impact investing.
We are here for IMPACT2, which is the first conference on impact finance and impact investing in France. SOCAP in San Francisco (August 2011) yielded one of our key investors — Groupe SOS, based in Paris. Led by a charismatic…