Café Barista Recycles Used Coffee Grounds
Café Barista is the Guatemalan coffee house chain equivalent to what Starbucks is in the U.S. more or less. I don’t visit …
Moto trucks are the new utility vehicles in Antigua Guatemala
I don’t want to call names or anything like that, but I must say there’s an imperialistic country the north of Guatemala …
Recicladora Antigua – Reduce Reutiliza Recicla
There are many recycling approaches that people use in Guatemala. Interesting enough, at first glance it may seem that there are NO …
Recycling Around Antigua Guatemala
Often I have shared with you the different recycling programs available around Antigua Guatemala. There are many recycling approaches that people use …
Recyling Magazines in Guatemala
This is just one of the ways we recycle magazines in Guatemala and, as always, it has to be colorful. I found …
Guatemalan Coffee-sacks-style Satchels
These Guatemalan coffee-style satchels are perfect for coffee lovers… and they are ecological too since they’re made from recycled coffee sacks. Besides …
Antigua’s First Recycling Program
A few weeks ago I introduced you to the recycling truck of La Antigua Guatemala and hi-lighted the fact that it runs …
Recycling Bins in Finca Filadelfia
Slowly but surely recycling is becoming a reality in Antigua Guatemala. Can anybody explain me what is the Guatemalan fascination with toneles …
Solar Water Heaters, Clear Energy
Water heaters is another important area in Guatemala where one can bring clear energy and help the environment and the economy. That …
Proyecto Biodiesel Antigua Guatemala
This is what I shared with you before about the Antigua’s Biodiesel Project: Antigua Guatemala is full of Quixotes who do not …
The Recycling Truck of Antigua Guatemala
Recycling the recycling truck of La Antigua Guatemala. Keep reading and I promise the previous sentence will make sense. My dear green …
Guatemala Green: Recycling Hi-Tech Junk
I have always believe that Green should be the color of Guatemala; green should be the flag and all other national iconography …
Recycling Sewing Machines
I have talked about the recycling done in La Antigua Guatemala before with Haves and Have-Nots, Public Enemy Number 1, Guatemalan-style Salt …
Chicken Buses are The Second Life of School Buses
Unless you have taken the path of La Marche de l’empereur, you haven’t heard about how everyone is living a virtual second life through a community web site. Well, old and retired school buses from the U.S. get to live a real second life as camionetas (the street name for public transit buses in Guatemala). Revue Magazine had an in-depth article about The Birth of a Camioneta (available as a PDF download) which detailed step-by-step how an old retired school bus became a powerful camioneta ready for the curvy roads of the mountain ranges of Guatemala.