It is Saturday night. The little numbers on the bottom right-hand side of my screen read 1:09am…again. It’s probably time I went to bed and got some sleep, as I have to be up again in 5 ½ hours, but I wonder how I’m going to shift gears: bring my brain down from trying to [...]

The Medio Maraton Las Rosas is a half marathon held each year around the city of Antigua, Guatemala. I have been thinking about participating in this marathon since I first arrived here in Antigua, but knew in the back of my mind that by the time it came around I would find myself a suitable [...]

One morning, I woke up withthe word “Aquaponics” in my head…after spending the last few weeks researching and making contact with various experts, I am convinced that aquaponics could offer us an environmentally sustainable system to combat malnutrition in poor rural villages in Guatemala. I am now starting the learning and development phase, where I convert my friend’s backyard fishpond into an aquaponics experiment, and hopefully come up with something we can start building for low-cost using locally available materials.