I like to interact on a personal level, think critically, provoke conversation and and encourage people to be happy in the moment. These qualities often bring me to the table as a leader in change in a compassionate, inclusive, and flexible manor.
Put me on top a a snowy mountain peak and my thoughts are clear, my problems are few, and my heart is smiling.
I want to see more than anything people begin to take nature into account as they perform their daily actions, show her respect, stop indulging in frivolouse materials, take time to breath and appressiate the beauty in simplicity.
I have been enganging projects intended to change peoples lives since 2005. The first endeavor was to build a house for a boy named Alix Fabian Firmin Estrada. His father was a close friend of mine with and infectious engery and sincere smile, who passes away in a fishing accident where he lived in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua. In response a group of friends and I raised money and built a house for his son. This experience opend our eyes to our ability to offer aid in Central America. We followed up the next year driving a full size school bus from oregon to Nicaragua. This trip was largly fueled on artisan biodiesel, and our goal was to provide the information to organizations and students so that home brew biodiesel could catch on in Central America as it was around the west coast. Two international conferences, three processors, and 100+ spanish manuals distributed effectively started the small scale production of biodiesel in Honduras, and Nicaragua. This core team has continued exercising our efforts towards creating positive changes for the betterment of society and the environment. We are now dedicating our time to attempting to make a sweeping change in agricultural practices in Guatemala. This is exciting to me because agriculture has roots in the foundation of societal interaction with the environment. I feel that sustainable changes in farming practices has the potential to create a conciouse shift and re-aligne human actions to better fit within the functioning limits of the ecosystem. Cheers to the hard work that will be needed to achieve this change, I look forward to it.
