Tag: <span>INSO</span>

Let’s ‘Ixnay on the Hombre’ but intelligently… and with love.

Mexico is one of the most bio- and culturally diverse countries on the planet – its future depends very much on the people that lead it. My internship time was split four months in Mexico City and one month in Oaxaca City, working with CEMDA and INSO, respectively. The experience in …

I come from down in the valleys

Yes the title is a Bruce Springsteen reference. In June I arrived in Oaxaca to start my internship at the Instituto de la Naturaleza y la Sociedad de Oaxaca or INSO. Nervous? Yes. Prepared? probably. Spanish language skills? Not quite there, but working on it. During my first day I was taken under the wing …

¿Hay agua o no hay agua? La situación en la ciudad de Oaxaca de Juárez, México

Publicado originalmente en La Voz, Edición Abril 2012. Por Ariadne Prior-Grosch El agua es sagrada, fuente de vida y cultura. Donde no hay agua, no hay vida. En varias partes del mundo, el desarrollo, la migración a ciudades grandes y el cambio climático esta afectando la disponibilidad del agua. Este …