Environmentally Friendly Project by Alvaro Chacon V.

This project is about a wood furniture design company that decided to do a research on the route that one tree follows after being cut down. It’s a very interesting initiative for me especially because there are Costa Rican people connected with the idea and that’s the kind of news that we have to know.
This project is located in a small indigenous community in the tropical forest of north east Nicaragua with the idea to find adequate solutions for the development of the industry at a time of concern about climate change.
The project picked up Nicaragua from a list of countries that included Tanzania, Tajikistan, Vanuatu, Tonga and Yemen well know all round the world by their richness in natural and wood resources
The research showed that in Nicaragua 99% of the trees that are cut down are to make way for planting and pasture land and only 1% is cut down for its wood from which just the trunk is used, while in Costa Rica 94% is used on different kind of products and just the 6% is wasted.
In the project developed every part of the tree were going to be used: the leaves, the bark, the branches and the roots. They designed furniture, craft products, lamps, planks, plywood and energy.
The indigenous were taught with new technologies to improve the process of wood industry and they passed on their knowledge with the idea of finding a balance to create a new environmentally friendly process of development. Nowadays Nicaragua’s indigenous from the community can be seen driving Mercedez and BMW because of the high profits.
The community, the people and the government were transformed in a positive way and they began to exploit their forests in a sustainable way.