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Organizaciones comunitarias y sociales
El Astillero, Tola 3441 seguidores
Empowering communities for sustainable development
Sobre nosotros
Casa Congo is a sustainability hub in El Astillero, Nicaragua, where the local community, volunteers and experts come together to create projects focused on climate change and socio-economic development. Located on the Pacific coast, only steps away from the Chacocente Wild Refuge, our facilities are built in harmony with nature and to support Casa Congo’s multidisciplinary programs. Our beach front hub consists of a workshop, a permaculture garden, a turtle nursery, a coworking space and private residences or coliving spaces to host volunteers. Casa Congo is in the process of opening a second hub in Palenque, Mexico. We promote knowledge sharing and welcome people from all over the world to visit Casa Congo and make an impact.
Sector
Organizaciones comunitarias y sociales
Tamaño de la empresa
De 11 a 50 empleados
Sede
El Astillero, Tola
Tipo
Organización sin ánimo de lucro
Fundación
2017
Especialidades
Education, Agroecology, Sustainable Design, Bamboo Construction, Ocean Conservation, Community Development y Waste Recycling
Ubicaciones
Empleados en Casa Congo
Actualizaciones
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3441 seguidores
2 semanas Editado
📣 Casa Congo is proud to release our documentary film focused on the incredible life and work of Las Tejedoras, 17 Nicaraguan women who transform plastic waste into art to generate income for the local community and protect our oceans 🌊 📆 Save the date: 20 November 2024, 6 - 8PM 📍 Legance HQ, Via Broletto 20, Milan - Aperitivo 🍷 - Documentary exclusive private viewing 📽️ - Art auction with 5 unique tapestries from Las Tejedoras 🪡 📬 RSVP: casacongodocumentary@dpg385.comA special thanks to Legance for hosting the event and for having supported our NGO with probono legal services for the last 3 years. Thanks to our partners and sponsors National Geographic, Shiseido, DHL, Pictet Group, Banca Etica, Unispace, WOD - Women in Office Design, Francesca Liberatore, Asika and Rockflower for being on this journey with us. Una bolsa menos, una tortuga más!🐢 More info on the project: https://lnkd.in/g3rTp5yz - Casa Congo ha compartido esto
11.388 seguidores
3 semanas
The Built by Nature Prize will be an important element of the evening programming at our upcoming Annual Summit #BbN24 (November 7, Amsterdam) and we're delighted to welcome our winner and runners-up as they join us in celebrating their innovations in biobased construction material: 🌟 From Singapore, Alireza Javadian from first-place Prize Winner Widuz -- a range of high-performance structural products from bamboo; 🌟 Nicholas Kaspareck from Casa Congo (bamboo-adobe housing programmes in Nicaragua and Mexico); 🌟 Elementerre's Doudou DEME, co-owner of #LMNTR in Senegal (locally sourced clay and Typha materials); 🌟 Armor Gutiérrez Rivas from Sugarcrete (a UK/India enterprise upcycling sugarcane waste into building elements). The map depicted below shows the global scope of Prize submissions (check out this interactive feature at https://builtbn.org/prize along with full descriptions of the entries) -- and we're pleased that our winners are joining us from overseas to showcase their materials and ideas, answer your questions, and build connections. Join us in welcoming them and finding out more about what the leading edge of biobased development looks like. Yale University's Mae-ling Lokko will take a moment to share her experience as a jury member of the Built by Nature Prize 2024, offering valuable perspectives on the innovative projects from this year’s winners. The main theme of the #BbN24 evening, "Investing in a Timber and Biobased Future" will hightlight the investor perspective, with Michael Batley from Systemiq Ltd. and Laurence Desmazières Partner at ICAWOOD sharing their insights. Paul Brannen, Director of Public Affairs at the The European Confederation of Woodworking Industries, will be front and centre in a fireside chat on the EU regulatory landscape; and we are very pleased to welcome Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Global Leader of Climate & Energy, WWF to deliver the opening address. This means there'll be a lot of inspiring and relevant content; you'll find programme details here https://builtbn.org/summit. Only two weeks to go -- register soon#regenerativeconstruction #sustainableinvestment #buildingpolicy #prize
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📣 The Material Impact Passport (MIP) prototype is finally ready! After 15 months in the making with 6 students and 2 professors from Alta Scuola Politecnica, we're proud to showcase this tool that brings together sustainability and blockchain technology to provide transparency and traceability in the construction supply chain 👷♀️🎍 Thank you Enrico Bonzano for partnering with us to experiment the MIP on the lifecycle of BNEXT composite wood products. 🎬 Check it out: https://lnkd.in/g9Rfx5aM📨 Get in touch if you'd like to apply the MIP to your building solutions and quickly gain environmental, social and financial benefits. We're just getting started... Alessandra Oppio Andrea Tuni Francesco Bruschi Alexandra Kaspareck Laura Ginestretti Wendy Lorena Rodríguez Castro Beatrice Pipperi
Material Impact Passport - ASP Project XIX Cycle
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2 meses Editado
🙏 Thank You DHL for volunteering with Casa Congo in another beach cleanup and removing over 400 pounds of trash! Stay tuned for our documentary film that will soon be released to highlight challenges and solutions around plastic waste in Nicaragua 🎥 Hitzel López Jiménez Nora Madriz Manuel Cortez -
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📣 Construyendo Sueños 🎍 Our dream continues, thanks to the Built by Nature prize. The Casa Congo team is proud of this achievement and looks forward to growing our bamboo social housing program in Central America and start new pilot projects in Africa. 📽 If you have 2 mins to spare and want to check out the incredible potential of bamboo as biobased building solution for all income classes: https://lnkd.in/gfjfrwWuLet's build bamboo homes, economies and ecosystems for everyone! #bambooisgrowing #sustainabledevelopment
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5 meses
Yesterday, we gave you the NEWS: announcing the first-place winner and runners-up of the Built by Nature Prize. Today, it's the FULL STORY of our Prize journey: our Prize Magazine provides more detailed descriptions of the innovative biobased material solutions, our judging panel, the materials submitted and their regions of origin. Read more about: 🏆 Our €250,000 first place Prize winner: Singapore-based company Widuz and its bamboo product solutions. And our three Prize runners-up, receiving €50,000 each in funding: 💚 KuNa, from Casa Congo, a bamboo-adobe housing programme in Nicaragua and Mexico. 💚 Elementerre, #LMNTR, based in Senegal, using clay and Typha to manufacture load-bearing bricks and insulating boards. 💚 Sugarcrete®, developed by University of East London, upcycling sugarcane waste into sturdy building elements. The Prize Magazine also features each of our 11 finalists and their remarkable innovations: 👉 BlueBlocks B.V., Netherlands, Seaweed boards 👉 Ecovon, Ghana, Coco fibre panels 👉 GreenJams, India, Straw blocks 👉 IndiNature Ltd, UK, Hemp insulation 👉 istraw GmbH&Co.KG, Germany, Straw panels 👉 Lanarq EIRL, Chile, Sheep wool insulation 👉 Modulina Straw Panels, Lithuania, Straw panels 👉 MycoTile Ltd, Kenya, Mycelium boards 👉 Plantd, Inc, USA, Grass boards 👉 Strawcture Eco, India, Straw boards 👉 Urban Machine, USA, Secondary lumber machine Visit our Prize page at https://builtbn.org/prize, and please join us again in congratulating all those organisations who have submitted their ideas to help us transform an industry... because when it comes to decarbonisation of our built environment and using more regenerative biobased materials working in unison with nature, we're all winners#decarbonisation #sustainableconstruction #bamboo #mycelium #straw #sheepswool #hemp #Typha #adobe #cocofibre #sugarcanebagasse
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7 meses
Casa Congo is a sustainability hub that incubates community enterprises to foster economic development and environmental restoration, co-founded by #UBCForestry MASc student Sol Lewites (Rodriguez). Sol led the delivery of project KuNa which is a bamboo social housing program that introduced bamboo as a safe, resilient and sustainable alternative to traditional concrete brick housing in Nicaragua. Learn more about Casa Congo in our Q&A with Sol: https://bit.ly/3Ue1DMZ 🔗 -
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Casa Congo is thrilled to announce that our bamboo social housing program KuNa has been selected as one of the 15 semi-finalists out of 297 applicants for the Built by Nature prize. The prize is a global competition for innovative biobased construction solutions aimed to decarbonize the built environment at scale. Our gratitude goes to the funders who supported our journey so far and to the communities who came together to make it happen. Read more about our project here: https://lnkd.in/gZvBpjzA #bamboo #housingcrisis #sustainabledevelopment