Google’s Indie Games Accelerator (IGA) is a program for recognizing and assisting independent video-game startups in emerging markets.

In several previous articles I’ve described the work done by Senderos de México to rehabilitate trails in Jalisco, including several near Lake Chapala.

Manfred Meiners is a cinematographer, a photographer and a scuba diver from Guadalajara. He surprised local conservationists a few years ago when he published gorgeous photos of otters happily splashing in La Vega Dam near Teuchitlán.

In bygone years I wrote several articles for this newspaper describing my adventures rappelling down deep pits in a mountain “filled with caves” in Cerro Grande, part of the the Manantlán Biosphere Reserve, which is a 2,860-meter high mountain range located 150 kilometers southwest of Guadalajara, straddling the states of Jalisco and Colima.

Ask the average Tapatío (Guadalajara native) where you can find rolling hills covered with pine trees and a cozy cabin with a crackling fireplace. Most likely they will tell you to head for Tapalpa.

Wherever you go in Mexico, you see water tanks or tinacos on the rooftops.