I recently found this article about centenarians living on the Nicoya Peninsula, one of the worlds few Blue Zones.  There are three other regions that have been identified as Blue Zones – Okinawa, Sardinia and Loma Linda, California, where people live longer than anywhere in the world.  Check out this great article and video below […]

AFP: Costa Rica tops happiness, ‘green living’ poll SAN JOSE (AFP) — Costa Rica is the happiest place on earth, and one of the most environmentally friendly, according to a new survey by a British non-governmental group. The New Economics Foundation looked at 143 countries that are home to 99 percent of the world’s population […]

Happiness is…living green in Costa Rica | Entertainment | Reuters By Barbara Lewis LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Costa Rica is very nearly paradise, not just for holiday-makers lounging on its beaches, but for its citizens who are extremely satisfied with their lot and also have a tiny carbon footprint. The combination has earned the central […]

Junquillal beach on Costa Rica’s Pacific coastline is one of the country’s most important nesting beaches for leatherback turtles. But because the beach is not a protected area, illegal egg harvesting is a major problem. To reduce the number of poached leatherback nests, WWF is developing alternative income sources for the local community, such as […]

Op-Ed Columnist – (No) Drill, Baby, Drill – NYTimes.com By THOMAS L. FRIEDMANPublished: April 11, 2009 (No) Drill, Baby, Drill Sailing down Costa Rica’s Tempisque River on an eco-tour, I watched a crocodile devour a brown bass with one gulp. It took only a few seconds. The croc’s head emerged from the muddy waters near […]

Costa Rica newspaper: A.M. Costa Rica: Your English language daily news source Wall Street legend Kaufman eyes investment market hereSpecial to A.M. Costa Rica The latest entrant to the Costa Rican real estate market is Wall Street’s Henry Kaufman, famous since 1957 when he took over the largest bond specialist unit of the New York […]

By Will Raap Over thirty years ago as part of my graduate work I traveled to England to research the UK “garden city” movement where new cities were developed after WWII creating village centers surrounded by protected green belts. Gardening areas and small farms were planned into these new cities. British planners knew that gardens […]

S/R 38: Cuba’s Second Revolution (Will Raap) by Will Raap For several years I have been hearing about another revolution in Cuba. This time it involved farming and the food system. For much of the 1990s, small organic farms were providing increasing amounts of Cuba’s food. They were responding to the economic emergency of 1989–90 […]

Here is a great article written by my friend Tom Peifer. Tom is an agroecologist and he runs a non-profit called El Centro Verde and he has developed methods and educational programs around managing farms and forests while making the best use of soil, energy, water and other resources. Culture Change – Home Getting out […]