The National Theater: June Schedule of Events
June 2011 schedule of events (in English) for Costa Rica’s National Theater, located in downtown San Jose.
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Community Service Programs in Costa Rica
While in Costa Rica, teens hike volcanoes, learn Spanish, and observe the planet’s rarest flora and fauna. Most tours are balanced, allowing young adults time with their peers, host families, and community members. They work, practice Spanish, and tour the country.
Reforestation and Turtle Patrols on the Osa Peninsula
Since our previous report in February, the Frontier Osa project has continued with their important environmental work, which carries out groundbreaking surveys within Costa Rica’s remote habitats, helping to conserve some of the country’s most mysterious creatures.
Costa Rica’s government vows better food safety
The government has announced new guidelines to strengthen the surveillance in agricultural food production and improve sanitary conditions in places where food is prepared and sold.
500 houses to get solar panels as part of clean energy project
As part of a pilot program to promote clean energy, the roofs of 500 homes in Costa Rica will receive solar panels that can produce electricity for the company Nacional de Fuerza y Luz (CNFL).
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
I grew up on the Great Lakes in the American Mid-west, and recall some tremendous thunderstorms. But the unprecedented late-May deluge here in northern California was the strangest storm I’ve ever seen. People were so freaked out by the sustained cloudburst that the joke around town the next day was that the end of the [...]
Pura Vida Horoscope May 30 – June 5
Gemini is challenged with not over-thinking, Virgo is rich in energy and focus, and Sag needs to examine a partnership – what is your horoscope for this week?
Creation Is Not the Big Bang
Though the sky is clear overhead and sunshine bathes the land, clouds have banked up against the foothills, with the look of an impending thunderstorm. Alongside the creek at the upper end of the parkland, the wind suddenly roars in, whipping the new foliage and dumping a lot of spring matter into the stream. It [...]
Cars kill more people in Latin America than crime and violence
Traffic accidents kill more people in Latin America than crime and violence and are now widely reported as the region’s top concern.
Amnesty International points fingers at human rights development in the Americas
Harassment of indigenous people, violence against women, and killings of journalists in the Americas. Those are some of the concerns Amnesty International has raised in a newly released report on human rights on the continent.
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