Jacqueline and Joseph Vargas are two brothers who live in San Venecia de San Carlos. They are interested in promoting a project to boost healthy lifestyle to the Costa Ricans. To carry out this idea, they decided to create...
Why does single-use plastics represent a problem for any country?
The overproduction of single-use plastics is a serious problem of garbage generation for most countries around the world. This is because, despite their very short usage period, typical plastic takes...
In 2015 when Upward Spirals first launched the Organic Directory, we were excited to find about 65 locations around Costa Rica to buy organic food.
Despite Costa Rica’s deserved reputation as a world leader in sustainability, we found it was...
Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism are terms that are often used interchangeably. Although ecotourism and sustainable tourism have great similarities, they have subtle differences.
EI Sustainable Tourism is that tourism modality that responds to the needs of the tourists and the...
In the last 18 months, Costa Ricans have been benefitted by a pricing model for net metering that enables them to generate and store extra sustainable energy in grids.
In 2016, the Environment and Energy Minister (MINAE) created a program...
A REDDISH glow usually pops up on the TURRIALBA volcano when it is in activity
TURRIALBA IS CONSIDERED AN UNPREDICTABLE VOLCANO BY THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY.
The sudden appearance of a little lake in Turrialba volcano caught everybody by surprise, especially the...
165 students wash their clothes with PURIFIED rain water
Water harvesting, that’s the method used by a group of 165 students of the University of Costa Rica as another choice to help the environment restore.
This plan consists of collecting, chlorinate,...
Cahuita National Park in Costa Rica is a good example of how the global warming is affecting the seashores.
Marcos Sánchez, one of the best biologists of Costa Rica, was interviewed after a conference held in a hotel at Cahuita...
Poas Volcano generated more than $1 million in visits until April this year.
Most of the tourist sites and tours are around the slopes of the volcanoes.
There are approximately 290 volcanoes in Costa Rica. Some of them are already extinct,...
Barbara Hendricks, a member of the Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, visited Costa Rica and announced a donation to support the climate change mitigation and adaptation plan.
The German minister arrived in Costa Rica last...
