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	<title>Living Abroad in Costa Rica &#187; Sustainable Development</title>
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		<title>Artist’s retreat in Costa Rica by architect Gianni Botsford</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2011/02/artist%e2%80%99s-retreat-in-costa-rica-by-architect-gianni-botsford/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the weather turns cold up north and I’m kicking myself for not buying that plot of land on Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, I start dreaming of what kind of house I would have built there (and still may, Economy willing). If I ever become a landowner, I&#8217;ll humbly ask Italian-born architect Gianni Botsford to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica treehouse community on ABC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt and Erica Hogan&#8217;s sustainable treehouse community down near Costa Rica&#8217;s Osa Peninsula is getting amazing press these days, and I&#8217;m not talking about my profile of them in the third edition of Living Abroad in Costa Rica (which hit the bookstores this week) or my post on this blog, Life in the Costa Rica [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parklands in Costa Rica help reduce poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guanacaste]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recently released report from Georgia State University gives us yet another reason to protect the rainforest: parklands, it turns out, can also help with economic development. Studying data from Costa Rica and Thailand, researchers concluded that national parks in developing countries can actually help to reduce poverty in the areas surrounding the preserves. &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tico wins prize for work to halt shark finning</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/05/tico-awarded-prize-for-work-to-halt-shark-finning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[environmental activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pretoma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago Tico environmental activist Randal Arauz was in San Francisco to claim a Goldman Foundation prize for his work to help stop shark finning in Costa Rica. The prize this year went to six environmental activists around the world; each recipient received US$150,000 to continue their grassroots efforts. Shark finning is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old biologists never die, they just develop DNA scanners</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/03/dan-janzen-pioneering-conservationist-now-developing-dna-scanner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guanacaste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caroline Fraser]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ray Beise of Pura Jungla sent me a link to a great interview with Daniel Janzen, the pioneering conservationist who helped create the 300,000-acre Area de Conservación Guanacaste and proved that denuded tropical forests can be brought back from the brink. In Yale&#8217;s Environment 360 magazine, Janzen is interviewed by Caroline Fraser, author of Rewilding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quien is mas treehouse? Life in the Costa Rican trees</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/01/quien-is-mas-treehouse-life-in-the-trees-in-costa-rica/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2010/01/quien-is-mas-treehouse-life-in-the-trees-in-costa-rica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the old Saturday Night Live skit, ‘Quien es mas macho?’ The contestants included Jack Lord from Hawaii-5-0 and Ricardo Montalban, who consistently came out on top. Here we have a variation on that theme, with all the Costa Rican treehouses I’ve visited vying for the honor of being treehouser than thou. One thing I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Avatar’ creators fund reforestation project in Costa Rica</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/%e2%80%98avatar%e2%80%99-creators-fund-reforestation-project-in-costa-rica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giant Studios, creators of Avatar (a film released on December 18th), have come forward with the final infusion of funds needed for a reforestation project in Costa Rica Avatar, directed by James Cameron, stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Stephen Lang.  Set in the year 2154 on Pandora, a fictional inhabited Earth-like moon, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turtle trouble in Costa Rica</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/turtle-trouble-in-costa-rica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guanacaste]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a great article in the New York Times in November about the plight of sea turtles in Costa Rica, home to some of their favorite nesting beaches. I was recently in Tamarindo, a town just south of Playa Grande and its Las Baulas National Park (a baul is a leatherback turtle, which can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobbed by grasshoppers in a Guanacaste treehouse</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/mobbed-by-grasshoppers-in-a-guanacaste-treehouse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/mobbed-by-grasshoppers-in-a-guanacaste-treehouse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a house up in the trees, open to the elements, with a view of a pristine stretch of Costa Rican beach. It’s Paul and Jeanne Pidcock’s house, on the Pura Jungla eco-reserve, where Ray Beise took a dried-up cow pasture and lovingly reforested it into something lush and beautiful. He sells lots to like-minded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boom time greed and condo ghost towns in Playas del Coco</title>
		<link>http://www.livingabroadincostarica.com/blog/2009/12/boom-time-greed-and-condo-ghost-towns-in-playas-del-coco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Do you live here?” I asked.

“For better or worse,” he said, “I guess I do. Or I’m trying.”

He’d bought a pre-construction condo from Mapache and, four years later, it still wasn’t built.]]></description>
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