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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>
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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>
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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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		<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>Curubanda: History and future of a working farm turned ecotourism lodge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curubanda Lodge is a small ecotourism lodge in the heart of a working farm—Finca Nueva Zealandia&#8211;in the Costa Rican highlands. Its four modest but comfortable guest rooms are within spitting distance of the farm’s dairy, chickens wind their way through the gardens, and on your way back to your room you might have to push [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curubanda Lodge: Slipping and sliding to the waterfall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Van Rheenen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Don’t be afraid,” our guide tells us. “It’s a little steep and slippery on the way to the waterfall, but the horses know the way.” We’ve already come up a trail so muddy the horses sank in past their knees. There were stretches so steep I’d been hugging my horse’s neck to keep upright. But [...]]]></description>
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