Guaranteed Tips and Happy Costa Ricans

San Jose Nicholas Kristof did a column in the Times in his usual didactic, rah-rah fashion trumpeting the happiness of Costa Rican people (http://bit.ly/6i0csw).  He cites a couple of different “surveys” where Costa Ricans self-evaluate and cobbles this together with the point that in 1949 the government shutdown its army and investigated more in [...]

Biodiversity and Technology

Monteverde After working all morning we drove a couple of three hours to San Elena and Monteverde and the cloud forests, finding ourselves surprisingly rising above the beautiful bright to a land of rain, wind, and, happily, rainbows.  We were blocked from the Nacional Biological Reserve because trees were falling, but we were not [...]

Solidarity Tax Financing for Low Income Housing

Central America For the next couple of weeks I’m going to be embedded in Central America, having cashed a horde of frequent flier miles to get to San Jose en route to Nicaragua and then Honduras, where ACORN International expects to open its 8th country operation, if all goes well in meetings to come.  [...]

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