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Inclusion 2.0: workshops ask Costa Rican businesses to open new doors
“The little girl never grows up.”
The psychologist José Luis García has just posed a question: in the 2001 Russell Crowe movie “A Beautiful Mind,”...
Grassroots work for an inclusive public sector
An office where fingerprints are processed. A training for the administrators of public ports. The meeting room of a municipal government.
Sometimes, the work to...
Costa Rica’s advances towards inclusion—with some detours
Over the past three decades, Costa Rica has made important legislative advances towards greater inclusion and respect for LGBTIQ+ rights.
Having moved from the arrests...
Can the government of Costa Rica rescue rural tourism?
Text by Mónica Quesada Cordero and Katherine Stanley Obando, with additional reporting by Mayela López and Thomas Enderlin. Sixth part in our series on...
What would Costa Rica be like without rural tourism?
Text by Mónica Quesada Cordero and Katherine Stanley Obando, with additional reporting by Mayela López and Thomas Enderlin. Part Five in our April series...
Third in our April series on rural community tourism in Costa Rica. Read Part One, “The wisdom that comes with a life on the...
Part two in our April series on rural community tourism in Costa Rica. Read Part One here.
Birdsong and warm mountain sunlight flood the small...
The final installment in our four-part series on education and the pandemic in Costa Rica, inspired by a 2006 series by our co-founders that...
Third in a four-part series on education and the pandemic in Costa Rica, inspired by a 2006 series by our co-founders that followed three...
Read the first part of the series here: "A harvest turned upside down."
Máximo Palacios, 39, is a lean, quiet man with a slow smile....
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Why not this? Composting in Costa Rica
What would it take for more people to take up composting in Costa Rica? Where else in the world is this practice being implemented...