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When your talent is dreaming big
Sometimes, you’re drawn to another person by his talents or skill.
For her, it was the sheer scale of his dreams, and the way he...
From multilingual chatter to the songs of birds
Even when he was at home in Bolivia, his passport was always within reach, a journey always being planned: to forests, beaches, deserts, mountains...
They go it alone, like schoolteachers: the forest their classroom, the tourists their students. When the tourists disappeared, they kept going out, walking the...
What is your first memory of a book in your hands?
Your fingers trailing along a shelf, touching the spines? That distinct, strangely loud sound...
Heat explodes in the mouth: he laughs as understanding dawns over a visitor's face when she recognizes that what she is tasting is a...
It’s a miracle that rivers exist at all.
That’s what don Hernán Ramírez Alfaro has to say, with the song of running water behind his...
Who makes the air we breathe?
Trees, of course. But who keeps the trees from being cut down? Do we recognize those people? Do they...
Why do they love the soil?
Because it gives them freedom.
So many people in this world don’t even have a place to plant...
Rebeca. Ariel. Ingrid. Gabriela. Silvia.
Rebeca surrounds herself in flashcards and pens and laminated charts, even if she is the only one who can touch...
What did you eat for your schoolroom lunches?
Chicken and garbanzos on top of white rice in a crowded city school? Spoon-shaped orbs of melon...
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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...