#pura vida
Costa Rica has successfully ditched fossil fuels for over two months!
The Latin American country of Costa Rica has achieved an impressive milestone in green energy production by generating 100 per cent of its energy from renewable resources, with a combination of hydropower and geothermal for 75 days in a row.
Thanks to the favorable rainy conditions in the first months of the year, four of Costa Rica’s hydropower plants — Arenal, Cachí, La Angostura and Pirrís — are generating nearly enough electricity to power the entire country. Using a mix of geothermal, solar, and wind energy sources, the nation of 5 million inhabitants hasn’t needed an ounce of coal or petroleum to keep the lights on since December of 2014.What an extraordinary effort by a small nation! Way to go!
Oh wow, it’s almost as if dependency on fossil fuels is completely unnecessary and based entirely on a profit-driven capitalist system of corporate greed, or something.
~CR also has nationalized health care and no military~
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
—Dr. Seuss
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#ConoceCostaRica
Hermosa catarata a sólo 35 minutos del centro de San José. Los Chorros se localizan en Grecia; definitivamente un lugar para que visiten todos los amantes del aire libre sin tener que viajar demasiado lejos.
Beautiful waterfall just 35 minutes far from downtown San José. Los Chorros is located in Grecia a must-visit for those who love some fresh air without traveling too far.
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White-Headed Capuchin, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. © Michel Botman Photography, 2013.
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A boiling jungle in Costa Rica
It is an area of dense rainforest, but the foliage, it emerges steam that comes from boiling pools. There is no shortage of areas where mud pot boils, and where the temperature becomes unbearable. Just below the surface of the nearby volcano activity is present, but just give some clues. Rincón de la Vieja in Costa Rica is nothing usual combination of geothermal activity covered by dense jungle, they say, is one of the most fascinating corners of the entire country.
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View from Cerro Amigos
Cerro Amigos is the highest point (6,000ft) in the Monteverde reserve. On a clear day, you can see Arenal, the Pacific, and even across the border north to Nicaragua.
Photo: Dennis Tang
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Rio Celeste Falls.
One of the northernmost of Costa Rica’s 26 national parks, Tenorio Volcano is home to the Rio Celeste and this waterfall.
Photo: Bruce Thomson
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Rhinoceros beetle
Rhinoceros beetles can reach lengths of up to six inches and are found in multiple parks in Costa Rica. They are completely harmless—they can’t bite or sting. They may, however, freak you out.
Photo: Lyn Gatele
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Scarlet macaws. This distinctive parrot species can be seen in a few of Costa Rica’s preserves. The pair shown above was photographed near Carara National Park.
Photo: Andrew Morrell
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Explosion of 8 million flower petals over a town in central Costa Rica
…as part of a sony advert
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Surfing Costa Rica
People have been traveling to surf Costa Rica for decades—there are breaks to hit all along the Pacific coast, as well as a few on the Caribbean side.
Photo: Darren Johnson
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Green Lagoon, Irazú Volcano
Within one of the multiple craters at the summit of the volcano Irazú is this green lake, so colored on account of its chemical content.
Photo: Cristina Valencia
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Cocoa beans, raw ingredient of Costa Rican chocolate.
Many small-scale chocolate producers operate in Costa Rica, offering tours of their working facilities.
Photo: Everjean
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Monkey silhouettes
A pair of monkeys, mother and child, spotted at the luxury resort Hacienda Pinilla, on the Nicoya Peninsula.
Photo: Paul Kehrer
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Agujitas River at Drake Bay
The relatively short Agujitas River rises in the forested hills of the Osa Peninsula and empties into Drake Bay just north of Corcovado National Park.
Photo: Trish Hartmann
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Hummingbird
Costa Rica is home to over 800 known species of birds. This hummingbird was photographed in Alajuela.
Photo: Jon Fife
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North Bend teacher gets fellowship to study sea turtles in Costa Rica
Katrina Alegado, an eighth grade science teacher at Twin Falls Middle School, has been accepted into Ecology Project International’s Marine Education Fellowship in Costa Rica, April 18 to 25.
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