Tonight at 8:30 pm, more than one hundred countries on every continent will be taking part in Earth Hour, which was founded by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in 2007 as a symbolic way of raising awareness about climate change and the world’s depleting resources. Big monuments around the world like Big Ben [...]
All posts for the month March, 2012
Costa Rica’s Coveted Ecological “Blue Flag” Awarded to Tulemar Beach
For the fifth consecutive year, Tulemar Beach has received the prestigious Blue Flag award for water quality and other ecological criteria from the National Blue Flag Commission. Located in Costa Rica’s central pacific coastal town of Manuel Antonio, the beach provides a unique experience for residents and visitors of the residential resort community of Tulemar. [...]
Posted by del mar on March 29, 2012
http://blog.4tulemar.com/?p=477
Día del Boyero
The second Sunday in March marks the annual celebration of Día del Boyero (Oxcart Driver’s Day). The festival takes place in San Antonio de Escazú; a suburb of San Jose. There is a colorful parade of oxcarts, and blessings of animals and crops by local priests. A Boyero is a person who guides a [...]
Posted by Emily on March 12, 2012
http://blog.4tulemar.com/?p=469
Costa Rica Named Among Top 5 Greenest Countries in the World
Costa Rica ranks as the fifth greenest country in the world, according to the study “Environmental Performance Index (EPI) 2012,” conducted by the universities of Yale and Columbia and published last week. Costa Rica is the only country outside Europe in the top 10 list that includes: Switzerland, Latvia, Norway, Luxembourg, Costa Rica, France, Austria, [...]
Posted by Emily on March 4, 2012
http://blog.4tulemar.com/?p=463
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