Tech Soup Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Chepe in San Jose, Costa Rica. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! Newest Net2Local Groups. We’re a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. NetSquared Manila in the Philippines. NetSquared Honduras in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Several years ago, I had an opportunity to travel to Costa Rica with a group of artists. What started out as a personal art project has grown into a global community project that has created over 800 handmade cards carrying voices to and from the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Costa Rica, Niger, Namibia, America, Haiti and Afghanistan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

Or check out the photos from Kathy Adams who runs Empowerment International and has been sharing photos from Nicaragua and Costa Rica that show the impact of her organization's work. Another contributor to the site is Natalia who has shared some compelling photos of children beggars in from Afghanistan.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 8, 2013

If you liked the Rainforest iMax, you might also like our permanent exhibit on Costa Rica”. Use that valuable data to engage with them using the Amazon model: “If you like X, you might also like Y.”. That might be…. “If If your family enjoyed learning about wooly mammoths, they might also enjoy our new exhibit on cavemen.”. 3.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 11, 2007

Costa Rica 4. The HPI is calculated by adding the country's life expectancy with its life satisfaction divided by its ecological footprint. The top ranked countries were: 1. Colombia 3. Dominica 5. Honduras 8. Guatemala 9. El Salvador 10. Vincent and the Grenadines " The Index doesn’t reveal the ‘happiest’ country in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

When you give someone the gift of an acre of rainforest in Costa Rica, you're helping to protect and restore one of the world's most extraordinary yet highly threatened regions now and for future generations. Can't get much more pertinent for holiday hope than the gift of human beings caring for one another! Photo by Dmason.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Then, while I was in Costa Rica in May leading a retreat, I had been contemplating getting a Masters in Social Work for a while, I decided to sign up, and apply, and so I'm in graduate school right now. Initially, I had planned to take all of November off to think about what was going to be next for me, what was next on the horizon.

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Tech Soup Blog

MARCH 5, 2013

Four countries in Latin America now have e-waste laws or rules: Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. It has had 30 percent growth in mobile adoption over the last 10 years. Africa has a 1 percent recycling rate for mobile phones. Latin America.

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