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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Bush swaps debt for nature Costa Rica and Guatemala deals could point to common ground on climate crisis	Glenn Hurowitz	17 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, Costa Rica, deforestation, international politics, politics, rainforests (all these topics)

Forgive and For Get U.S. agrees to forgive $26 million debt in Costa Rica debt-for-nature swap		17 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 8:52 AM on 17 Oct 2007 The U.S. federal government has agreed to a debt-for-nature swap with Costa Rica that will see $26 million of the Central American country's debt owed to the U.S. go instead toward conservation of its rainforests. The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International each donated about $1.2 million to the effort while the U.S. is financing $12.6 million of it. Those fu ...
Topics: Costa Rica, international politics, news, rainforests, United States (all these topics)

Mongabay highlights for June '07 Some good news and some bad news	biodiversivist	29 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biodiversity, biofuels, Brazil, Costa Rica, endangered species, energy, extinction (all these topics)

Stuck in the Middle with Fuel As its neighbors back biofuels, Central America gears up for business	Eliza Barclay	14 Dec 2006	Main Dish
Driving down either of El Salvador's two principal highways, you're almost sure to end up braking behind a pickup truck that's jammed with people standing shoulder to shoulder. Occasionally these rural taxis are new vehicles, but most are rickety, rusted, and running on antiquated engines and exhaust-spewing diesel. Even though 48 percent of Salvadorans live below t ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, energy, ethanol, Guatemala (all these topics)

Down to EARTH José A. Zaglul, EARTH University prez, answers readers' questions		09 Dec 2005	InterActivist
José A. Zaglul, president of EARTH University. Can you give us some examples of how EARTH University graduates have promoted sustainability in their home countries? -- Tom Yuill, Madison, Wis. With nearly 1,000 graduates to date, the success stories are numerous and inspiring. Graduates are implementing innovative and sustainable agriculture techniques, founding companies, creating jobs, and improving ...
Topics: Costa Rica, education, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

Learn It Up José A. Zaglul, EARTH University prez, answers Grist's questions		05 Dec 2005	InterActivist
José A. Zaglul. What work do you do? I am the president of EARTH University, a private, not-for-profit, international institution. What does your organization do? Our mission is to promote sustainable development in the tropics through the creation of professionals with strong values, solid technical and scientific skills, entrepreneurial spirit, and social and environmental consciousness. When EARTH opened ...
Topics: Costa Rica, education, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview (all these topics)

See the Forest for the Fees Tropical nations want payment for protecting carbon-sinking rainforests		29 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
See the Forest for the Fees Tropical nations want payment for protecting carbon-sinking rainforests "Cough up the dough, Mr. West, or the forest gets it!" OK, we're being a little dramatic. But a group of 10 developing nations has made it clear this week at the U.N. climate summit in Montreal that it wants a little ... inducement ... to preserve its rainforests. The "Rainforest Coal ...
Topics: climate, Costa Rica, news, Papua New Guinea, rainforests (all these topics)

The Gold Shoulder Latin American activists have string of successes against gold mines		15 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
The Gold Shoulder Latin American activists have string of successes against gold mines Even with mining laws, environmental laws, and international free-trade agreements heavily weighted against them, activists in Latin America have had a string of recent successes stopping open-pit and cyanide heap-leach mines from polluting their groundwater and decimating hillsides. In Peru last November, p ...
Topics: Central America, Costa Rica, mining and drilling, news, Peru (all these topics)

Oiled Again Free trade agreement threatens Costa Rican environmental protections	Mark Engler, Nadia Martinez	26 Mar 2004	Main Dish
By Mark Engler and Nadia Martinez 26 Mar 2004 Insert oil rig here? When most people think of Costa Rica, they don't imagine oil rigs stationed off the pristine beaches. Nor do they envision pit mines cutting into the cloud-forested mountains. But, despite the country's noteworthy conservation efforts, its scenic vistas and extraordinary biodiversity face ongoing threats from extractive industries -- and from interna ...
Topics: Costa Rica, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Hurricane Hugo		06 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Hurricane Hugo If Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has his way, some developing nations will create an OPEC-like cartel to protect plants and animals from exploitation by the industrialized world. Speaking earlier this week at the close of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Chavez said, "If these [developed] countries carry off a medical formul ...
Topics: Brazil, business, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

Double Tall, Hold the Pesticides		14 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Double Tall, Hold the Pesticides Starbucks announced this week that it will pay an extra 10 cents per pound for coffee beans that are grown on environmentally and socially responsible farms. The announcement, which was made at a growers conference in Costa Rica, comes at a time when a world coffee surplus has depressed wholesale ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Conservation International, Costa Rica, food and agriculture, green living, recycling (all these topics)

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