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May 4, 2009

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Revisit Reforest The Tropics in Costa Rica

Just heard from Dr. Herster Barres of Reforest The Tropics in response to the recent Earth Day related post. As some of you may recall, we did a fairly extensive two-part post on his organization. My post on the state of earthly matters painted a fairly harsh picture, but I hope there were some shades of optimism, especially because [...]

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April 23, 2009

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Day After Earth Day

Purposely waiting until the day after Earth Day to post this commentary. It is really what happens to this Earth the other 364 days when we are not paying attention to it that matters. If you are writing for a blog that calls itself Nature Blog, you feel kind of compelled to pay some respects [...]

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April 16, 2009

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Costa Rica: An Environmental Work in Progress

On April 11th, Thomas L. Friedman published an OP-ED piece in the New York Times, describing his experience on a recent vacation to Costa Rica. He is a very well respected journalist and there are many people who take his writing at face value. His account of Costa Rica’s efforts to preserve and protect its [...]

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February 19, 2009

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Fighting Costa Rica Climate Change RTT (2)

On February 8th, we posted Part 1 of a story on Reforest the Tropics. Protocol in the blog world says that stories cannot be too long, so we encourage you to read the first half before you continue. In Part 1, we left Herster Barres in Costa Rica, working for the UN about forty years ago. [...]

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February 8, 2009

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Fighting Costa Rica Climate Change One Tree At A Time

Reforest The Tropics  is a non-profit organization, developing and demonstrating a model to reduce CO2 emissions, the major culprit behind our global warming crisis. Its mission is to develop an advanced model for carbon sequestration and long-term storage by creating new forests in Costa Rica. When trees extract CO2 from our atmosphere through photosynthesis, they [...]

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January 26, 2009

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Carbon Neutral Natureair and the Environment

Natureair has just started Costa Rica’s first alternative fueling station thru its own aviation fueling company, Aerotica. Since June 2008, Aerotica has been offering biodiesel, in addition to aviation gas and jet fuel. Natureair purchased this fifty year old business in 2003, three years after creating Costa Rica’s only carbon neutral airline, recently recognized by the United [...]

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November 18, 2008

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Natureair Joins UN’s Climate Change Initiative

For months, we have been living under a cloud of negative news and dire predictions for the future. The darkening, daily dose of information relating to our climate crisis and the skyrocketing costs of our diminishing oil supply were even pushed aside by a virtual collapse of the entire global economy. In the midst of [...]

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September 2, 2008

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Conde Nast Sites Natureair’s Contribution to the Environment

Natureair was selected as a finalist in Conde Nast Traveller’s 2008 World Savers Awards. According to Editor in Chief, Klara Glowczewska, “This year’s finalists are setting standards in social responsibility in ways that we hope will become models for the entire travel industry.” Alex Khajavi, Nature Air’s founder and CEO adds, “For us it is [...]

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July 16, 2008

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Costa Rica Climate Change Study

Global warming and climate change and their impact on Costa Rica are the subject of new research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Highland forests in Costa Rica could be seriously affected by future changes in climate, reducing the number of species in a region famous for its biodiversity. The Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve is one [...]

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June 30, 2008

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Welcome to Nature Blog

Natureair, Costa Rica’s airline and the world’s first certified carbon neutral airline welcomes you to Nature Blog. It is our effort to keep you informed and involved in Costa Rica as an ecotourist destination, and to provide a forum for the sharing and exchange of information relating subjects like global warming and climate change and its [...]

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