EM is shorthand for a powerful and beneficial metabiotic known as Effective Microorganisms, where each organism creates favorable conditions for the growth of the others and creates an antioxidative microbial culture.

Renate Herberger was interviewed at Casa Colina / Santa Teresa after her day in the water. This was Renate's 38th day of swimming every day for 7-9 hours and covering between 15-20 kms each day. When we talked with 52-year-old Renate, the self-styled "Costa Rica Mermaid", originally from Baden-Baden, Germany, she had already swum a total of more than 600 kms in those 38 days.

The Mantis order consists of about 2300 species in tropical and temperate zones world-wide. The most common are the odd-looking "praying mantis", named because of its prayer-like stance - not "preying mantis" because they are predators! The name "mantis" comes from Greek for prophet or fortune teller, and the closest relatives are termites and cockroaches.

Cuando empezamos a hablar de la pesca con mosca (fly fishing), hacemos referencia a uno de los sistemas mas antiguos utilizados por el hombre para conseguir sus alimentos. Actualmente, se ha convertido en un deporte que bajo esta modalidad de pesca utiliza una caña y un señuelo artificial al que llaman “mosca”.

Good: during the waxing moon and in the water signs (Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces)

Very unfavorable: during the waning moon and in the light signs: (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius)

La aplicación del Poder de Uno, es un manual que intenta concientizar a las personas sobre como poder modificar sus hábitos cotidianos, practicando buenas costumbres que permitan el desarrollo y la conservación del ambiente.

SO CONVERT GARBAGE INTO FUEL GRADE ALCOHOL!!!

Here's an idea to solve the ever-increasing problem of municipal waste and simultaneously develope an alternative fuel. Two birds with one economic stone!

Close encounters with jaguars are an increasingly rare occurrence in Costa Rica. Deforestation caused by timber enterprises and developers is shrinking Costa Rica's remaining pockets of primary forest at an alarming rate, even in ´protected' areas.