Costa Rica newspaper: A.M. Costa Rica: Your English language daily news source Wall Street legend Kaufman eyes investment market hereSpecial to A.M. Costa Rica The latest entrant to the Costa Rican real estate market is Wall Street’s Henry Kaufman, famous since 1957 when he took over the largest bond specialist unit of the New York […]

By Will Raap Over thirty years ago as part of my graduate work I traveled to England to research the UK “garden city” movement where new cities were developed after WWII creating village centers surrounded by protected green belts. Gardening areas and small farms were planned into these new cities. British planners knew that gardens […]

S/R 38: Cuba’s Second Revolution (Will Raap) by Will Raap For several years I have been hearing about another revolution in Cuba. This time it involved farming and the food system. For much of the 1990s, small organic farms were providing increasing amounts of Cuba’s food. They were responding to the economic emergency of 1989–90 […]

Here is a great article written by my friend Tom Peifer. Tom is an agroecologist and he runs a non-profit called El Centro Verde and he has developed methods and educational programs around managing farms and forests while making the best use of soil, energy, water and other resources. Culture Change – Home Getting out […]