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		<title>The Green Building Seminar!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year, the Green Building Seminar and Round-table took place at the University for Peace in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica.  A good portion of the Conference tackled Climate Change, which included a variety of lectures, panel discussions and workshops.  Among the assistants were students, policymakers, academics and members of business and NGO community. Dr. Karl-Werner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festival Nacional de Yoga &#8211; Costa Rica 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend in San Jose, the third annual National Yoga Festival for Costa Rica took place, with dozens of yoga centers around the country participating by offering free yoga classes at their studios on Friday and Saturdays. The festival is put on every year by ASOYOGACR, headed by local yoga instructor Edgar Ortiz Salgado, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eco Bloque Construction for Costa Rica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wayne E Bird took the time to answer a few questions for Pura-Verde.com about his amazing eco-bloques, which are a long-awaited addition to the green building materials in Costa Rica. With this technology, builders nationwide will be able to build concrete-block style construction for cheaper as well as much more ecologically. The eco-bloques are made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pura-verde.com/green-building/eco-bloque-construction-for-costa-rica/</link>
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		<title>Sandy Astudillo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sandy Astudillo Associate Editor Sandy was born in Venezuela, and is an owner of Paraiso Publicidad in Costa Rica.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pura-verde.com/about-us/sandy-astudillo/</link>
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		<title>Maria Castro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mario Castro Editor-in-Chief Maria Castro was born in Costa Rica and now lives in Savannah Georgia, where she is a green consultant. Her personal website is GreenLifeSpace.com. Her mission is simple &#8211; make every home as healthy and as eco-friendly as possible. She strives to make your home healthy by eliminating toxic household chemicals, removing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pura-verde.com/about-us/maria-castro/</link>
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		<title>Christina Sherman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christina Sherman Associate Editor Christina Sherman is president of Tropisphere Real Estate, and lives in Montezuma, Costa Rica.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pura-verde.com/about-us/christina-sherman/</link>
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		<title>Hodges Apellido</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hodges Apellido Associate Editor/Writer Hodges lives in Montezuma, Costa Rica and runs and owns a graphic design company, Paraiso Publicidad. He&#8217;s also  a professor of music for the Sinem program of Costa Rica and a professional musician back in the United States.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pura-verde.com/about-us/hodges-apellido/</link>
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		<title>Geoff McCabe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Geoffrey McCabe Founder Originally from Seattle, Geoff writes for a variety of online websites, blogs, and his own websites. He is currently CEO of Anamaya Yoga Retreat and Tropisphere Real Estate. He has a lovely four-year old daughter named Serafina, and lives in Montezuma, Costa Rica. He is passionate about green building and architecture, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pura-verde.com/about-us/geoff-mccabe/</link>
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		<title>Additional Resources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Additional Costa Rica &#038; International Resources]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pura-verde.com/uncategorized/additional-resources/</link>
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		<title>Costa Rica is Pura Verde</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pura Verde means &#8220;Pure Green.&#8221; Welcome to Costa Rica, a world leader in progressive thinking about the environment and social issues. One of few countries without an army, our last president was also a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and put the country on track to become the world first &#8220;carbon neutral&#8221; country. Costa Rica is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pura-verde.com/pura-verde-header-story/pura-verde-2/</link>
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