Jeanette McDermott

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. ~ Wendell Berry 

Why am I going to Costa Rica and what will I do there? Read all about it in this pdf.

by Rhett Butler, Mongabay.com, December 11, 2007
The United States again wrought havoc at UN Climate Change talks. In the early morning hours of talks, as diplomats faced exhaustion, the United States pulled the equivalent of a diplomatic nuclear option, scuttling frantic global efforts to save tropical forests. As the two weeks of talks draw to […]

What was your dream before you stopped dreaming? ~ Joanna Macy

I leave for Costa Rica on an early Continental Airlines flight January 6, 2008. It will take nine hours to reach destination. I’ll spend my first three months in Costa Rica at a vegetarian yoga center called Samasati Nature Retreat, near Puerta Viejo de Talamanca on the Caribbean side of the country. In Spring I […]