Cutting through that jungle of carbon neutrality

By: Garland M. Baker B.

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What does it mean to be carbon negative or carbon positive?  What does it mean to be carbon responsible?  The country aims for carbon neutrality by the year 2021.  Expats living in Costa Rica can be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.

Carbon may also be good business for Costa Rica.  The country’s carbon real estate business is still in its development stages, but it's heating up fast.  There are also ways to use the Costa Rican civil code to build carbon responsible communities.

Carbon buzzwords are important in this day and age.  Nature Air, an airline based in Costa Rica, is advertising heavily, stating the company is the world's first and only carbon-neutral airline.

Many people confuse the terms carbon negative with carbon positive, much as they do with the commonplace expression, a glass half empty or half full.

Marriage and family law blindsides unwary expats

By: Garland M. Baker B.

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Shooting oneself in the foot is a common practice in Costa Rica.  Eye candy overwhelms some expats — men and women alike — into making bad decisions that affect their lives forever.

Many men and some women come to Costa Rica in search for love.  They come here because they could not find love at home.

Others come to the country just for the sexual adventure.  Costa Rica is considered one of the top sex tourism destinations of the world.  Amazingly, the current president admitted this fact in a news conference recently. Many past presidents have ignored the reality.

Problems arise for an expat when he or she meets the wrong mate.   Usually, this happens because the expat is seeking love in all the wrong places.    Local men and women are everywhere, and they come in all varieties — straight, gay, and bisexual — looking to latch onto a foreigner.

Some of them really want to make a good wife, husband, or mate.  Many of them just see dollar signs and a way to make extra money for bad habits like drugs or for their umpteen kids at home.

Professional lovers — prostitution is legal in Costa Rica, pimping is not — are great actors.