This Sunday, while thousands of people were marching in NYC and other major cities around the world, Costa Rica had its national clean-up day in communities, rivers, lakes, beaches, and oceans. Designed to collect recyclable material as well as trash, the program was organized in part by the Ocean Conservancy and Terra Nostra, and sponsored by relevant government agencies. Xandari invited community members to join in to work around the roads in Tacacorà and the neighboring town of Tambor, and including four hotel employees and myself we had forty-five people come out from 7am-11am to pick up and sort trash. Many of these individuals were young children and teenagers, which was an encouraging sight!
Part of the street before trash pick-up
On Saturday, a team of thirteen hotel employees had also gone out along the Tacacorà river, and they collected a total of twenty-two pounds of plastic…
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Ann Novek( Luure)--With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors 
