CR is the epicenter of sustainable energy

You’re right on every point, Tom. Costa Rica is “. . . without a doubt one of the greenest countries on the planet.”

Now if they’d just clean up tailpipe emissions, we could actually see all that green.

[quote=”crhomebuilder”]Costa Rica is the only country where there are five functioning renewable energy facilities and it’s the epicenter of sustainable energy. With more than 90% of its electricity generated from renewable energy sources and goals to reach 95% by 2014, Costa Rica is without a doubt one of the greenest countries on the planet.[/quote]

Tom

thank for that info. I did NOT know that to that extent.

i am now in the process of putting together a hybrid system solar and wind.

which should be done by the end of the year.

for some reason everytime I break away from a government utility it makes me smile 🙂

last year I put in a well and cut off my ties with the water company. crooks that they are. 🙂

next will be energy

then a certain %% of food

aquaponics

no septic tank? how is that possible? where is all that, uh, um, “stuff” going? one of my tico neighbors had a young couple who built a tin shack on his property on the road going into our development. not only was it an eyesore, but we discovered that their toilet was simply a hole in the ground. someone went to the Muni and reported it, and they came out and gave them 30 days to tear down the shack. my husband told the young man to put lye in the hole and i think they also set it on fire (can’t remember all the ways they tried to mitigate that pollution). so if you have something like that going on, then i would go to the muni and file a complaint. tossing around the words “cholera” and “hepatitis” might get their attention.

[quote=”maravilla”]. . . so if you have something like that going on, then i would go to the muni and file a complaint. tossing around the words “cholera” and “hepatitis” might get their attention.[/quote]

I DID go to the Ministerio do Salud in Atenas. The people were pleasant like most Ticans were. But they are also lazy and incompetent. They said they’d come to the house and investigate but they did not. The toilet waste either (1)goes underneath a second house that is the landlady’s — depends on which STORY one believes or (2) goes into a neighboring stream on a PRIVATE conservation land where there are Brahmin vacas.

The stream is a mess. There is either a lot of water running in it or it is a dark muddy brown. I didn’t go near it. I had been warned it is contaminated when I first moved to the house. At first I thought it had only been contaminated by the vacas. When I realized there was no septic tank to empty — septic tank companies could not find it to empty — I realized it was toilet waste that was doing the contamination.

My landlady is known throughout Atenas. She is a Colombian woman who has been living in Atenas for many years and is notable for her personality. She said she had the tank emptied and would provide me with the company number. She never did that. Why? Because she had no such number and clearly was telling me one more of the many lies she had.

The water bill was for TWO houses not only for my rented house. There was NO lighting on the patio, because the wires were encrusted, corroded, etc. They were covered by ceramic wall decorations.

The realtors often came by with potential renters and potential buyers, and NEVER said anything to those people. Sadly, most of the realtors were Gringos and were dishonest and unethical. I was amazed when I heard what they said about the house.

I had one choice and that was to move.

[quote=”maravilla”]no no not the minsterio de salud — the municipality. not having a septic tank is a building violation. they pay more attention to those things than health issues.[/quote]

Too late. I’ve moved. I have no idea where in the municipality to go. Do you?

the licensing department should do the trick.