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  • NP #164: Emmanuel Gutierrez covers Nosara Crece, Vive el Sueno, Santa Marta ASADA, Nosara – Nicoya Relation, and much more Nosara Challenges and Opportunities

    NP #164: Emmanuel Gutierrez covers Nosara Crece, Vive el Sueno, Santa Marta ASADA, Nosara – Nicoya Relation, and much more Nosara Challenges and Opportunities

    Big thanks to Michael Strasmich for connecting us with Emmanual Gutierrez who recently recorded with us. Emmanual is highly involved in multiple community initiatives such as Nosara Crece and Vive el Sueno, and also serves on the board of the Santa Marta ASADA. He has a high level education, is originally from San Jose, but came to Nosara and is dedicating his life to the people.

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    In his podcast we cover a lot of ground from explaining the ideas and programs behind Nosara Crece and Vive el Sueno to covering a multitude of community issues, concerns and opportunities.

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    • Introduction to Emmanual Gutierrez;
    • Nosara Crece (low interest loan program for local entrepreneurs, with extremely high success rate);
    • Vive el Sueno (business training for local entrepreneurs);
    • ASADA Santa Marta;
    • Intristic motivation to dedicate life to people of Nosara;
    • Difficulties in finding human resources and connection between quick development in Nosara from agricultural to tourism to high end tourism;
    • Opportunities in Nosara to be a model community for other places in Costa Rica and the world;
    • Challenges of inflated pricing in the region;
    • Competing community organizations and how are they able to survive;
    • Strategic ideas to inform and approach community and seek mutual solutions vs. online bitching and moaning;
    • Communication with Nicoya and Nosara solutions coming from governmental levels or community extractions?;
    • Nosara entrepreneur examples;
    • Emmanuals three favorite Nosara restaurants;
    • Emmanuals biggest Nosara dislikes
  • Nosara Social Science Study Report to the Community: Four Perspectives on a Sustainable Future in Nosara, Costa Rica

    Nosara Social Science Study Report to the Community: Four Perspectives on a Sustainable Future in Nosara, Costa Rica

    Dr. Alvaro Salas Castro is a frequent quest on the Nosara Podcast. You may remember him as the leader of the community round table event at El Local last July 29th. This event was hosted to share & gather information for the Nosara Social Science Study.

    A team of high level social scientists including Dr. Alvaro Salas, Tina Nabatchi, Christian Freitag, and Greg Munno are conducting the study focusing on Nosara’s ability to become a model community for the world, or just another standard beach town.

    There are many different levels to the study which evolves around the sustainable future of Nosara. After the event they have been working hard on processing the data further with the first results now coming out.

    We just received the publication of the research which we’ll include here below as a downloadable PDF as well as the Abstract from the publication:

    The town of Nosara on Costa Rica’s Nicoya peninsula is home to a vibrant community of diverse residents and is adjacent to an important turtle nesting site. However, tensions between lifelong residents, more recent transplants, visitors, and developers have increased as more of the
    world discovers this once-isolated haven. Climate change, income inequality, and alienation from a
    distant government apparatus have further complicated effective land-use planning and fractured
    social cohesion. Using a mixed-method approach of in-depth interviews (n = 67), Q methodology
    (n = 79), and public deliberation (n = 88), we explored residents’ priorities for the future of their
    town. The results indicate four different perspectives on Nosara’s future. Despite the tensions among
    those four perspectives, they show consensus on one overarching community issue: the need for
    a sustainable development plan. The case also shows how Q-methodology can assist scholars and
    practitioners who embrace participatory approaches to policy development and conflict resolution in
    the environmental arena.

    For more background on this also include below is one of the earlier Dr. Salas episodes if you haven’t heard about this research before. More news and updates about the next steps and process will follow soon, so keep an eye out for any new updates!

    Four Perspectives on a Sustainable Future in Nosara, Costa RicaDownload
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  • This Week In Nosara #2: Early December 2022

    This Week In Nosara #2: Early December 2022

    Here’s the news and events from the last week of November & first week of December

  • Nosara Karate Academy at the 2019 National Karate Tournament; Video Highlights of Kaiya & Elisha

    Nosara Karate Academy at the 2019 National Karate Tournament; Video Highlights of Kaiya & Elisha

    There is a pretty solid martial arts scene going on in Nosara. Our kids are fortunate to enjoy high quality instruction in Boxing, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Karate. There are regular classes available for visitors and residents alike. Sometimes seminars or even tournaments are available in our area and throughout the country.

    This past weekend both Kaiya and Elisha had a great time representing Nosara Karate Academy at the 2019 Costa Rica National Karate Tournament in San Jose.

    This scrappy little team from Guanacaste had successful showings to be proud of in both 2018 and 2019.

    In karate tournaments there are two divisions: Kumite and Kata. Kumite is fighting based on a point system. A punch is 1 point and a head kick is 3 points. A Kata is series of fluid positions and exercises performed in a routine but with no combat. Both Elisha and Kaiya prefer Kumite but understand the discipline learned doing a Kata is important to advance belts and knowledge in the karate system.

    The kids want to thank Sensei Isis, her father Sensei Hector, as well as Sensei Edgar from San Jose for training them for the past several years.

    2018 National Tournament

    9 competitors, 15 medals, 2 National Champions

    • Kaiya: 1st Kumite, 2nd Kata
    • Elisha: 1st Kumite, 2nd Kata
    • Helen: 2nd Kumite, 3rd Kata
    • Amira 1 medal
    • Nayra: 2 medals
    • Tiaja: 2nd Kata
    • Jameson: 3rd Kata
    • Lochlan: 2nd Kumite, 3rd Kata

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  • 2019 National Tournament
  • 7 competitors, 7 medals, 1 National Champion
      • Elisha: 1st Kumite, 3rd Kata
      Kaiya: 2nd Kumite, 3rd Kata
      Amira: 2nd Kata
      Nayra: 3rd Kata
      Tiaja: 2nd Kata
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    Sensei Hector with Kaiya celebrating a solid finish

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    Kai and Elisha enjoyed hanging out watching everyone else compete

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    2018 celebration with Sensei Hector

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    Belt ceremony at Nalu

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    Sensei Edgar from San Jose

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    Teasha doing her Kata in 2019

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    Nosara Karate Academy normally practices on Tuesdays 3:45pm (smaller kids) and 4:45pm (ages 8+) at Nalu and occasionally some private practices at La Banana. Contact Isis on Facebook or stop by Nalu on Tuesday afternoons to see the Nosara Karate Academy in action.

  • NP #7: G Love & Nosara

    NP #7: G Love & Nosara

    Here in Nosara we are super fortunate to meet all kinds of amazing people who love our community. Since 1998, G Love has been coming to Nosara and has no plans of stopping anytime soon. In fact, for the previous five years, G Love (Garret Dutton) has been headlining to Nosara Acoustic Roots Festival. Each year we try to have this festival the weekend after Thanksgiving and it seems to be growing. The show is to benefit the Nosara Security Association and is the biggest fundraiser of the year.

    I got a chance to sit down with Garrett and talk about Nosara and hear some stories about his friends Jack Johnson, Kelly Slater, Donovan Frankenreiter, Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson, the Malloy brothers and more. We also had a chance to detail some of his musical influences and motivating factors and life on the road and staying motivated. G shares a story about losing a deal to Beck and much more info you’ll just have to hear in this episode.

    I hope you enjoy this one getting to know G Love and appreciate you checking it out.