Learning to Save the Rain Forest, One Small Business at a Time

An unusual Costa Rican university teaches students to be earth-friendly entrepreneurs

From her dorm room at Earth University, Paloma Macchi, a 21-year-old agricultural student from Brazil, looks out at thousands of acres of pristine rain forest. Scarlet macaws flit among the towering ceiba trees. And yellow heliconias, with their oversized petals, bob under the weight of the early morning mist.

Few university campuses in the world compare in terms of sheer natural beauty. But for

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