Sports for Nature’s weekly trips to The Westin Resort & Spa Playa Conchal continue, but we now offer an additional option to experience the "Pura Vida" lifestyle of Costa Rica at a lower cost!
All of us at Sports for Nature have received numerous requests from sports enthusiasts asking us to also provide a budget friendly option to play tennis, golf, soccer, do yoga or sightsee in Costa Rica.
In response, we've created a truly authentic Costa Rican experience with your budget in mind. We're now offering weekly trips at our beautiful Pura Vida House where you will have the chance to practice your favorite activity in the mornings and go to the beach or sightsee in the afternoons. Enjoy traditional Costa Rican dishes made to perfection by local cooks during your stay in our spacious country house located just 10 minutes from some of the Pacific Ocean's most beautiful beaches.
Weekly trips run from Tuesday to Sunday (6 days/5 nights) from now until the end of May.
Cost:
Adults - $1,200 (double occupancy)
Kids - $800 (13 years and younger)
Includes:
- Comfortable accommodations at Pura Vida House with private bathrooms
- Breakfast and dinner while at Pura Vida House -- Costa Rican style!
- Tennis lessons, soccer matches, yoga instruction, transportation to sightseeing tours
- All transportation while in Costa Rica (including Liberia International Airport pick-up and drop-off)
- Full-time local guide
Not included:
- Airfare to and from Costa Rica, golf greens and range fees, lunch, special trips outside the Province of Guanacaste (though we can help to arrange), beer/liquor/snacks available for an extra fee while at Pura Vida House, tours (canopy, horseback riding, volcanoes, surfing, kayak rental, etc.)
In case you are interested, please contact:
E-mail - CostaRica@SportsForNature.com.
Call - 571-244-7248.
Since we sent this e-mail out to our network we have received numerous requests for additional information, so I think this is going to be a great season at both Pura Vida House and The Westin Playa Conchal! Our team is looking forward to meeting lots of new people as well as exploring Costa Rica with them!
Kind regards, Jorge Morera
www.sportsfornature.com
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Finding green giants in the least expected places
Last week my family and I were on vacation in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. We were all taking a tour of local cattle ranches on ATV’s. At the end of the day one of the local operators’ kids approached me and asked if I was the one that worked on “something” related to nature and sports. I laughed and responded affirmatively and in return asked little Andrey (a cute 11 year old who was born literally on his dad’s ranch), what he thought about that.
He told me that he loved nature and that one day he wanted to help his neighbors recycle. He also mentioned to me in great detail how his local grocery store (named “Super Compro”) charged 20 colones (colones are Costa Rica’s currency); and 20colones is the equivalent of about 4 cents, every time that someone came to buy groceries and they did not bring their own cloth bag and had to use a plastic bag to carry items. I asked him what he thought of this and immediately he responded, “they should charge people a lot more than 20 colones!”.
Needless to say, I laughed and was surprised of Andrey’s response and how much he knew about green initiatives, and also how sure he was that he wanted to work one day in something related to the environment. I loved it! Our future generations wanting to take care of our planet! At the end of our conversation I bought Andrey and his sister an ice cream and said goodbye with a hug. I have to come to Guanacaste again in February for work, I sure hope to see Andrey again!
On my note next week, I want to share with everyone Sports for Nature’s new option for the budget friendly traveler to experience Costa Rica. We will now be running weekly trips to Guanacaste and having people stay at our offices there, a hacienda called Pura Vida House! More on that next week! Oh, and our weekly golf and tennis trips to The Westin Playa Conchal will continue as well!
Sports for Nature = Healthier people in a healthier world.
Sports for Nature Trips = www.sportsfornature.com/trips
He told me that he loved nature and that one day he wanted to help his neighbors recycle. He also mentioned to me in great detail how his local grocery store (named “Super Compro”) charged 20 colones (colones are Costa Rica’s currency); and 20colones is the equivalent of about 4 cents, every time that someone came to buy groceries and they did not bring their own cloth bag and had to use a plastic bag to carry items. I asked him what he thought of this and immediately he responded, “they should charge people a lot more than 20 colones!”.
Needless to say, I laughed and was surprised of Andrey’s response and how much he knew about green initiatives, and also how sure he was that he wanted to work one day in something related to the environment. I loved it! Our future generations wanting to take care of our planet! At the end of our conversation I bought Andrey and his sister an ice cream and said goodbye with a hug. I have to come to Guanacaste again in February for work, I sure hope to see Andrey again!
On my note next week, I want to share with everyone Sports for Nature’s new option for the budget friendly traveler to experience Costa Rica. We will now be running weekly trips to Guanacaste and having people stay at our offices there, a hacienda called Pura Vida House! More on that next week! Oh, and our weekly golf and tennis trips to The Westin Playa Conchal will continue as well!
Sports for Nature = Healthier people in a healthier world.
Sports for Nature Trips = www.sportsfornature.com/trips
Thursday, November 10, 2011
US Open Recycling of Tennis Ball Cans
Article by Ken Belson, September 2, 2011, The New York Times
Tennis balls are the lifeblood of every match, and as ubiquitous as rackets, shoulder bags and sweatbands. But the cans they come in create a mountain of garbage that the United States Tennis Association is working hard to recycle during the United States Open.
Since 2008, the association has recycled nearly all of the estimated 20,000 tennis ball cans that are opened each tournament. The cans are collected by a recycler who separates the can, top and wrapper, which are plastic, and the aluminum rim.
The aluminum pull tops were considered too sharp to handle and were tossed out. But this year, the U.S.T.A. added separate receptacles for them so they could be properly recycled as well.
“Tennis balls and cans are one of the most essential pieces of the U.S. Open, so we wanted to make it a priority,” said Lauren Kittelstad, a senior manager who works on the U.S.T.A.’s green initiatives.
Recycling tennis ball cans might seem like a drop in the bucket compared with, say, the nearly 300,000 plastic drink bottles that were collected at last year’s Open, or the hundreds of tons of garbage produced over all.
But the tennis ball cans, in addition to being symbolic, are a challenge to recycle because they contain three types of plastics and an aluminum rim that must be pulled from the can.
Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, who helped the U.S.T.A create its green initiative, said the association had “pioneered” the recycling of the tennis ball cans.
Achieving a nearly 100 percent recycle rate has been possible because relatively few people handle the tennis ball cans, according to Bina Indelicato, the U.S.T.A.’s environmental consultant. Before each match, umpires are given bags containing about 15 new cans with three balls to a can. On the court, they open the cans, take out the balls and put the cans back in the bag. After the match, the umpires return the bag to an umpire station, where the cans and tops are sorted into recycling bins. They are then collected by custodians and later hauled away by a recycler. The balls are reused at the National Tennis Center after the United States Open and are given to community programs. Some of the deflated balls are sent to schools and nursing homes, where they end up on the legs of chairs and walkers.
Jason Collins, the Global Business Director for sourcing at Wilson Racquet Sports, said that although it would be ideal to increase the percentage of recycled plastic in the cans, once they are made with more than 30 percent recycled plastic, they lose their pressure after they are shipped from the company’s factory in Thailand.
“You get leakage,” he said. “Think of it as microscopic holes. Virgin plastic is very clean. Recycled plastic has weaknesses. It’s like a slow leak in a tire.”
A slow leak in the can might not affect the balls immediately, but over time, they will lose their bounce.
The antidote, Collins said, is to switch to pressure less balls, which are not popular in the United States, or to switch to metal cans, which are twice the price of plastic cans. It has not helped that the price of rubber and wool, two key ingredients in tennis balls, has been on the rise, he said. “Because of the retail price of the balls, the common perception is that they can’t be that hard” to produce, Collins said. “But the cans are one of the most difficult products to make and recycle. The components can be recycled, but together, it’s difficult.”
Tennis balls are the lifeblood of every match, and as ubiquitous as rackets, shoulder bags and sweatbands. But the cans they come in create a mountain of garbage that the United States Tennis Association is working hard to recycle during the United States Open.
Since 2008, the association has recycled nearly all of the estimated 20,000 tennis ball cans that are opened each tournament. The cans are collected by a recycler who separates the can, top and wrapper, which are plastic, and the aluminum rim.
The aluminum pull tops were considered too sharp to handle and were tossed out. But this year, the U.S.T.A. added separate receptacles for them so they could be properly recycled as well.
“Tennis balls and cans are one of the most essential pieces of the U.S. Open, so we wanted to make it a priority,” said Lauren Kittelstad, a senior manager who works on the U.S.T.A.’s green initiatives.
Recycling tennis ball cans might seem like a drop in the bucket compared with, say, the nearly 300,000 plastic drink bottles that were collected at last year’s Open, or the hundreds of tons of garbage produced over all.
But the tennis ball cans, in addition to being symbolic, are a challenge to recycle because they contain three types of plastics and an aluminum rim that must be pulled from the can.
Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, who helped the U.S.T.A create its green initiative, said the association had “pioneered” the recycling of the tennis ball cans.
Achieving a nearly 100 percent recycle rate has been possible because relatively few people handle the tennis ball cans, according to Bina Indelicato, the U.S.T.A.’s environmental consultant. Before each match, umpires are given bags containing about 15 new cans with three balls to a can. On the court, they open the cans, take out the balls and put the cans back in the bag. After the match, the umpires return the bag to an umpire station, where the cans and tops are sorted into recycling bins. They are then collected by custodians and later hauled away by a recycler. The balls are reused at the National Tennis Center after the United States Open and are given to community programs. Some of the deflated balls are sent to schools and nursing homes, where they end up on the legs of chairs and walkers.
Jason Collins, the Global Business Director for sourcing at Wilson Racquet Sports, said that although it would be ideal to increase the percentage of recycled plastic in the cans, once they are made with more than 30 percent recycled plastic, they lose their pressure after they are shipped from the company’s factory in Thailand.
“You get leakage,” he said. “Think of it as microscopic holes. Virgin plastic is very clean. Recycled plastic has weaknesses. It’s like a slow leak in a tire.”
A slow leak in the can might not affect the balls immediately, but over time, they will lose their bounce.
The antidote, Collins said, is to switch to pressure less balls, which are not popular in the United States, or to switch to metal cans, which are twice the price of plastic cans. It has not helped that the price of rubber and wool, two key ingredients in tennis balls, has been on the rise, he said. “Because of the retail price of the balls, the common perception is that they can’t be that hard” to produce, Collins said. “But the cans are one of the most difficult products to make and recycle. The components can be recycled, but together, it’s difficult.”
Friday, September 9, 2011
Nature is powerful
Here in the DC area it has been raining non-stop for the past four days. The remnants of Lee has been creating havoc in the DC Area, an area that is already overpopulated, congested by cars, and add to that torrential rains and it’s a sure recipe for disaster.
Yesterday our beltway was closed several hours creating some of the worst traffic we have seen in years (and that’s a lot to say considering traffic is bad here on a daily basis!). Due to the same storm, many local roads have been flooding, trees falling and local residents are facing a series of challenges.
In New York City, same situation, lots of rain for days, to the point where one of the major sporting events in the world was stopped for two days in a row - the United States Tennis Open. We all heard in the news how the top players were frustrated because tournament officials sent them to play in unsafe conditions, with courts still slippery. Then yesterday, after the match had already started, Andy Roddick found a pocket of water that was still leaking under the court surface. This stopped the match for a few hours until finally officials sent them to play in an even smaller outside court where Roddick beat the fifth seed of the tournament, David Ferrer in four tough sets.
Nature affects our lives and sports quite a bit. If it rains our behavior is entirely different than if it’s sunny outside. We wear different clothes, probably our mood changes as well. Same with cold and heat. Some people like cold better, some like it hot. Some like the mountains while some others like the beach. We depend on the environment so much, yet most of us don’t do much to take care of it. We still believe that the environment is an unlimited resource; and act as if resources such as water, forests, and biodiversity are limitless. Some people also believe that such resources have limits, but that it’s the responsibility of others to worry about taking care of them.
I sometimes ask my self if we have reached the tipping point or not. If we have already done so much damage to the environment and reversing is not an option anymore. If we are yet to see serious life-changing consequences of our harm to nature. I am always very optimistic and hope that we have not reached the tipping point, that we can still protect what remains of our environment and that we can coexist with nature for many centuries to come. I hope I am right.
I think that we all need to act “as if” we have passed the tipping point, and do everything we can in our daily lives to protect nature. And in our jobs, speak to the higher-ups in our company to implement company-wide policies to reduce, reuse, recycle. Every little bit helps.
Without nature we can’t live, so I say let’s take care of the environment so we can continue to enjoy our lives, our family, our friends, and every activity that we love to do.
Yesterday our beltway was closed several hours creating some of the worst traffic we have seen in years (and that’s a lot to say considering traffic is bad here on a daily basis!). Due to the same storm, many local roads have been flooding, trees falling and local residents are facing a series of challenges.
In New York City, same situation, lots of rain for days, to the point where one of the major sporting events in the world was stopped for two days in a row - the United States Tennis Open. We all heard in the news how the top players were frustrated because tournament officials sent them to play in unsafe conditions, with courts still slippery. Then yesterday, after the match had already started, Andy Roddick found a pocket of water that was still leaking under the court surface. This stopped the match for a few hours until finally officials sent them to play in an even smaller outside court where Roddick beat the fifth seed of the tournament, David Ferrer in four tough sets.
Nature affects our lives and sports quite a bit. If it rains our behavior is entirely different than if it’s sunny outside. We wear different clothes, probably our mood changes as well. Same with cold and heat. Some people like cold better, some like it hot. Some like the mountains while some others like the beach. We depend on the environment so much, yet most of us don’t do much to take care of it. We still believe that the environment is an unlimited resource; and act as if resources such as water, forests, and biodiversity are limitless. Some people also believe that such resources have limits, but that it’s the responsibility of others to worry about taking care of them.
I sometimes ask my self if we have reached the tipping point or not. If we have already done so much damage to the environment and reversing is not an option anymore. If we are yet to see serious life-changing consequences of our harm to nature. I am always very optimistic and hope that we have not reached the tipping point, that we can still protect what remains of our environment and that we can coexist with nature for many centuries to come. I hope I am right.
I think that we all need to act “as if” we have passed the tipping point, and do everything we can in our daily lives to protect nature. And in our jobs, speak to the higher-ups in our company to implement company-wide policies to reduce, reuse, recycle. Every little bit helps.
Without nature we can’t live, so I say let’s take care of the environment so we can continue to enjoy our lives, our family, our friends, and every activity that we love to do.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Be a kid again, get outdoors and have fun!
Remember when you were a kid and would go out to play with your friends for endless hours at a time? Time would fly, it would be sheer happiness without a worry in this world. And when you would get back home you would be so tired and pretty much be ready for a quick snack and go to sleep. And the next day, repeat! Well, why can’t we do that sometimes as an adult? What is stopping us? Some may say that life gets in the way, work, responsibilities, kids, etc. I say that’s all just excuses. Make some time to get outdoors and have some fun! With friends, or with your family, either way you will have a great time and it will serve as a cheap therapy session in case work has you stressed out.
When I was a kid I was blessed to live in an area where I could go play outside with my friends and not have to worry about any safety issues, cars, pollution, etc. It was a blast for many years!
Being in the forest, the desert, the mountains, the rivers, the ocean is more likely to invigorate your green passion and your innate sense of place than being stuck in the city. You might call them holidays, vacations, weekends, but in reality it is simply playtime. Just like when we were kids. The sheen on the water, the warmth of the rock, the smell of moss after rain, the taste of dirt. It connects us not only to our childhood, but also to our origins. And the longer we dwell there, the greater our sense of stewardship.
Make sure to bring people with you! You know you're going to have a fantastic time under the open sky, so why not share it. Once in a while, soften the hardcore approach a little--take your friends, family, work colleagues, or fellow students out there with you. Watch them swat a few mosquitoes, shake the sand from their wetsuit, or get a sunburned nose, all the while knowing that you are introducing someone anew to the blue sky joys that give you so much pleasure. Chances are, someone did the same for you once.
Something we can also do is support organizations that support green spaces. There are many green charities out there that support wild places, parks, lakes, beaches, and biodiversity in general. If your budget permits, donate to a worthy charity once in a while, or volunteer with them. Charities will always have volunteer opportunities available to fit everyone’s interests!
Also remember, when you play outdoors, minimize your negative impact. There is a tendency when playing outside the boundaries imposed by concrete, glass, and societal norms to think that we can just go for it. And while that's true when shooting through a pressure wave on a whitewater river or pushing yourself to the end of a 20-mile wilderness run, it doesn't mean we can just drop our other responsibilities. Don’t leave any trash behind, pick it up and take it with you back home.
And pack lightly if you can, less is sometimes more. More gear will mean more weight, more worries. If you pack lightly, you will probably move faster and be less tired, as well as minimize your impact on nature.
So remember, make some time in your life to go outdoors and have fun. Bring the inner kid in you out again and if you can, just for a few hours at a time several times per month, have fun in contact with nature without a care in the world! Work to LIVE, don’t live to work!
(Excerpts from Warren McLaren’s article How to Go Green: Outdoor Sports)
Sports for Nature = Greening sports
When I was a kid I was blessed to live in an area where I could go play outside with my friends and not have to worry about any safety issues, cars, pollution, etc. It was a blast for many years!
Being in the forest, the desert, the mountains, the rivers, the ocean is more likely to invigorate your green passion and your innate sense of place than being stuck in the city. You might call them holidays, vacations, weekends, but in reality it is simply playtime. Just like when we were kids. The sheen on the water, the warmth of the rock, the smell of moss after rain, the taste of dirt. It connects us not only to our childhood, but also to our origins. And the longer we dwell there, the greater our sense of stewardship.
Make sure to bring people with you! You know you're going to have a fantastic time under the open sky, so why not share it. Once in a while, soften the hardcore approach a little--take your friends, family, work colleagues, or fellow students out there with you. Watch them swat a few mosquitoes, shake the sand from their wetsuit, or get a sunburned nose, all the while knowing that you are introducing someone anew to the blue sky joys that give you so much pleasure. Chances are, someone did the same for you once.
Something we can also do is support organizations that support green spaces. There are many green charities out there that support wild places, parks, lakes, beaches, and biodiversity in general. If your budget permits, donate to a worthy charity once in a while, or volunteer with them. Charities will always have volunteer opportunities available to fit everyone’s interests!
Also remember, when you play outdoors, minimize your negative impact. There is a tendency when playing outside the boundaries imposed by concrete, glass, and societal norms to think that we can just go for it. And while that's true when shooting through a pressure wave on a whitewater river or pushing yourself to the end of a 20-mile wilderness run, it doesn't mean we can just drop our other responsibilities. Don’t leave any trash behind, pick it up and take it with you back home.
And pack lightly if you can, less is sometimes more. More gear will mean more weight, more worries. If you pack lightly, you will probably move faster and be less tired, as well as minimize your impact on nature.
So remember, make some time in your life to go outdoors and have fun. Bring the inner kid in you out again and if you can, just for a few hours at a time several times per month, have fun in contact with nature without a care in the world! Work to LIVE, don’t live to work!
(Excerpts from Warren McLaren’s article How to Go Green: Outdoor Sports)
Sports for Nature = Greening sports
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Sports News: Juan Carlos Ferrero is back and tennis’ schedule is kind of crazy
(Excerpts from Jon Wertheim’s article: Juan Carlos Ferrero finds the magic in Stuttgart win)
Juan Carlos Ferrero, a former No. 1 player, and a Grand Slam champion has fallen deep in the rotation. His ranking has gone down quite a bit. At age 31, he battles constant injuries. Even when Rafael Nadal pulled out, his name wasn't even mentioned for the Spanish Davis Cup roster. But last week, he looked like the world-beater of years past. Playing in just his third event of 2011, he won the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, Germany, the 16th title of his career. It's not exactly winning the French Open. But one suspects that, in its way, it was comparably sweet. We wish Juan Carlos the best for the North American hard court season!
Now let’s move to tennis’ crazy schedule. The tennis calendar is a logic puzzle that no one has come close to solving. Why -- when all other sports ease into a season and allow time for plots to unfold -- tennis holds its first major two weeks into the year! Why does the last major conclude in early September, rendering the entire autumn and early winter anticlimactic, yet only two weeks separate the French Open and Wimbledon? Why is a Davis Cup competition held five days after the Wimbledon final? No wonder fans complain that many of the world’s top tennis players don’t play Davis Cup. Perhaps they are human and want to rest a bit after a grueling Grand Slam?
We got another sample of tennis' nuttiness this past week. The circuit threaded its way through two clay court events in Europe -- right after the grass court stretch ended and the hard court season is about to commence. It was a dead week in the United States, with the exception of World Team Tennis. Thank God the Legg Mason Tennis Classic is coming to our city – Washington, DC in three weeks!
Please remember that there are spots left for our tennis trips to Costa Rica starting in December. Please contact us anytime at tennis@sportsfornature.com or visit www.sportsfornature.com/trips for full details regarding the Costa Rica trips.
Sports for Nature = Healthier people in a healthier world.
Juan Carlos Ferrero, a former No. 1 player, and a Grand Slam champion has fallen deep in the rotation. His ranking has gone down quite a bit. At age 31, he battles constant injuries. Even when Rafael Nadal pulled out, his name wasn't even mentioned for the Spanish Davis Cup roster. But last week, he looked like the world-beater of years past. Playing in just his third event of 2011, he won the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, Germany, the 16th title of his career. It's not exactly winning the French Open. But one suspects that, in its way, it was comparably sweet. We wish Juan Carlos the best for the North American hard court season!
Now let’s move to tennis’ crazy schedule. The tennis calendar is a logic puzzle that no one has come close to solving. Why -- when all other sports ease into a season and allow time for plots to unfold -- tennis holds its first major two weeks into the year! Why does the last major conclude in early September, rendering the entire autumn and early winter anticlimactic, yet only two weeks separate the French Open and Wimbledon? Why is a Davis Cup competition held five days after the Wimbledon final? No wonder fans complain that many of the world’s top tennis players don’t play Davis Cup. Perhaps they are human and want to rest a bit after a grueling Grand Slam?
We got another sample of tennis' nuttiness this past week. The circuit threaded its way through two clay court events in Europe -- right after the grass court stretch ended and the hard court season is about to commence. It was a dead week in the United States, with the exception of World Team Tennis. Thank God the Legg Mason Tennis Classic is coming to our city – Washington, DC in three weeks!
Please remember that there are spots left for our tennis trips to Costa Rica starting in December. Please contact us anytime at tennis@sportsfornature.com or visit www.sportsfornature.com/trips for full details regarding the Costa Rica trips.
Sports for Nature = Healthier people in a healthier world.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Sports and the planet go hand in hand
I want to report that Tennis for Nature at Regency was a hit. We got spectacular weather and all the matches were really good. Players were happy and we received very positive comments regarding the event.
Everyone felt that combining tennis and the environment is a great idea, and fun! And that we should produce Tennis for Nature events more often and in different locations. The staff at Sports for Nature appreciates the feedback and will take the comments very seriously, and try to work towards hopefully producing more tennis events outside the Washington, DC area. And by the way, congratulations to all the winners in the different divisions, everyone gave their best effort and had a good attitude on the court.
Our next Sports for Nature event is going to be a Golf for Nature event in the fall in the DC area. Right now we are working hard to solidify sponsorships and then we’ll move towards working on logistics for the outing. If anyone knows of any companies interested in supporting this event, please let us know.
As always, we’re also promoting the Sports for Earth Tennis Trips to Costa Rica that start in December. Resort management has recently changed and what used to be Paradisus Playa Conchal is now The Westin Resort and Spa Playa Conchal. I heard that the resort is implementing many changes and upgrading facilities to make the experience of staying there unforgettable. And the best news if that all changes will be done by November, one month before our tennis trips start! Needless to say, we are looking forward to many fun tennis trips to Costa Rica this upcoming season!
I want to remind each one of you to try to be green in your personal lives. Recycling whenever possible, and using less resources in general. Every little bit counts for our planet. For example, an easy way to save money and energy is turning lights off in rooms that we are not occupying inside the house. Another reminder is when you go to a fast-food restaurant, only grab the napkins that you are actually going to use. If you grab 2 or 3 less napkins, and multiply that by 1,000 people, you are saving lots of trees!
Have a great weekend! Go green!
Jorge Morera
Sports for Earth = Helping the planet through sports
www.sportsfornature.com
Tennis in Costa Rica = www.sportsfornature.com/trips
Everyone felt that combining tennis and the environment is a great idea, and fun! And that we should produce Tennis for Nature events more often and in different locations. The staff at Sports for Nature appreciates the feedback and will take the comments very seriously, and try to work towards hopefully producing more tennis events outside the Washington, DC area. And by the way, congratulations to all the winners in the different divisions, everyone gave their best effort and had a good attitude on the court.
Our next Sports for Nature event is going to be a Golf for Nature event in the fall in the DC area. Right now we are working hard to solidify sponsorships and then we’ll move towards working on logistics for the outing. If anyone knows of any companies interested in supporting this event, please let us know.
As always, we’re also promoting the Sports for Earth Tennis Trips to Costa Rica that start in December. Resort management has recently changed and what used to be Paradisus Playa Conchal is now The Westin Resort and Spa Playa Conchal. I heard that the resort is implementing many changes and upgrading facilities to make the experience of staying there unforgettable. And the best news if that all changes will be done by November, one month before our tennis trips start! Needless to say, we are looking forward to many fun tennis trips to Costa Rica this upcoming season!
I want to remind each one of you to try to be green in your personal lives. Recycling whenever possible, and using less resources in general. Every little bit counts for our planet. For example, an easy way to save money and energy is turning lights off in rooms that we are not occupying inside the house. Another reminder is when you go to a fast-food restaurant, only grab the napkins that you are actually going to use. If you grab 2 or 3 less napkins, and multiply that by 1,000 people, you are saving lots of trees!
Have a great weekend! Go green!
Jorge Morera
Sports for Earth = Helping the planet through sports
www.sportsfornature.com
Tennis in Costa Rica = www.sportsfornature.com/trips
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