Do you believe in a Regenerative Future?
Welcome aboard!
Living off-grid in the countryside isn’t the only way to live a regenerative lifestyle.
(Although we can help you with that too!)
Regeneration Nation CR helps you shorten the learning curve, as you move forward with your sustainability dreams and path of positive impact.
Save yourself some time, money, and heartbreak by learning best practices from seasoned change-makers, instead of reinventing the wheel.
Regenerative Agriculture, Business,
& Communities in Costa Rica
Regeneration Nation CR’s Mission
We share stories, strategies, and insights from ecologically & socially beneficial projects, in Costa Rica. These stories provide businesses and landowners everywhere access to unique ideas for how they, too, might design their own business models for regenerative success and impact.
In the end, we hope to see more people succeed in their dreams to live & work in ways that are beneficial to the environment, living beings, and future generations.
It’s great to have you along!
If you dream of directing your entrepreneurial efforts for ecological and social benefit, we have some empowering stories lined up for you.
No matter if you’re a new business owner, actively preparing to launch your entrepreneurial journey, or a veteran who wants to expand your own perspectives for who’s doing what and how you might improve your model, you’ve come to the right place.
Join us as we explore an array of organizations seeding regional resilience, from permaculture farms, retreat centers, alternative economic models, international communities, green energy providers, and certification agencies, to NGOs and government initiatives committed to reshaping the options their citizens have to live a low-impact regenerative lifestyle.
The one common golden thread amidst the stories you’ll find here is a commitment to developing lifestyles, businesses, and cultures that operate in harmony with nature and the common good.
For me, it all started with the Back-To-The-Landers!
If you review any of our first dozen or so episodes, you’ll see that I began the Sharing Insights Podcast with a strict focus on land-based projects. There are thousands of people around the globe who are passionate about living a sustainable lifestyle and who either have or want to start an eco-friendly land-based project.
While recording the first season, I began to realize that for these landowners to significantly improve the impact they’re able to make, we’d do well to open the conversations and perspectives up to understand what change-makers are doing to cultivate success at various levels of industry and ingenuity. I saw usefulness in building bridges between the grass-roots movements and those focused on larger-scale impact.
We’re all in this together.
Regeneration Nation Costa Rica is the evolution of that vision.
Recognizing that these projects were only a part of what’s needed to help Costa Rica achieve its goals toward carbon neutrality and cultural evolution, I’ve decided to widen the scope and include other regenerative initiatives that aren’t exclusively land-based.
By sharing insights among leaders of an array of regenerative organizations, it’s my goal to expand perspectives of how sustainability can be practiced, not only through responsible land management but also through social dynamics, cultural exchange, commerce, and finance as well.
I like to believe that beneficial relationships are likely to grow here.
Join us as we:
- Discover exciting programs designed to create regional resilience
- Explore advice for how to most effectively lower your carbon footprint
- Highlight and support this new generation of impact-driven pioneers
- And dig deeper into what it really takes to lead the way for the millions of people who are searching for a place where they too can learn, change, and grow.
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#021 Rodo Saenz: Natural Building Tools, Tricks, and Sage Advice (Bamboo School Costa Rica)
Watch the Interview... ...or use the audio player below... Master Bamboo Builder, Rodolfo Saenz, shows us his hand-made tools of the trade Rodo is a master natural building teacher from Costa Rica who’s been studying & teaching bamboo construction around the world for over 40 years. I’ve released Rodo’s full-length interview on YouTube, complete with a visual tour of his handmade tools and a demonstration of a few bamboo building techniques he shows us. Still, I decided to release this shortened version of it for my podcast listeners, cutting out the parts that were primarily visual. We start this interview in front of one of his most recent compost toilet...
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I really appreciate what Jason is doing to make a difference on our planet, right now. Thank you for the wonderful time that we shared in making the podcast.
It is really encouraging and inspiring to see like-minded people coming together and Regeneration Nation Costa Rica being a key driver in connecting these people. It was a great pleasure to meet Jason and I am looking forward to hearing more.
Jason Thomas is an incredible guy! Right now, he is collecting information on how to make the world a better place, and whether you have information to give or want to receive this information, I highly recommend Jason and Regeneration Nation Costa Rica.
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#021 Rodo Saenz: Natural Building Tools, Tricks, and Sage Advice (Bamboo School Costa Rica)
Watch the Interview... ...or use the audio player below... Master Bamboo Builder, Rodolfo Saenz, shows us his hand-made tools of the trade Rodo is a master natural building teacher from Costa Rica who’s been studying & teaching bamboo construction around the world for over 40 years. I’ve released Rodo’s full-length interview on YouTube, complete with a visual tour of his handmade tools and a demonstration of a few bamboo building techniques he shows us. Still, I decided to release this shortened version of it for my podcast listeners, cutting out the parts that were primarily visual. We start this interview in front of one of his most recent compost toilet & shower installments he’d made. We talk a bit about the bamboo and cob techniques that he used, as well as the...
#020 Jean Pullen & Alan Cacao: Living Seed Banks & the Breadfruit Revival (Regenerate Your Reality)
Watch the Interview......or use the audio player below...Would you like to see their bio-diverse syntropic food forests? Click here to watch the farm tour video we recorded!Regenerate Your Reality Farm and Education Center In today’s episode, we get the privilege of visiting with not one but two leaders in the regenerative space, Jean Pullen & Alan Cacao. Through their project Regenerate Your Reality, Jean & Alan have been tirelessly promoting permaculture education, seed propagation, food sovereignty, & community-building projects throughout the country. Regenerate Your Reality is a permaculture, agroforestry, and education project working to bring sovereignty and happiness to our communities. It’s their mission to restore the relationship between humans and the...
#019 Jonathon Conant: Crafting Guests’ Experiences, Cultivating Transformational Opportunities (Airborne Arts)
Watch the Interview......or use the audio player below...Would you like to see their bio-diverse syntropic food forests? Click here to watch the farm tour video we recorded!Crafting Guests' Experiences,Cultivating Transformational Opportunities In today’s episode, I meet with Jonathon Conant. Jonathon is a seasoned performer, and coach of the aerial arts. He teaches trapeze and aerial silk skills in one of the most enriching environments a student could hope to learn them in. We talk at length about Jonathan's practice of guiding students to explore flow state as a tool for unlocking unrealized potentials and enriched self-awareness. We also talk about a number of the small touches that Jonathon places along his guests’ experience, from his first contacts with them by email down...
#018 Norman Brooks: Experiments in Community Development and Lessons Learned Along the Way (Punta Mona, Alegria, Ecovilla)
Experiments in Community Development and Lessons Learned Along the Way The episode you’re about to hear is with Norman Brooks, Norman is a veteran pioneer in community development here in Costa Rica. Norman found his way to the jungle in a different manner than most of our guests. He followed and supported his children's passions. He’s commonly known by many around these parts as the father of Stephen Brooks, a well-known permaculturist and community leader in the country. ...
#017 Ed Zaydelman: Producing Community & Events With Glamping & Other Temporary Infrastructure (Live the Possibility)
Producing Community & Events With Glamping & Other Temporary Infrastructure The episode you’re about to hear is with Edward Zaydelman, founder of Live the Possibilities, providing guidance for those looking to take the leap into regenerative communities, sustainable neighborhoods, and revolutionary towns that are shaping the way we now live in the world. While Edward’s story of developing his first land project, Vida, is one...
#016 A Shift In Focus for Changing Times
Welcome to Regeneration Nation Costa Rica Hello, and welcome to the first official episode of Regeneration Nation Costa Rica: A Podcast for Change. We’re exploring the A, B, and C’s of co-creating a regenerative culture. The A's, B's, & C’s of Agriculture, Business, and Community are three of the pillars that we build our societies around. In these fields, some of the most potent innovators are working to create new living paradigms - in harmony with the planet, its inhabitants, and the well-being of future generations. Costa Rica is recognized as a hot spot for regenerative innovations and attracts millions of visitors each year. While many are simply traveling to soak up a season of pura vida living, a growing number are looking to contribute to and be part of an idealized...
#015 Cultivating an Impactful Belief System (Season 1 Recap, Part 6)
Cultivating an Impactful Belief System Hey, there impactful believers, What you’re about to read are the transcripts from the last of a 6-part recap series that I did for the Sharing Insights Podcast. When I rebranded the podcast to Regeneration Nation Costa Rica, I pulled most of the episodes from the RSS feed, as the audiobook format of these episodes ended up being different from what I had in mind for the podcast. I’ve left this final installment of that series up for a couple of reasons. For...
#014 Vagabond Permaculture Podcaster (Part 2 – “For Animals For Earth” w/Jason Bliss)
We have provided a downloadable audio version of the recap series of season 1 episodes, you can find them at the end of this post. This episode is part 2 of my interview with Brandy Montague from her podcast, For Animals For Earth. In this half of the interview, I shared a bit of advice for travelers looking to visit impact centers as guests, volunteers, digital nomads, or students. In the end, we’re all really students! Brandy asked me to share a description of what it might be...
#013 Vagabond Permaculture Podcaster (Part 1 – “For Animals For Earth” w/Jason Bliss)
We have provided a downloadable audio version of the recap series of season 1 episodes, you can find them at the end of this post.Listen in on this conversation that was recorded by Brandy Heyde Montague interviewing me for her podcast “For Animals For Earth”. She was intrigued by the term Ecological Impact Center and asked if I’d be a guest on her show - For Animals for Earth. I met Brandy thanks to her offer to read through and give feedback on what’s become my first...
#012 Lynx Guimond: Building a Zero-Emissions Ocean Vessel on a Permaculture Homestead (SailCargo Inc)
We have provided a downloadable audio version of the recap series of season 1 episodes, you can find them at the end of this post.Lynx Guimond of Sailcargo Inc. is an adventurous carpenter and shipwright with an inspiring mission. He's created a homestead in Costa Rica, uniting a team of over 20 shipbuilders from around the globe to embark on the quest to create a zero-emissions cargo eco-ship called Ceiba, to cross the Atlantic ocean between Central America and Europe. ...