Daily we receive the message from the media that green is good. We, as consumers, maintain that green buildings, green cars, green plastic and now even green rubber should be the focus. With products such as latex rubber made from a desert plant called guayule becoming more common, this is proving easier and easier to do.

Introduction
In the 1990’s when I was contemplating learning Spanish, I was told repeatedly by well-meaning friends that if I really wanted to learn Spanish I would have to live in a country in which Spanish was the dominate spoken tongue. If you Google “Spanish Immersion,” you will get 1,790,000 hits. After exhausting myself by reading [...]

Soon, teachers and educators across Latin America and Spain will be attending the Fifth Ibero-American Conference of Teachers, Educators and Researchers (Quinto Encuentro IberoAmericano de Colectivas y Redes de Maestros que Hacen Investigacion e Innovacion Desde Su Escuela y Comunidad). One of their objectives is to make teachers and educators authors of and protagonists for [...]

Caribbean Medical Schools
We have usually heard jokes about medical degrees earned by doctors in third-world countries and how they are prime candidates for a lawsuit. Or maybe we hear about such higher institutions of medicine as Caribbean medical schools as places to work on one?s tan. But there are legitimate Caribbean medical schools, [...]