{"id":11,"date":"2012-03-18T04:05:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T04:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solar-vistas.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2024-03-30T17:00:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T17:00:06","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/solar-vistas.com\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u00b7\u00a0All About Us \u00b7<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: trebuchet MS,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #85b81e; font-size: medium;\">Geoff McCabe, CEO<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Geoff has an extensive entrepreneurial background, having started or managed several multi-million dollar businesses. A graduate of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, Geoff also has a master&#8217;s degree in Physics and is a professional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyrosutra.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">fire dancer<\/span><\/a>. The Southern Nicoya&#8217;s primary &#8220;green-pusher&#8221;, Geoff has been writing about tropical green building and designing eco-houses for two eco-village projects (Solar Vistas and Pura Vida Sunsets). Geoff has extensive product design experience as well, and put that to good use designing the Solar Vistas houses using Google&#8217;s &#8220;Sketch-Up&#8221; 3D-modelling software. Geoff now lives in Montezuma. Geoff is active in his community, frequently helping to give presentations on Costa Rica&#8217;s wildlife at local schools, and was a founder of <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Rainsong Wildlife Sanctuary<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #85b81e; font-size: medium;\">Dan Balogh, President<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Danny, long one of Malpais&#8217; legendary surf instructors, approaches real estate the same way he does surfing &#8211; without fear, but with deep respect for nature. Also, president of Costa Rica Investment Group. Danny is also the creator of the first health food restaurant in the Malpais\/Santa Teresa area &#8211; Jungle Juice.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #85b81e; font-size: medium;\">Jimmy Lee, Vice-President<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jimmy worked as a Greenpeace team leader for six years in Washington,DC. He left Greenpeace to study Chiropractic in Georgia. Weeks after receiving his Doctorate he moved to Costa Rica. Established for ten years as a chiropractor in the town of San Ramon, Costa rica, Jimmy is also a yoga instructor. Also a serial entrepreur, Jimmy has found that green building and real estate are a perfect combination for his skills and background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b7\u00a0All About Us \u00b7 Geoff McCabe, CEO Geoff has an extensive entrepreneurial background, having started or managed several multi-million dollar businesses. A graduate of The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, Geoff also has a master&#8217;s degree in Physics and is a professional fire dancer. The Southern Nicoya&#8217;s primary &#8220;green-pusher&#8221;, Geoff has been writing about tropical green building and designing eco-houses for two eco-village projects (Solar Vistas and Pura Vida Sunsets). Geoff has extensive product design experience as well, and put that to good use designing the Solar Vistas houses using Google&#8217;s &#8220;Sketch-Up&#8221; 3D-modelling software. Geoff now lives in Montezuma.<a href=\"https:\/\/solar-vistas.com\/?page_id=11\">Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>About the Solar Vistas Eco Village Project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Details about this Costa Rica eco village project, Solar Vistas near to Santa Teresa and Montezuma. 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