If you’re looking to meet new friends, learn Spanish, play bridge, find a new restaurant, or to volunteer to help Mexican kids, the International Friendship Club (IFC) welcomes […]
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Author: John Warren
John Warren is in charge of Publicity for the International Friendship Club (IFC). His articles describe the programs and charities that IFC supports, the sources of income of IFC and the social experiences, lectures and classes that members can enjoy.
He splits his time between Puerto Vallarta and Lethbridge, Alberta. In the winter months he writes for the IFC, this summer he’s focusing his writing on the environment.
A Good Time for a Good Cause
There are over 600 reviews of the IFC Home Tours of Puerto Vallarta on Trip Advisor. 95% of them rate the tours as “Excellent.” One of the latest […]
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Past, Present, and Future
Throughout history, humans have been successful in coming together, demanding change, and causing it. The world is at that point now. In the past, many mass movements were religious. The […]
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We Can Do This!
What keeps our ice cream hard, our bedrooms cool, and our cell phones charged? Answer: electricity. What generates our electricity in Mexico, and why do we care? Answer: Fossil fuel […]
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Jaguars of Jalisco
Believe it or not, the “killer of killers,” the jaguar, lives within less than an hour’s drive from the resorts of Puerto Vallarta. Drive south of town for half an […]
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Help Your Neighbor
In mid- September, Hurricane Lorena dumped tons of water on Cabo Corrientes, which is just south of Puerto Vallarta, and saturated everything. Eleven days later, Tropical Storm Narda devastated the […]
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“A” Is For Anthropocene
Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? It was probably caused by a super-sized asteroid hitting Planet Earth right in the middle of the Yucatan Peninsula. The resulting debris of fine […]
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Lend A Hand
What emerged as a species 110 million years ago, is a green, heart-shaped reptile that lays eggs on land, breathes air, travels thousands of miles in the ocean, starts life […]
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Take their Money
Money is the oxygen of every business on the planet. Reduce the supply of money to a business, and it simply cannot breathe. It dies. Millions of schoolchildren, university students, […]
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The Elephant in the Room
Two-hundred years ago, Russian novelist Ivan Krylov wrote a story about a man who goes to a museum and notices all sorts of tiny details but fails to notice an […]
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