“The Greenbox is emerging as Irelands’ first genuine ecotourism destination with a set of standards based on sound environmental practices highlighting all that the region and its people has to offer.”
Daily Archives: December 1, 2007
Wenhai Ecolodge
Wenhai Ecolodge is a mountain retreat which has been renovated and now uses ’sustainable energy’ systems (bio-gas and solar panels) and is operated by 56 families from the local community.
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Food Miles
ABC Online reports that the average basket of food in Australia has travelled 70,000 kms by the time it has reached the consumer! The report continues and suggests that in some instances the energy which is used to produce the food can be more significant in terms of CO2 emissions. Rather than just looking at [...]
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Leading Hotels of the World
Leading Hotels of the World have launched a scheme which makes “the financial commitment to offset guest’s carbon footprint during their stay at any Leading Hotel…The room rates offered in the Leading Green Initiative have not been inflated to [...]
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Voluntary Carbon Standard
The Voluntary Carbon Standard was launched on the 19th November 2007. The Voluntary Carbon Standard will provide a benchmark for the voluntary carbon market.
Andrei Marcu, President of The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and co-chair of the VCS Steering Committee, says: “While the main action must be in regulatory approaches, voluntary actions and offsets have [...]
Bordeaux Quay
Bordeaux Quay, a popular food destination, combines a restaurant, deli, bakery and cookery school under ‘one roof’. Located in the harbour side in Bristol, Bordeaux Quay are minimising their impact on the environment by:
Working with suppliers to minimise and reuse packaging
Recycling where possible
Low energy light bulbs are used
Solar panels help to heat the water used
Use [...]
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Tourism in Ethiopia for Sustainable Future Alternatives
Tourism in Ethiopia for Sustainable Future Alternatives “was registered in Ethiopia in 2003 as a non-profit making, local Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), the status of charities in Ethiopia. TESFA is committed to helping communities in Ethiopia to [...]
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Lord Norman Foster, Steve Skill, Philip Kithil, Frank Zeman, Russ George & Dickson Despommier
An interesting article in The Times in which six visionaries provide their view on how to create a green and more sustainable future. The visionaries include:
Lord Norman Foster
Steve Skill, a biochemist and pioneer of algal cultivation. Steve Skill hopes that algae will be the biofuel of the future
Philip Kithil, CEO of Atmocean, and ocean-pump inventor [...]
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Earthrace
Earthrace is a trimaran which uses bio-diesel to power it engines. The team are hoping to break the world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powerboat.
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