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Friday 25th & Saturday 26th July 2008
Stratford Upon Avon

Global Gathering is a weekend of dance and music during July.  The event will feature Godskitchen, Bedrock, Polysexual, Electric, Global, Random Concept and Mixmag along with Sven Vath’s Cocoon Arena, Raveology, Roger Sanchez’s Stealth record label and Spectrum.  All Earlybird tickets have sold out but you can still purchase tickets for the new VIP arena.

To reduce the event’s impact on the environment, in terms of travelling to and from the event, the organizers are encouraging people ‘lift share’ with Lift Share.

Domaine Royal Palm is a luxury development in Morocco of villas, two hotels and leisure facilities including a golf course. Covering some 600 acres Domaine Royal Palm is home to 251 villas.

In terms of the environment:

• The earth used for walls and plaster is taken directly from the site;
• Solar generated energy is used to provide hot water and it also used to heat the swimming pool

From an earlier post - the Nokia Remade.

Sustainable Forestry Management Limited, which investments in tropical and subtropical forests, have been joined by the former BP Chief Executive Lord Browne on their Advisory Board.  Sustainable Forestry Management’s main revenues are generated by supplying and trading carbon dioxide emission credits and offsets and from the harvest of environmentally certified timber.

Upland Escapes offer independent walking holidays in Europe to places that you would not normally discover as part of a traditional holiday (from the French Pyrenees through to the The Julian Alps, in Slovenia).

Upland Escapes offer a form of low impact sustainable tourism which helps to support communities in remote rural areas. Importantly you can reach all of their destinations by train!

Interestingly Upland Escapes also donate a percentage of their profits to local projects and they are currently involved in the repair of a number of mountain footpaths. Their brochures are printed on recycled paper and their maps are printed on fully-recyclable waterproof paper.

Upland Escapes won TTG’s ‘Scream if You’re Green’ Travel Award 2007!