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Tuesday, 13 September 2011 00:53 |
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Sustainabletv.org (stv) promotes people, projects and organizations working on making the planet a better place for all.
Currently, the site's focus is on ecotourism done correctly, in order to help conserve land, while contributing to the development of sustainable, local economies.
Mitch Popa, founder of sustainabletv.org has produced 10 ecolodge profiles in Costa Rica and numerous documentaries about the country. All those programs plus many others, are available on Sustainabletv.org.
Sustainabletv.org is uploadable and others are encouraged to share their story about ecotourism or any of the other programming categories on stv. |
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011 22:22 |
 SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR, 2011- For the first time online, El Salvador is “speaking the language” of international travel companies with a new centralized booking system for eco and adventure travel: www.ecoexperienciaselsalvador.com. This website provides detailed information on multitudes of new itineraries in Central America’s least explored country, El Salvador. |
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011 18:42 |
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 Article courtesy of Southern Cone Journeys
In Chile, as in many other countries, ecotourism has become a widely used term to describe any tourism activity carried out in the natural environment. Dozens of companies claim they offer ecotourism while their business is centered on adventure tourism or other types of activities. Although they are set in a natural environment, they are far from practicing the principles of ecotourism, such as environmental and cultural interpretation and benefits for local communities.
The term is used loosely and with no official eco-certification scheme in place in Chile, nobody can actually credit its authenticity. Having lived in Australia and Costa Rica, two countries with eco-certification systems that have been standing for a long time, I have been able to see the pros and cons of eco-labels.
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Tuesday, 19 July 2011 17:07 |
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Contributed by Diana McIntyre-Pike, President Countrystyle Community Tourism Network/International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) Caribbean
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Community Tourism, Heritage Tourism, Responsible Tourism and Sustainable Tourism are all brand names for the sustainable approach towards the development of tourism in any country or destination. Community-based tourism is a product which falls under this approach and is a 'mindset' change of developing tourism in a holistic way:
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Wednesday, 01 June 2011 07:28 |
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 UKIAH, Calif. (May 19, 2011) – The Super 8 Ukiah hotel, Mendocino County’s only green-certified hotel, today announced the addition of an on-site AeroVironment electric vehicle (EV) charging station and designated parking spaces for low emission and hybrid vehicles. The two additions are the latest in a long list of green enhancements undertaken by the hotel in the last year.
Others have included the use of biodegradable serving ware in the dining room, the launch of a linen reuse program, installation of programmable timers for lighting systems and double-paned low emissivity windows, and putting in ENERGY STAR-compliant lighting, ice machines, printers and other appliances.
“We are committed to doing our part to protect our environment,” said Raakesh Patel, owner of the Super 8 Ukiah hotel. “The addition of an EV charging station not only differentiates our hotel from the competition but enables our environmentally-conscious guests to recharge their cars while they recharge themselves.”
The property has even gone green when it comes to pro-active pest control, using Terminix’sTM environmentally-friendly Eco-Control system, which focuses on the integration of non-chemical treatments and “low impact” products made from natural plant oils. It also replaced exterior lighting with energy saving 40-watt induction bulbs, of which the hotel’s utility company helped cover approximately 60 percent of the cost.
We’ve tried to take a holistic look at our hotel and make changes that are both cost effective as well impactful, and that’s how we plan to continue to make enhancements,” says Patel. “In the long run, the upgrades pay for themselves, and we’re able to take pride in knowing that we’re not only helping our planet but also improving the experience of all our guests.”
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Wednesday, 02 February 2011 19:58 |
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 By Megan Kimble, Green Living Project
February, 2011
From Albuquerque, highway 25 sprawls northeast to Santa Fe and Taos, alongside vast mountain ranges, beside pastel-red adobe homes and flashing casino
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Monday, 17 January 2011 17:30 |
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By Greenair Online
January, 2011
Wed 12 Jan 2011 – Legislation has been proposed to establish a Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) forest biomass pilot project that would create jet fuel from wood waste and mill residue.
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Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:24 |
NEW YORK - A new Harris Poll that measures the attitudes of Americans to 13 countries in or near to the Middle East finds that only one, Israel, is widely seen as a close ally (43%).
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 12:56 |
Hopefully, this country will never forget what happened on April 20th, 2010. That was the day that the BP oil rig exploded and began one of the largest oil spills in our history of drilling and refining oil. The impact of a tragedy like the Gulf oil spill will be felt for years to come. At Green Travel Hub, our hope is that a tragedy like this will bring change and awareness towards cleaner energy sources and the advancement of technology to make clean energy more mainstream and affordable. Here’s a great video from the Environmental Defense Fund regarding the spill:
What Can You Do?
The best way that Americans can respond to the Gulf oil spill is to continue to modify our lifestyle to be better stewards of energy and to support businesses that are turning to alternatie energy sources such as some of the green hotels in our directory. At home and when you travel, the choices you make will help determine whether we turn to clean energy sources so the chance of large oil spills will be reduced.
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:33 |
On Monday, we received a phone call from a reporter at Fox 35 Orlando wanting to interview us about green housekeeping and hotels offering financial incentives to guests that chose to skip out on housekeeping during their stay. Our very own, Erik Folgate, was interviewed for the piece. It was a short cameo in the story, but it was still some good exposure for RezHub. Thanks to Fox News!
At more than 150 Sheraton and Westin properties in North America, you get rewarded for opting out of daily housekeeping. In other words, if you stay more than one night, every morning you hang that sign on the door and tell the maid to not enter the room, you get a hotel credit for food and beverages or 500 Starwood points. This is only at select Sheratons and Westins. Some other select hotels have experimented with this such as the Seaport Hotel in Boston offering free valet for hybrid and electric vehicles, and the MarMara hotel in Manhattan offering a $20 credit off of your hotel stay for every night you opt out of housekeeping.
While less housekeeping on a daily basis is good for the environment, many people feel that hotels are trying to cut corners and save mone on housekeeping staff. They feel that it will reduce the amount of housekeeping jobs in the hospitality industry. I think the way to prevent this is for hotels to cross train their housekeeping staff so they can transition to other areas of work within the hotel if the demand for housekeeping goes down significantly.
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