Blog entries

MamboViewPoint eco lodge, a new approach for sustainable development and tourism

Hermand Erdtsieck — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:11:17 +0100

MamboViewPoint is owned by social entrepreneurs Marion Neidt and Herman Erdtsieck. They travelled through many continents, cooperated with various development agencies and saw very many development projects. In the end they felt unhappy with the often very poor or even counterproductive results of many aid proRead More...

Mambo View Point Scholarship Program, Tanzania

Hermand Erdtsieck — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:53:41 +0100

Like in all places around the world, in Mambo and the surrounding villages there are many children who want to study after their primary school. However there is a difference... Some are not able to go to the secondary school because their parents can't afford to pay it. Some bright kids can't study on Read More...

Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries 2012 Seminars in Crete, Greece

Nikki Rose — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:47:15 +0100

Greetings from Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries Eco-Agritourism Network. We are celebrating our 15th year of organizing award-winning sustainable tourism and study abroad programs in Greece. Check out our 2012 open programs: http://www.cookingincrete.com/Schedule.html

CCS-University of Missouri Study Tour in Crete, Greece

Nikki Rose — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:38:48 +0100

The Mediterranean Diet and Lifestyle
Join fellow dietitians, students and University of Missouri Nutrition and Exercise Physiology Department faculty member, Candy Gabel in Greece!

When: May 14 – May 26, 2012
What:
The Greece location of the Mediterranean Diet and Lifestyle study abroad course provides an ideal setting for a two week overview of the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet and way of life. You will study different aspects of the MedRead More...

African safaris ecotourism hotspots in Tanzania.

Melleo Mrema — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:59:01 +0100

Tanzania travel as a unique wildlife safari and ecotourism destination in Africa

Just as you got out of plane at Kilimanjaro International Airport, JRO, Car will send you to Eco Lodge in Arusha Outskirts to enjoy, relax in real ecotourism environment.

The Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge is the Eco Lodge nearest to Arusha National park and offers excellent accommodatioRead More...

Happy New Year 2012

Shams Uddin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:01:13 +0100

Wish you all the ECOCLUB friends a very happy new year 2012!

Free Webinar: Experiential Travel - differentiating your destination while benefitting communities

Judy Karwacki — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:10:00 +0100

Free Webinar: Register Today!

Experiential Travel: Differentiating Your Destination
While Spreading the Benefits to Communities

Hosted by tourism experts Judy Karwacki and Nancy Arsenault

Jan. 10, 9aRead More...

happy landings

Antonis Petropoulos — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:57:59 +0100

When I first read it I thought it was a holiday joke, no it is serious. In one more victory of “The Markets” over common sense, airlines have been cleared by America’s aviation regulators to use twin-jet aircraft (notably the Boeing 777 and 787) over the North Pole, supposedly saving fuel costs and the environment and allowing non-stop flights from Europe to Pacific destinations such as Fiji or Hawaii. It is easy to comprehend the joy of the airlines and of the aiRead More...

Happy Merry Christmas and New Year 2012!

Shams Uddin — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:09:24 +0100

Wish all friends a happy Merry Christmas!

Turtles in Trouble

Antonis Petropoulos — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:02:28 +0100

Uncontrolled and ever-expanding packaged tourism and coastal development, along with overfishing in the Mediterranean is taking its toll on resources and what still survives of the marine wildlife.

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm_Uf0vNh84 640x360]

Above is a pleasant to watch, yet informative video aimed at resort staff (but also suitable for schools) in coastal resorts popular with nesting sea turtles, so that the adverse impact of mass tourism can Read More...

Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries featured in Treehugger

Nikki Rose — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:32:17 +0100

Eco-Friendly Foodies Explore the Birthplace of the Mediterranean Diet

Eco-Friendly Foodies Explore the Birthplace of the Mediterranean Diet

by Jennifer Hattam
Treehugger / Living / Travel
November 26, 2011

http://www.treehugger.com/travel/culinary-ecotourism-crete.html

Crete: The Roots of the Mediterranean Diet, presentation by Chef-Author Nikki Rose at Bethesda Green

Nikki Rose — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:25:20 +0100

Bethesda, Maryland, December 11, 2011, 12:30 - 3:30 pm: Presentation at Bethesda Green by Chef Nikki Rose, Founder of the award-winning Crete’s Culinary Sanctuaries Eco-Agritourism Network and author of “Crete: The Roots of the Mediterranean Diet, enjoying the benefits of one of the world‘s healthiest cuisines wherever you live.“ PresRead More...

DID YOU KNOW VIDEO on Tourism's Role in Global Economy

Megan Epler Wood — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:11:10 +0100

In September 2011, the Planeterra Foundation released an important video on the role of tourism in developing countries.

In the video you will learn that tourism support 10% of all economic activity on the planet. It supports 8% of all global employment, and 1/3 of all commercial exports in the world.

Please see this video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5kLmcqHA_g

MIND TATTOOS:Garish Designs From An Adult life Spent Showing 100,000 Tourists The Amazon

Eric Schwartz — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:57:52 +0100

EVEN Cartographers have inside jokes. For in the country of Ecuador, in its Amazon basin

lies a town that when I arrived in 1984, on the shores of the Napo River, was so pustulent

and forelorn, that the whole pueblo seemed to teeter a bit under the weight of its

conquistatory name: FRANCISCO DE ORELLANA. In fact, most people just called it CocaRead More...

99%: now the world!

Antonis Petropoulos — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:53:45 +0100

A very interesting video on the 99% movement presenting the underlying income inequality statistics can be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/video/2011/nov/16/99-v-1-occupy-data-animation.

The Vision of Humanity website also has very interesting statistical data nicely presented,
the following is on income inequality worldwide: http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/#/2011/gini/
Income inequality is increasing worldwide with more people fallRead More...

Planeterra Moves Ahead With New Projects

Megan Epler Wood — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:12:34 +0100

In the last 6 months, Planeterra Foundation has been very busy developing new projects in Cusco and Macchu Picchu, and other valleys near the Inca Trail, the Galapagos Islands, Thailand, Kenya, Guatemala and soon Chiapas, Mexico!

Our website is presently being revised, but our blog is now becoming more active on projects with voices of all of our project managers represented!

Check out the first in the series, which I wrote on Chiapas. Learn how orchids oRead More...

Save the Perhentian Islands, Malaysia

Daniel quilter — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:16:12 +0100

The Perhentian Islands are renowned for being the most beautiful Islands in Malaysia and this title is warranted. The coral sand beaches are lined by palm trees on one side and fringing coral reefs on the other. If Robinson Crusoe was to be filmed they Read More...

If you go down to the woods today, you might get a big surprise!

Daniel quilter — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:03:00 +0100

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Between Sisyphus and Epicurus

Antonis Petropoulos — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:24:21 +0100

Deceitful King Sisyphus was condemned by Zeus to eternally carry a boulder to a top of the hill with the boulder rolling down again. Sisyphus has been interpreted as representing vain politicians, aspiring for eternal glory and eternally failing. Epicurus on the other hand praised the virtues of a pleasant, just and detached - including from politics - life. On tRead More...

Interview in Greek Reporter with Nikki Rose, CCS Founder

Nikki Rose — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:56:06 +0100

What’s Cooking? Nikki Rose Professional Chef & Culinary Writer Talks About Life on Crete and New Book

Greek Reporter, 15 October 2011 by Lorraine Eyre

Nikki Rose is a Greek American editor, culinary writer and professional chef. She is also the founder of Crete’s Culinary Sanctuaries which works to protect Crete’s cultural and culinary heritage, the root of the Mediterranean diet. She has received numerous awards for her innovative projects that brRead More...