ECOCLUB, International Ecotourism Monthly, Issue 74

ECOCLUB

ISSN 1108-8931

Year 6 - Issue 74

Sponsored by: Zante Feast Discovery Holidays, Hana Maui Botanical Gardens, Jorth Consult Limited, Pacuare Lodge, Ecolife 2005 Fair

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ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS

Interview
Elliot Helman: San Francisco Green Hospitality Initiative

Eco Focus
Kazakhstan, Kerala, Zakynthos

Editorial: Planned Recycling: Still a Revolutionary Concept, Unfortunately

Have you ever thought of what happened to your first bike? Your first laptop? All the toiletries and expired or obsolete items you use and discard every day? Chances are they are in the nearest landfill. And chances are that this landfill is next to the underprivileged or slum area of your city. In some developing countries, slum dwellers even live - and die - from scavenging among the useful throwaways. In some "developed" countries, members of ethnic minorities such as the gypsies, or newly arrived immigrants survive, on the margins of society, by recycling, usually in a haphazard and dangerous manner, with their antique, rusty pickup trucks, or worse, on their backs. And now think of the lucky one tenth of society: think of leafy boulevards, super luxury hotels and their superfluous excesses in the course of impressing their snobbish patrons, bright lights, high-tech, expensive toiletries and all the items that can fill up empty hearts, rather than empty stomachs; where waste is a power statement. And then read our Interview with Elliot Helman, who found out how to make sense out of all this in San Francisco, proving to the cynic inside all of us, that one swallow does herald the spring.

Antonis B. Petropoulos, Editor

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