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• Save Jamaica’s Blue Lagoon

  4 May 2011 by Karin in Environment [ 4 comments ]

  The following is by a concerned Jamaican Mr. Marc Goodman. One of the Caribbean's most spectacular and tranquil natural sites, Jamaica's Blue Lagoon has long been abandoned to touts, illegal activity and decay, but is now being developed (most recent being ...

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• How to Green a Hotel – A Case Study of Hotel Mocking Bird Hill

  9 April 2011 by Karin in Environment [ 4 comments ]

  [caption id="attachment_12048" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Hotel Mocking Bird Hill, Portland"][/caption] Here's the link to Barbara Walker's presentation made at the recent ECCO Magazine's Green conference. The presentation was entitled "Reducing Carbon Emissions Through Sustainable Living" and focused on the procedures and management strategies implemented to ...

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• Rootz Underground Planting Trees

  1 April 2011 by Karin in Environment,Music,Rootz Underground [ no comments ]

    Here's a great story in the Observer about Rootz Underground's new initiative to encourage persons to plant trees around the world. They are trying to have 100,000 trees planted in the next year. Lots more about Rootz Underground in our archives.  

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• Green Your Biz Conference Highlights How to Save Money Being Green

  24 March 2011 by Karin in Environment,Happening on the Edge 2011 [ 2 comments ]

  The Green Your Business conference was held on Tuesday, March 22 at the Mona Visitors Lodge, UWI, presented by Shelly-Ann Dunkley and E.C.C.O Magazine, Jamaica’s leading eco-friendly lifestyle publication.  The theme of the conference was “Green Your Biz 2011: Creating ...

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• Green Your Biz: Creating ECO-nomic Solutions Conference and Trade Show

  18 March 2011 by Karin in Environment,Happening on the Edge 2011 [ no comments ]

  On March 22, 2011, E.C.C.O Magazine, Jamaica’s leading eco-friendly lifestyle publication, will host “Green Your Biz 2011: Creating ECO-nomic Solutions” at the University of the West Indies’ Mona Visitors’ Lodge. The inaugural conference will feature organisations that are leading the way ...

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• Government Wages War on the Environment

  13 May 2010 by Karin in Environment [ 2 comments ]

  [caption id="attachment_8200" align="alignnone" width="570" caption="Cockpit Country"][/caption] Here is a statement put out by members of the Jamaica Environmental Advocacy Network (JEAN) on what they are calling a "war on the environment"... Your thoughts? "Reeling from announcement after announcement of the pending destruction of ...

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