Global Eco Asia Pacific Tourism Conference 25-28 Oct 2010

Ecotourism Australia, with the support of the Queensland Government and Tourism Queensland is currently organising the organisation’s eighteenth annual conference, the Global Eco Asia-Pacific Tourism Conference. The 2010 Global Eco Conference will be held 25-28 October at Queensland’s Sunshine Coast and is themed Experience is Everything! Convenor’s Message Global Eco 2010 brings together practitioners from [...]

Ten tips for being a green traveler

When it comes to travel, it’s actually easy being green. Just think small. It may sound simplistic, but it’s the little things a traveler does before, during and sometimes after a trip that add up to an environmentally responsible, low-footprint, guilt-free vacation. For the seriously green traveler, the process begins way before one boards a [...]

Plastic-free resort planned

We’d like to see one in Singapore. The state government is considering turning the hill resort here into a plastic-free area to protect its fragile environment. Polystyrene boxes are another item on the possible ban list, said Pahang exco member Datuk Shafik Fauzan Sharif. The move, he said, was in line with the recent decision [...]

Butterfly Trail launched on Orchard Road

The Butterfly Trail at Orchard, a project by NParks, STB, Orchard Road Business Association and Nature Society Singapore (NSS), was launched yesterday afternoon by Prof. Tommy Koh. Worth taking a look to remind ourselves that Orchard Road’s not just about shopping. Now you can augment your GSS with some nature! Most visitors to Singapore are [...]

Heart of Borneo

Do you know a place where orang utans, pygmy elephants, clouded leopards, hornbills and many other exotic species call their home? Where you can fall asleep under the canopy of a dense tropical forest. Where you receive morning calls from gibbons and feel the forest mist on your skin. Where indigenous people speak their own [...]

Big interventions needed to offset World Cup carbon emissions

With an estimated carbon footprint of 2 753 250 t of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e), the FIFA 2010 World Cup, in South Africa, would have the largest carbon footprint of any major international sporting event, and would need major interventions to achieve the ambition of leaving a positive environmental legacy. The massive footprint was largely [...]

Singapore’s Trash Lives in Paradise?

Previously, I never thought about discussing anything on Singapore’s waste disposal system on Green Kampong. My assumption then was that most of this stuff is common knowledge. That was until I told a friend I was going to Pulau Semakau and received a blank look and a sheepish “Umm… where’s that?” reply. I tried my [...]