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Mexico’s Los Arboles Tulum eco-community makes its first sale

Los Arboles Tulum offers hideaway seekers an affordable opportunity to be part of a jungle community in the heart of the Riviera Maya, with permeable roads, off-grid energy systems, minutes away from world-class beaches, Mayan ruins, and Mexico’s largest Biosphere Reserve, Sian Kaan.

November 13th, 2008 | 0 comments | Read more
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Mexico’s Inn at Loreto Bay wins Green Globe Award for eco-standards

The Inn at Loreto Bay has achieved Green Globe’s Bronze status by implementing an integrated environmental and social policy, committing itself to benchmarking its energy and water consumption, total waste production and community involvement.

November 5th, 2008 | 0 comments | Read more
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Sandos Hotels & Resorts begins work on an All-Inclusive Eco-Resort in Mexico

Slated to open in 2009, the new Sandos property will focus on environmentalism, wildlife and eco-system preservation. Guests will be able to observe and engage in ecological techniques and practices and participate in wildlife protection efforts.

October 29th, 2008 | 0 comments | Read more
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‘Your Planet Needs You’ - Mexico hosts World Environment Day

Mexico, which accounts for around 1.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, is demonstrating its commitment to climate change on several fronts. At the crossroads of the Green Economy and one increasingly in the center of regional and global affairs, Mexico will host the international 2009 World Environment Day celebrations.

September 23rd, 2008 | 0 comments | Read more
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Santa Fe International Conference on Creative Tourism - September 2008

UNESCO Creative Tourism Conference teaches fundamentals of Creative Tourism as “a global conversation,” featuring the world’s leaders on creative tourism.

August 10th, 2008 | 0 comments | Read more
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Eco-adventure at a new resort in Mexico benefits Waterkeeper® Alliance

The new resort donates up to $1 million in net profits to the non-profit chaired by Bobby Kennedy, Jr. Donations from the resort will be directed toward supporting global water quality protection and the five Waterkeeper programs located throughout Mexico.

July 25th, 2008 | 0 comments | Read more
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New recommended reading: ‘First Stop in the New World’

David Lida moved to Mexico City fifteen years ago in search of a kind of culture, energy, and spontaneity that he thought had been lost in his native New York City. What he found was a thriving, miraculous urban center comprising centuries of living history, even as its rapid development was making it a prominent force on the world stage.

June 13th, 2008 | 0 comments | Read more
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2008 Colibri Ecotourism Award by Planeta.com

World Environment Day is June 5, and in celebration Planeta.com presents the seventh annual Colibri Ecotourism Award presented to a leader working in Mexico. Planeta.com will be sharing news about the winner in just a few weeks.

May 15th, 2008 | 0 comments | Read more
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Riviera Maya, Mexico gets a new Eco-Friendly Hacienda Tres Ríos this Summer

Hacienda Tres Ríos will be opening its doors and welcoming guests on July 2, 2008. The luxury, eco-friendly resort covers 326 acres of beautiful land, enjoying surroundings of the sea, fresh water canals and tropical vistas with rivers, an estuary, ten cenotes (fresh water springs) and a private one-mile stretch of sandy white beach.

March 10th, 2008 | 0 comments | Read more
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Cruises still an Eco-Nightmare

Last week, we featured a story about the cruise industry surrounding Mexico and how it is working to clean up its act. Now, a recent story by the UK’s famed Telegraph has determined that cruises are the highest-ranked “eco offenders” in the travel industry.

January 26th, 2008 | 0 comments | Read more
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New Cruise Initiative to Protect Mexican Reefs

Over the past few months, we have featured a number of articles highlighting the dangers to the oceans’ coral reefs by human tourism. Some studies are even suggesting that Caribbean reefs are rapidly heading toward extinction due to the high volumes of tourists as well as increased water acidification and warming temperatures; conditions in which [...]

January 20th, 2008 | 0 comments | Read more

Conservationsts and Developers Face Off Over Pristine Mexican Reserve

by Eliza Barclay
More than 700 academics and researchers affiliated with the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation have called on the Mexican government to put a halt to the development of one of its richest biological treasures, the Chamela-Cuixmala biosphere reserve in Jalisco state on the Pacific Ocean.

August 28th, 2007 | 0 comments | Read more

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