Sri Lanka: As Green as it Gets

Posted on August 12, 2008 - Filed Under Sri Lanka, Sustainable Tourism | Leave a Comment

The video takes you from the sea at Negombo to Vil Ulyana , a stunning eco-friendly resort on the plain near the rock fortress Sigiria, with its lusty lady cave paintings, the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Polonnaruwa, the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage, the Temple of the Tooth at Kandy, a look at ficus the […]

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An Interview with Arthur C. Clarke

Posted on March 19, 2008 - Filed Under Sri Lanka, Tech & Science, Sustainable Tourism, Video | Leave a Comment

I am headed to Sri Lanka next week and asked a mutual friend of mine and the late Arthur C. Clarke if it would be possible to see him. “I’ll try, but he is very weak”, was the reply. Clarke, of course, passed away yesterday. I spent a day in 1994 exploring the sandbox […]

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Do You Know The Way To Shangri-la - Podcast

Posted on December 2, 2006 - Filed Under Audio, China, Culture, Sustainable Tourism | Leave a Comment

So, here we are in the town square of Shangri-la, where every night villagers gather to dance? How does one get here?
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Global Warming Endangers Costa Rica’s Monteverde Cloud Forest

Posted on July 26, 2006 - Filed Under Costa Rica, Sustainable Tourism, Video | Leave a Comment

When you travel, you both take them and leave them. I think about this as I sit on my deck at home scraping Costa Rican mud off of my boots. Who knows what is in this stuff: maybe anteater scat, or some seeds dropped from the bill of a three-wattled bellbird that will plant themselves […]

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Tourism on the Mekong

Posted on February 10, 2006 - Filed Under Mekong, Audio, Travel Biz, Sustainable Tourism, Video | Leave a Comment

A Strategy for Sustainable Tourism for the Mekong Region
(How I spent my summer vacation)
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Ok, I gotta make a living too. But I am lucky enough to occasionally work on a project that is both interesting and makes me feel good. Last summer I was one of the consultants who helped create and communicate a […]

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