A new generation of Ecotourism professionals

Posted on December 15, 2009 by quest

Megan Epler Wood’s Mission

A new generation of Ecotourism professionals

Ecotourism icon Megan Epler Wood was recently named a Fellow with the Institute at the Golden Gate. In that role as well as others she is on a mission to help inspire a new generation of ecotourism professionals. Megan Epler Wood founded The International Ecotourism Society in 1990, the first and largest ecotourism NGO in the world and was its president for 12 years. Under her leadership, TIES developed a membership program in over 100 countries, publications, workshops and stakeholder meetings that reached tens of thousands, and an international communications program that reached millions.

Epler Wood has been a keynote speaker at events in over a dozen countries. She has lectured at Harvard, Duke, Columbia Business School, and the International Centre for Responsible Tourism at Leeds Metropolitan University in the U.K. She was the lead ecotourism lecturer at George Washington University from 1995-2000. Megan lectured on ecotourism planning as a tool in economic development at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain in April 2008.

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Solar goes Solar, Cows go Green

Posted on December 8, 2009 by quest

From spaced based solar power plants

to making your own solar panels for under $100, the effects of the “green economy” are making it’s way into all aspects of our world. PG & E has just inked a deal with Solaren, a Southern California start-up to launch components for a solar power plant into orbit and sell the electricity it generates to Pacific Gas and Electric. The deal was approved by the California Public Utilities Commission. The project is supposed to be turned on in 2016.

Solaren, founded by veterans of Hughes Aircraft, Boeing and Lockheed, plans to deploy a free-floating inflatable Mylar mirror over half a mile in diameter. This will collect and concentrate sunlight on a smaller mirror, that in turn will focus the rays on photovoltaic modules.
California regulators approved a utility contract for the first space-based solar power plant in the U.S. The 200-megawatt orbiting solar farm would convert solar energy collected in space into radio frequency waves, which would be beamed to a ground station near Fresno, in California’s central valley. These radio waves would then be transformed into electricity to be fed into the power grid.

Cows go green

Never underestimate the human spirit, just as big energy power players are beginning to show just how much juice they have; right back here on earth; Home Made Energy and others are offering “how to kits” that show you how to go green and build your own solar panels for under $100. The race is on. Seems everything is going green. Including… well see for yourself! Do the green thing!

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Green Up, something you can do!

Posted on November 30, 2009 by quest

The season of thanks and giving is upon us. So that means lots of new movies. One I just checked out was 2012. You’ve got to give it to Hollywood. Here’s a blockbuster flick doing a makeover of the hit biblical script, Noah’s Ark.

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This is Noah’s Ark 3.0. Natural disasters just like man made disasters all have victims. This one starts with massive solar flares from our own Sun! I thought solar power was suppose to save us.

Anyway in 2012 solar flares cause explosions within earth’s inner molten core, triggering a global shift of our beloved earth’s surface. This is when all hell, er ah earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, thousand foot tsunami waves, you know your basic hell on earth end of dayz type thing gets going. This is a disaster film like I’ve not seen before. Totally dramatic! Thing is though in 2012 even though we humans get washed out and our way of life is over… sign of the times? A new life lies ahead…

Green UP! Something you can do.

Listen in on Kevin Hopkins’s interview with QuestPoint N the Mix. Kevin is an author of ECO INSTITUTION‘s Certified Green Consultant online training course.

Kevin R. Hopkins is a former White House Aid, veteran energy and environmental policy analyst with extensive experience in training and professional services.

An economist by training, he has been a senior contributing editor to Business Week magazine, the world’s leading business publication, for the past 18 years, and has written widely on economic, energy, and environmental issues. More recently, he has developed online, coach-centered training programs for such organizations as the Professional Education Institute, the National Association of Realtors, Morningstar, the National Organization on Disability, the Pacific Institute, M3 Interactive, Stephen R. Covey, and Rich Dad Education/Robert Kiyosaki.

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A Green Wave

Posted on November 17, 2009 by quest

San Francisco Green Festival

just completing it’s 8th year pulled in a record of 45,000 people. Like the InterSolar convention earlier this year there was San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom laying it down with other green leaders Phaedra Ellis Lamkins, of Green Jobs for all and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now.

The San Francisco Green Festivals, a joint project of Global Exchange and Green America, celebrates what’s working in our communities—for people, business and the environment. Here, green means safe, healthy communities and a strong local economy. The event is one of the nation’s premier sustainability events, offering the best in green. The festival had more than 350 exhibitors, 125 authors, leaders and educators; great how-to workshops; cutting-edge films; fun activities for kids; organic beer and wine; delicious vegetarian cuisine and diverse live music.

San Franciscans have caught the green wave and riding it in just about every direction.

The future of Solar

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Now here’s something that seems as if history is repeating itself and sort of turns the idea of sustainability upside down. The Desertec Industrial Initiative is an energy cartel that seeks to harness the solar power of the Sahara and send it to energy starved Europe. It’s an ambitious plan but the fact is that sun energy falling on desert areas is naturally far greater than that of other areas of the world. The cartel involves the giants of European industry. They have put forward a massive plan to bring this into reality by 2050. Extensive work has already been completed and a strong case for the advantages of the plan are being made now.

Even as Americans are entering a green renaissance and the opportunity for solar systems ownership is becoming a reality for many, the demand for energy is and will be so great large scale solar power plants must be part of a global distribution policy; working through smart grid systems. Is it just me? Or is the Desertec plan alot like the current strategy of big oil harnessing the resources of other underdeveloped countries and reallocating them elsewhere? The political and economic impact seem apparent.

solar station 278x225 A Green Wave Also consider that Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is engaged in a massive effort to establish space solar stations to transmit solar power where the sun’s strength is five times more powerful than that which reaches the earth’s atmosphere.They’ll transmit concentrated beams of power back down to earth where huge processing centers will then distribute the power through the grid. Is this the future of global green energy?

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Solar Power to the People!

Posted on November 4, 2009 by quest

Here’s the story, solar is hot….

green is in. It is exciting! Attendance at the 2009 Solar Power International show in Anaheim was estimated at 25,000. The number of exhibitors doubled from last year. Consumers, businesses and interested parties are in learn mode. A couple of developments that confirm an earlier article I wrote called, (listen here) – Transformers. In it I discuss the potential drama to come as the “status quo” faces off against new energy sources.

So on the table now, The Solar Rights Manifesto being championed by Barry Cinnamon, CEO of Akeena Solar seeks to eliminate the bottleneck of building inspections and paperwork that faces new solar panel owners who are purchasing systems under 10 kilowatts. The elimination of this mountain of forms would drive costs down even further and as a result bring a solar system within closer reach of even more consumers. The proposal was well received at the convention, let’s see where it goes from here.

The Solar Rights Manifesto

Solar Energy Industries Association CEO Rhone Resch, announced a Solar Bill of Rights, which I encourage you to read here.

SOLAR BILL OF RIGHTS.

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Green Gold Rush:
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Many paths for Green Pioneers

Posted on October 20, 2009 by quest

Carol McClelland, Phd

the author of the soon to be released Green Careers for Dummies was wise and on the mark in her recent online interview with www.QuestPointnTheMix.com. The book due in early 2010 explores and uncovers the significant transition our society is under going as the old

economy slowly grows green. As she point’s out It was just two years ago that the phrase “going green” began to make its way into our everyday language, in part based on former Vice President Al Gore’s Noble Prize Winning film, An Inconvenient Truth.

In fact it was two years ago that she rebranded her business into GreenCareerCentral.com, a leading career coaching firm that helps those seeking a career in the new green economy. What was surprising to her was the fact that there are over forty five (45) different industries that are “Green” and the list is growing. Carol incorporates her many years in career coaching into her new book, Green Careers for Dummies which despite the title, the publisher takes pains to emphasize that the books are not literally for dummies but rather “A Reference for the Rest of Us.” To date, over 1,600

For Dummies titles have been published.  It is encouraging to connect with someone who is as knowledgeable as she is. She suggested that those seeking a place in the new green economy recognize that we are pioneers brazing a path to a new future. You can hear the full interview at the new QuestPoint webcast site: www.QuestPointnTheMix.com and download it from there if you choose.

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