Ritz-Carlton to open a sustainable luxury sanctuary on Pearl Island

Private Island Resort Experience Blending Seclusion, Sophistication and Unspoiled Natural Beauty. Reachable by boat, helicopter or plane through a private airstrip, Pearl Island at 45 miles south of Panama City is a virtually untouched paradise featuring an extensive private natural reserve with over half of the island undisturbed.  Here the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company chose to expand … Read more

The future of the iconic koala

  Native only to Australia, the Koala populationsare listed in the majority of eastern Australia as vulnerable to extinction. The main threat to the koala is loss and degradation of habitat. Organizations like WIRES from Australia are doing what they can to help koala populations survive. Wires is the largest wildlife rescue service in Australia, … Read more

The largest urban farm in Japan

Pasona Urban Farm with a vertical farm inside and out.  Kono Designs, the architecture firm behind the largest urban farm in Japan, hopes that 15,000 square foot corporate office building with a double skinned green facade will make urbanites reconsider agriculture and embrace this new design trend. 20% of the Tokyo based recruitment agency Pasona … Read more

Benetti’s Ocean Paradise is the “greenest” yacht of the 2013 Monaco Yacht Show

Benetti Yacht OCEAN PARADISE receives RINA GREEN PLUS prize   The solutions studied and adopted in the field of environment protection brought Benetti Yacht’s OCEAN PARADISE the prestigious Rina Green Plus prize which honours yacht constructors’ efforts to reduce the carbon footprints of their vessels. The Green Plus certification label introduced by marine services company … Read more

Wildlife comeback in Europe, but many species have not yet reached sustainable populations levels

Wildlife Comeback in Europe study released.  The European bison, the White-tailed eagle, and Eurasian beaver, in total 37 mammal and bird species have recovered over the past 50 years, according to “Wildlife Comeback in Europe” in-depth report of scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), BirdLife International, the European Bird Census Council (EBCC) and … Read more

Naturally Clicquot eco-friendly potatoes and paper bottle

  Veuve Clicquot‘s champagne had always artistic innovative packaging like origami-style foldable champagne bucket by Belgian designer Mathias Van De Walle or Jeff Koons’ mini replicas of his life-sized “Balloon Venus” art installations for Rosé Vintage 2003. With Veuve Clicquot‘s “Naturally Clicquot” packaging by French designer Cédric Ragot, the famous French champagne house based in … Read more