| New Green Travel Guide Changes Landscape of British Tourism
Climb to your bed in the canopy in Cornwall. Pack your fishing rod and perch by the rock pools at Cumbrias secluded forest eco-lodge. Explore a plethora of colour at Canterburys permanent farmers market. Experiment with organic ales at Islingtons Duke of Cambridge pub. Toast with a dram or two at an organic hotel on an island off an island. These are just some of the green experiences contained in the UKs newest independent travel guide, ecoescape. There are sustainable travel ideas for every step of the way: from places to stay and things to do, to places to eat and ways to get there, including child-friendly ideas and inspiration for an active organic lifestyle. The journey starts from the moment you close the front door behind you. ecoescape covers public transport and national cycle networks - an ecoescape could be as close to home as the local cycle path or the nearest railway station.
Fort Chambray changes
The Malta Environment and Planning Authority yesterday unanimously approved modifications to landscaping and apartments as well as an extension to an underground car park at Fort Chambray, in Gozo. The authority followed the advice of its Planning Directorate and sanctioned the development subject to a number of conditions. These relate to landscaping, monitoring and a planning contribution. A spokesman for the directorate told the meeting the developer was now obliged to complete the eastern portion of the site as an initial phase as described in the deed with the government. In view of the fact that the residential units within the zone have been launched on the market, the application included various internal and external changes to the completed units.
DC Water Resource Authority Endorses Xeriscaping
Approximately ¾ of water used in Douglas County during the summer months goes towards watering non-native bluegrass. For this reason and several others, Douglas County Government, the Douglas County Water Resource Authority (DCWRA), the South Metro Water Supply Authority and the Centennial Water & Sanitation District have collaborated in distributing a DVD to inform and encourage residents to switch from the traditional bluegrass landscape to a Xeriscape™ landscape. This Xeriscape™ DVD will be direct mailed to all single family Douglas County homeowners and portions of Arapahoe County in April. "One of the best reasons to live in Douglas County is our beautiful and diverse culture and landscape," said Mark Shively, Douglas County Water Resource Authority president. "As homeowners, we contribute to the beauty of our own surroundings by the choices we make in our own years and gardens.
In the Know Lee County: US 41 landscaping waiting for DOT OK
Q. What plans, if any, does Bonita Springs, Lee County or Florida DOT have for landscaping the center islands of the newly widened U.S. 41 from Bonita Beach Road to Corkscrew Road? If they plan to landscape the center islands, when will it be started and finished? Harry Del Plato, Bonita Springs .
Nature Was The Inspiration
Looking south from Further Lane in Amagansett across the farm field on Adelaide de Menil and Edmund Carpenter's 40-acre property, toward the undulating trunks of chokecherry trees, with their soft branch tops penciling the horizon, the only inkling of the Atlantic Ocean just over a gentle rise behind them is the watercolored blue of the sky. The grove of native chokecherries, underplanted with dainty white snowdrops and shooting stars, was left intact when the couple moved a number of historic houses near them, lending an elegant, archival air. Over the rise toward the beach is the Nature Conservancy's Atlantic Double Dunes Preserve, where 3,000 years ago ocean waves broke much farther inland than they do today, creating a rare geological feature: a line of secondary dunes that stands back from the primary dune on the ocean shore, and has become home to upland shorefront plants — hardy species that can weather the wind and salt.
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