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Ecotourists have turned their gaze on Madagascar and its bounty of lemurs - tourism was up by 21% between 2004 and 2005 - but outside the capital, Antananarivo, there are few decent hotels. Local subsistence farmers don't care much, and thus President Marc Ravalomanana, who is determined to pull the world's fourth largest island out of its economic quagmire, craves outside entrepreneurs to boost the hospitality business. Which is how Marie-José de Speville and Karl-Heinz Horner moved from the Seychelles to Joffreville, a small mountain village 30 km from the northerly port of Diego Suarez. Joffreville...
Ecotourists have turned their gaze on Madagascar and its bounty of lemurs?tourism was up by 21% between 2004 and 2005?but outside the capital, Antananarivo, there are few decent hotels. Local subsistence farmers don't care much, and thus President Marc Ravalomanana, who is determined to pull the world's fourth largest island out of its economic quagmire, craves outside entrepreneurs to boost the hospitality business...
Meanwhile, the opportunities to offset emissions are growing. Conservation International, for instance, helped Mitsubishi and Pearl Jam funnel their offsetting funds into rain-forest protection in Madagascar. And Coldplay did more than enough to offset its last album, X&Y, by protecting forests in Mexico and Ecuador. Internet ventures with names like TerraPass, myclimate and Drive Neutral enable commuters and air travelers to calculate their emissions and neutralize the damage. Some even aim to turn a profit...
...coats and skinny pants--seemed to provide merely a clean backdrop for more ornate (and more profitable) accessories like handbags. And ornate's the word: Fendi's new Palazzo bag, a bucket shape with gold etching, was inspired by the brand's new Roman headquarters, while Bottega Veneta's Madagascar bag is made out of vegetable-dyed crocodile...
...coats and skinny pants - seemed merely to provide a clean backdrop for more ornate (and more profitable) accessories like handbags. And ornate's the word: Fendi's new Palazzo bag, a bucket shape with gold etching, was inspired by the brand's new Roman headquarters, while Bottega Veneta's Madagascar bag is made of vegetable-dyed crocodile. Just as happens in the Olympics, when a star comes along and does something quite different from anything seen before, every so often a designer will, for no apparent reason, show something completely out of synch with everything else. In Milan, that designer...