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...even space travel (if Sir Richard Branson's recently unveiled ambitions are anything to go by) will one day be within the financial grasp of the average tourist. But before you allow this to plunge you into existential despair, take note of a marvelous new book. The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel, out this month, is the guidebook publisher's attempt to make us see ordinary places in extraordinary ways, thereby revealing the new horizons that beckon right under our noses. "Experimental travel" is the clever invention of Joel Henry, a French journalist who, in 1990, began devising amusing...
...Portugal, the BioRegional Development Group - the independent British environmental organization that started up BedZED - and the global conservation organization wwf are working with a developer to create a "one-planet living" ecotourism project south of Lisbon. Using 100% renewable energy and creating a transport network designed to virtually eliminate private cars, the Mata de Sesimbra development will combine a 4,800-hectare cork-forest restoration project with a 500-hectare tourism development. Based on their experiences with BedZED, BioRegional and wwf will be incorporating similar innovative ecological elements into the Portuguese project. They don't plan to stop at Europe...
...average stomping ground is currently around 2.2 hectares, 21% more than is sustainable. "Footprinting is a snapshot," says Rob Holdway, the WEEE Man project director whose consultancy, Giraffe Innovation, provides businesses with advice on WEEE compliance. "We now need 1.2 earths to sustain our lifestyles. If everyone on the planet lived like people in Europe, we would need three planets to support the global population...
...Lethem is penning a Marvel comic, Omega the Unknown, due in 2006. "Marvel dared me to put my love on the line," says the author, who is reviving a little-known character from the '70s. Omega is "kind of a meta-superhero," he says, a "bewildered visitor to the Planet Earth" with--yes--a cape. Next we'd like to finally see that Philip Roth pop-up book...
...appropriate on Earth Day to reflect on the current state of our planet, to take stock of where we are, from whence we have come, and the challenges we face for the future. The score card is decidedly mixed...