New Eco-Tourism

So eco-tourists can visit places like Xcaret or do any number of other eco-tourist travel activities in places all around the world but I read of an opportunity today that I think is a little more unique.

I read an article about how tours will begin to be offered to visit the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine beginning in 2011. This is something that is unique in that it deals with a number of environmental issues as well as telling the story of the disaster and the fallout from the nuclear accident that occurred in April 1986. The tours will enter the 30-mile exclusion area surrounding the plant on the visit, this highly contaminated area has been closed to everyone except workers at the plant since shortly after the accident when resettlement of survivors and those living in the area occurred. A picture of the sarcophagus covering the damaged reacrot is below.

Village Volunteers

This post has been a long time coming as I had reminded myself by sending an email but hadn't gotten back to the email for quite a while.

Village Volunteers is a non-profit orgnanization that works " in partnership with rural village and capacity-building programs to support the development of sustainable solutions for community survival, education, and growth."

That sounds like just the type of organization that can be shared here on Enviro-Sustain. they have operations in several countries on three continents, including Kenya, Ghana, India, Nepal and Belize. Here is more about the organization and what they do. They have a blog that you can follow to see what is happening from time to time.

EPA 40

The US Environmental Protection Agency turns 40 today. It was founded on December 2, 1970. Here is a link with more information about the history of the agency thus far.
There is a neat video montage on that site and here is a slideshow of images.