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Re: Can they?

~drigo said Jun 29, 2006, 7:49 AM:

The real names of the islands are Small Tiger Island (Pulau Macan Kechil), and Bald Tiger Island (Pulau Macan Gundul).

As for United Adventures, our project on the island is to get people there as often as possible. Weekend adventures, corporate leadership seminars and workshops, entreprenuership courses, yoga retreats, honeymoons, family vacations, a location for video photography for movies / tv shows, etc… The point is bringing in revenue while keeping consistent with the eco-adventure principles… This particular island is a bit small for really building an eco village on it, but to sell time-share vacation cabins is a possibility.

As for creating successful eco-villages, I'm also a big believer in 'standing on the shoulders of giants' and not 'reinventing the wheel.'

I'm in the midst of preparations for another trip to the island this weekend, but next week I'd like to see if we can find some good information on so called best practices of setting up eco resorts and villages.

I really believe that we need more real, physical nodes of inspiration in addition to virtual ones… We need to harness the power of information technology - yes (this revolution still has so much potential) - but we also need to deal with basic things like mud, plants, eco-systems, building materials, etc…

We can learn virtually, and explore virtually … take an animated organic gardening course, or learn how to install environmentally friendly cooling systems for our homes… this would be great, but I'm feeling a real need and drive to 'get out there and do it.' Come back, learn a bit more, strategize a bit, and then go out there again and do it.

A mouse and some crabs have eaten 3 of my four tomato plants out there :~( so, I'll bring some more baby plants out and build a better barrier… perhaps I could have learned that on a virtual island gardening class, but the satisfaction of actually doing it is hard to beat :~)

peace & adventures,

~drigo

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Eco Villatge Manifestation

Bill said Jun 29, 2006, 10:39 PM:

Small Tiger Island, eh? That has a kind of poetry to it.

Have you settled on a brand name for your tour/resort business? It's probably on one of the illustrations or links you posted a while back, but if it is, it has slipped out of my memory and needs to be re-inforced.

Crabs got your tomatoes, eh? Here I put wire cages, about a foot in diameter and 16 inches tall, around my tomatoe plants, and leave that in place untill they get bigger and start producing more of their protective chemicals. I'd expect the biology to be more agressive there in the tropics, so it might be best to leave the cage in place permanently.

I agree that actually doing it is better than virtually doing it. It's just that actually doing it is much less likely here in cyberspace. I'm trying to figure out a way for more people to be involved with eco-villages, to get the idea flowing and growing in people's minds.

Are you planning on starting a dedicated website for your business and project - you know, a www.smalltigerisland.com type of thing, where you own the domain name, rent a bit of server space, and have your official website, the one you want prospective customers to see?

Re: Eco Villatge Manifestation

~drigo said Jul 2, 2006, 6:31 AM:

Our branding is “Incredible Vacation Experiences” and it's the header on the blog that I posted awhile back, which has pictures of the island and some of our other destinations too. I took some pictures of the solar panel and the little garden that the guys on the island made…. As for the garden, we're now thinking of hydroponics - but the challenge is again water.

To my surprise, I had a last minute booking for two for a trip to the islands while I was there with my group this weekend, and the husband is this Spanish guy who used to set up eco resorts around central America. So, with a small barter deal, I think I've found myself an additional consultant :~)

As for the virtual eco-village, I absolutely love the idea… but what would the experience be like? Would you log in, and then just click on different parts of the site to learn about eco-living? How do you envision it?

Actually, we do have a website for the island… it's decent but not near where I'd like it to be… you can view it at www.pulaumacan.com. We'll be re-doing that site soon.

I'll be posting more through the week, and hopefully some pictures too…

Re: Mind Body Spirit Village Manifestation

elansunstar said Jul 2, 2006, 4:54 PM:

Aloha
I am the world’s most published photographer and My specialty is travel and resort

i have sold more travel and resort and spa than any other photographer and you can use my stock of happy people in tropical areas for your website which would put it through the ceiling to say the least.

I also have been planning such a thing while living in Hawaii for 4 decades and have traveled and studied at many many healing and health resorts since 1970

I have doe extensive fasts and been a raw foodist for 40 years now and also have studied over 50 systems of healing and detoxification as well as hundreds of mind body spirit elements.

So i am quite interested in this here and in Thailand.

I can also offer the government there my services and imagery to increase travel in general in exchange for?

I have a friend with 10 square miles in Gaunaja in Honduras islands that could be a sequel. Etc.

Alternate energy is a passion of mine ….
Increasing the value would be a library of cds and dvds of mind body spirit and inspirational materials fro te world’s great’s
A friend wit yoga ashram in Sri lanka has a wall projector and shows dvds one night a a week to locals adn team and it is a hit.

I beleive you have the winner here as places like this are the next
Trillion $
Read Paul Pilzer’s
The Fountain of Wealth and The Next Trillion and see
Paul Pilzer.com

market analyst Everyoe wants this and they want to heal and they want to learn.

This template could develop into a chain. if done consciously!
I have lived extensively in the tropics and in Central and South america and Caribbean and Hawaii for the last 4 decades and can offer my services if it can help.

You could also fund it with a domain service like .tv and others now since .com and .org and .net are so full for domain names if you could work out local agreement

About 20 years ago the King of Malaysia brought me to Malaysia because he was a wind-surfer and wanted me to shoot there. and he brought me to see the Sultan of brunei who was the richest man in the world then.
I am a certified windsurfing instuctor internationally and have worked with dolphins since 1972 when I worked with John Lilly…Dolphins if there are any there are a great draw as is every aspect of mind body spirit (not JUST eco) tourism.

You ar on the spot with this
Dont ever give up on it. it IS the future of it all as long as it has library of media run on solar..and books as well.

My friend Dan Carlson (www.sonicbloom.com) waqs broght in to the Indonesian governement to work with the 25 ministers of agriculture there to increase agricultural yeilds with sonic boom They were so astondeded by the yeids that they praised him to high heaven and mad him a fixture of soorts. Somnic bloom produced one pumplkin in midwest US that was 1500 pounds and nutritive value through the sky!.

Also the research on growing amazing crops with sea-water is available and I can get you all the links for that so seawater is not an issue as big as you might think.

Immediately bring in as many coconuts to plant now as they take time to mature. I drink about 12 coconuts a day here in Hawaii Identical to Mother’s milk in composition exactly.

I have found the people there to be exceptionally warm hearted and caring.

Another friend is the top topical architect in hawaii and his buildings are built in Bali at tie and shipped here…the market for tropical structures is exploding exponentially and here real estate has quadrupled already (Hawaii)

Sun

www.sunstarphoto.com

www.sunstarphotography.com/

http://www.sunstarphotography.com/smilelinks/moresmilelinksendorsements.html

http://www.sunstarphotography.com/smilelinks.html

http://www.sunstarphotography.com/smilehome.html

http://www.sunstarphotos.com/

http://www.goldendolphinusa.com/

http://www.podcast-interactive.com/

http://sunstar.zaadz.com/

http://sunstar.zaadz.com/photos

http://www.hydrationformula.com/

http://www.watercure.com/

http://www.enlightenedbeings.com/

http://www.oefl.net/

Re: Mind Body Spirit Village Manifestation

Bill said Jul 2, 2006, 5:26 PM:

Hi Sun, nice and interesting post, with some great ideas and suggestions.

You worked with Lilly, eh? That's fantastic.

Re: Mind Body Spirit Village Manifestation

elansunstar said Jul 5, 2006, 8:36 PM:

Thank you Bill Hope i did nto over do it!!!!

Sun

Re: Mind Body Spirit Village Manifestation

Bill said Jul 6, 2006, 1:58 PM:

Well, Sun, you do throw a lot on the plate when you write, but it's all very on-topic, and knowing Rodrigo as I do, when he drops back in from his busy entreprenuerial schedule I'm sure he will be very pleased, and see a great affinity.

I don't thing the idea of selling domain names will work, because you have to be a country to do that, but a lot of your ideas sounded very interesting. It did make me wonder what the coconut and permaculture possibilities were on Rodrigo's site.

Re: Eco Village Manifestation

Bill said Jul 2, 2006, 5:30 PM:

It looked like you tried to post some pics, Rodrigo, but it didn't work. Is that right?

There's some kind of trick you have to use to post pics here - you upload the pic to your personal photos section, select the pic from it, cntrl-c to copy it, then cntrl-v to paste it into a pod post.

Re: Eco Villatge Manifestation

uncompromise said Jul 2, 2006, 5:35 PM:

hi drigo

just came across this - and your original post in zaadpreneurs [i think]

am interested in getting involved with this project

we are experts in LOHAS marketing and have considerable experience in bringing new projects to fruition - with or without capital for marketing investment

our largest client last year spent half a million, our smallest spent $500

so we can certainly come up with a solution that will work - even some sort of JV or contra would be considered

look forward to being in touch

cameron@nuovon

Re: Eco Villatge Manifestation

Bill said Jul 3, 2006, 6:00 PM:

Rodrigo, to answer the question about how a eco-village website for your site and project might work, here's what I would start out with:

The central core of the site would be a blog, a wordpress blog (free software, easy to learn). In the blog you would talk about the schedules and events happening at the site, and the blog creates a sense of “live” presence, thru which you can position yourself to answer emails and sell customers.

Writing the blog entries would be an ongoing task, but there are a few ways to make it easier to do.

Then, a photography section, organized to send the message that yours is an ecology vacation adventure. Lots of pics of flora and fauna and sights. maybe give the rights to the pics out for free, to children and educators. This helps get bookmarkers and helps keep the idea of your place in the minds of porential customers.

Then, a series of pages about ecology vacations, and eco villages - not too many to start, but enough to add an informational flavor to the site.

And finally, your closing pages, where you sell the tours, talk money, and give tour information.

That would be plenty to get started, enough content to attract some good links, enough to sell some tours, and maybe attract some investment.

Re: Eco Villatge Manifestation

Tru said Jul 5, 2006, 12:45 AM:

Sounds like things are going well for you with the eco village resorts. I’m very happy for you and this endeavor. I’d like to do a blog post on this.