http://www.greenlivingproject.com Green Living Project Site Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:21:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Gibb's Farm is a responsible employer and community member, yet the efforts made in areas of environmental preservation and resource protection shouldn't be overlooked, as craftily shrouded as they may be. As one might imagine, access to services and supplies in this far-flung region have never been a cakewalk and ... http://www.greenlivingproject.com/gibb%e2%80%99s-farm-pt-iii-obviously-luxurious-rife-with-responsible-subterfuge/ A working farm that also operates as a high end guest lodge, Gibb's Farm stands apart from countless other traveler accommodations in its longstanding mutually beneficial relationship with the local community, Karatu. Generations of families have been a part of the Gibb's Farm workforce - most staff have worked at Gibb's ... http://www.greenlivingproject.com/gibb%e2%80%99s-farm-part-ii-good-neighbors-fantastic-food/ Established in 1929 near the village of Karatu, Tanzania, Gibb's Farm grew from a simple coffee farm into a generously appointed traveler's rest, a well-placed jumping off spot for adventurers and ultimately a decadent luxury travel destination that elevates and embraces environmentally and socially responsible practices in every level of ... http://www.greenlivingproject.com/gibb%e2%80%99s-farm-gracious-green-and-hospitable-to-all/ African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) was able to make a sweeping gain for migrating wildlife and local Maasai pastoralists with the establishment of the Tanzanian Land Conservation Trust at the 44,000 acre Manyara Ranch. The region of Burunge lies just south of Manyara Ranch - another region AWF identified as critical to ... http://www.greenlivingproject.com/burunge-wildlife-management-area-nine-villages-one-success-story/ The story of our visit to Tanzania with African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) cannot begin to be told without an unjustly short overview of the Maasai in this region. Among the most readily-recognized ethnic groups in Africa due to their distinct dress, fierce adherence to their traditional ways and residence adjacent to ... http://www.greenlivingproject.com/tanzania-awf-kids-cows-and-cultural-exchange-give-wildlife-a-hall-pass/ Truth be told, when we arrived in Rwanda, we hadn't even heard of Nyungwe National Park. Fortunately, thanks to a lead from the folks at Rwanda Tourism (ORTPN), we learned about the little-publicized but grand-scaled gem in southern Rwanda and knew that our trip wouldn't be complete ... http://www.greenlivingproject.com/nyungwe-national-park-ancient-rainforest-alive-with-primates-%e2%80%93-the-next-best-thing-to-time-travel/ Once a coffee cherry is harvested, the bean inside the cherry swiftly begins to degrade. Within 7 hours, fermentation substantially decreases the value of the farmer's crop, effectively melting it from premium product to c-list dregs as minutes pass. It's an agricultural version of "24" without the standoffs and screaming into ... http://www.greenlivingproject.com/rwanda-coffee-when-time-is-money-custom-coffee-cargo-bikes-are-a-farmer%e2%80%99s-best-friend/ In a world of large scale coffee production, coffee farming in Rwanda has always been a very personal endeavor. Introduced by the Germans in the 1900s, coffee in Rwanda is cultivated on small, family run farms where coffee plant counts average in the low hundreds, but for decades, the Rwandan coffee ... http://www.greenlivingproject.com/spread-rwanda-coffee-wakes-up-a-national-economy/ The following day, Francoise took us up into the mountains north of Kigali, to Stella in the community of Shyorongi, Matutina Secondary School, Walking the school property, practicality blended with beauty... rows of bright green cabbages, carefully crafted gravel pathways, prolific groves of banana trees, healthy cows... and students who were ... http://www.greenlivingproject.com/shyorongi-rwanda-environmental-education-off-the-grid/ We step out into a bright morning in Rwanda's capital city of Kigali to meet Francoise Kayigamba, national coordinator of the GEF Small Grants Program that focuses on community based projects, managed by the UNDP (United Nations Development Program). Francoise takes us to Nyakabanda, a low income suburb of Kigali ... http://www.greenlivingproject.com/kigali-rwanda-urban-sustainability-projects-101/