DiCaprio Plans Eco-Friendly Island Resort

Let's not forget that making a healthy environment _fashionable_ is a key factor in raising everyone's consciousness - as acknowledged by your own tagline. Anyway, we're all animals too, so we shouldn't consider our presence inherently damaging or otherwise "unclean" as long as we can exist in a way that allows wildlife to continue to flourish. Though that is, of course, a loaded assumption.

from the site itself, "Blackadore Caye is an ideal location for a resort site, casino, fishing lodge, corporate retreat, or most any other development you desire." so if they were already selling the island with the intentions of developing on it, in my opinion, it is best that its and eco-friendly resort. i'll keep checking on this one because i would love to go there someday, it sounds like a relaxing and peaceful change of pace.

so he's raising everyone's consciousness with this eco-resort. cool. but, bottom line, where's the money it makes go? in his pockets? to support eco groups? what?

also, he's making that area a popular destination... and I can see other resorts popping up overnight. However, I don't see those resorts as being eco-friendly like his. Nope, just the same old thang...

So, Mr. DiCaprio is developing a wilderness island into an exclusive resort and it gets called eco-friendly? This is quite backward. Not to dismiss the attention he may have brought to the issue of ecological degradation, but this project merely reproduces the very eco-UNfreiendly economies of class exclusivity and development of the South by power in the North. Why can't he use his cultural and capiltal resources to, say, transform a decimated areas in his own neighborhood into eco-friendly places that are of value to everyone, wrather than just his rich friends?

Can I QA the resorts once they're finished? Just to make sure he hasn't missed anything important of course.

I think this is a positive thing, despite the fact that leaving it to be natural would be better.

Leo had quite a bit of experience re-terra forming sand dunes for his movie The Beach. Got quite a bit of media play as I recall. Locals were livid. Bulldozer pictures spoke louder than Leo's damage control teams. Sadly the beach used in the movie was later ravaged by the tsunami, once again reminding us how ephemeral saving the planet can be. Click here for more eco-info on our dear friend Leo:
http://www.remyc.com/leofolio.html
Though I don't come down so hard on Leo these days... he's young, he's making his way. He's OK.

As an avid canadian 'eco-tourist' (if there is such a thing these days), I am yet again torn between the thought of disrupting our natural environment, and not allowing enough people to experience the potential of a natural environment. I strongly believe that (besdies the obvious pros and cons) this innovative idea will mainly raise awareness to those who have not even considered a positive self-sustaining getaway. Thanks to all those who have done just the slightest in attempting to raise awareness!Now, as a fully qualified hospitality professional, how does one get involved in such a risky, yet rewarding project?