In The News Category

• Beach Club Resort Sustainability Project

  Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

  The Beach Club Resort, the newest luxury resort hotel in the Oceanside area, is pleased to invite the local community to join us on Earth Day, April 22 as we raise awareness about the environment by hosting the “Footprints Towards Sustainability Project”. The “Footprints Towards Sustainability Project” goals are to increase awareness with our guests [...]

  
  

• Earth Day at Parkside Victoria Resort & Spa

  Thursday, April 15th, 2010

  Everyone is invited to Parkside Victoria Resort & Spa’s first annual Earth Day Extravaganza! This is a community event open to everyone looking to celebrate the Earth, nature and sustainability in a fun, educational and festive setting. Invite your family, friends and neighbours! But before we get into the details… The challenge is on and [...]

  
  

• Tigh-Na-Mara Awarded 4 Green Key Rating

  Thursday, March 18th, 2010

  Parksville, BC – Tigh-Na-Mara Seaside Spa Resort & Conference Centre in Parksville, British Columbia, has been recognized on the national stage from the Hotel Association of Canada, becoming one of only 84 hotels in British Columbia to receive the prestigious “4 Green Key” Rating.

  
  

• Green Tourism at ITB

  Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

  In case you didn’t think experiential travel, green tourism, and eco-tourism were important and rapidly growing components to global tourism ITB, the world’s largest travel trade fair should change your mind. At this year’s convention, sustainable tourism played a large roll, the largest it ever has.

  
  

• Learn About Green Travellers

  Friday, February 26th, 2010

  As always, sound business practices mean backing up decisions with solid research. When looking to green up your business or to marketing the unique environmental initiatives you’ve already taken the same theory holds true. Unfortunately, at this stage with the whole green / eco-tourism thing still being relatively new (at least new to mainstream) it [...]

  
  

• Greening Vancouver Island

  Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

  The fabulous thing about Vancouver Island is the we have an abundance of green, blue, and even white. In other words, we have amazing old growth forests, beautiful lakes, rivers and the ocean, and we even have glaciers and some amazing skiing in the winter. But how do we do for “green” in the environmental [...]

  
  

• MapleLine goes online to go green

  Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

  MapleLine Magazine puts out an awesome full-colour glossy print publication (with news serving Sooke and beyond to the Greater Victoria area). But as we expand, we will not print more pages, we are spreading onto our website at www.maplelinemagazine.com and our blog! Also, our Fall 2009 issue (now in production – deadline June 30 for [...]

  
  

• Robson Bight Salvage

  Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

  The term “Mission Accomplished” has achieved such a tawdry reputation in recent times that one has to be hesitant about using it. However, occasionally it is appropriate, and well deserved. We are happy to report that such is the case for the Robson Bight salvage operation. By 3pm today, the tanker truck laden with 10,000 [...]