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January 1999

g Weaving the web conversation with Chris French: Ecotourism by a Mountain Lake - Ron Mader
g Latin American Ecotourism - What is it? - Ron Mader
g La enseñanza del Español en Ecuador en los ultimos años - Diego Pesánte
B Saving A Coral Reef in Baja - E magazine
B New Tomb Found At Teotihuacán - Angela Schuster/Archaeology

February 1999

g Report from Ecuador - Peter Berg
g Choosing a Language School - Robert Levy
B ASU explores under Mexican pyramid: Could pyramid be a grave marker of the kings? - Chris Kahn/The Arizona Republic
B International Expeditions: Digging in Argentina - Timothy Leland/Boston Globe

March 1999

g Machu Picchu: Consecration or Desecration - Carol Cumes
g San Luis Potosi Hosts Adventure Tourism Congress - Ron Mader
g Tales from the Yucatan: Puerto Morelos: Straddling Two Worlds - Jeanine Kitchel
g Environmental Groups formally accuse Exportadora de Sal, S.A. (ESSA) of Environmental Criminal Violations at its Guerrero Negro Saltworks - Mark Spalding
g John Noble: Scouting out Mexico's Landscape - Ron Mader
g Belize Guidebooks - reviewed by Ron Mader
g Mexico Guidebooks - reviewed by Ron Mader
g Pura Vida: The Good Life in Costa Rica - Bruce Conord
g Doug Tompkins' Pumalin Park (Chile) - Dominic Hamilton
g Gringo Madness: Opening A Bookstore In Mexico - Jeanine Kitchel and Paul Zappella
B Conscious Choice - Ecotravel Issue
B Die-off of Sea Turtles (Mexico) - NRDC
B Letters at 3AM: Before a Key's Been Struck (Computers and Being Human) - Michael Ventura/Austin Chronicle
B Indigenous Groups versus Big Oil - Living on Earth
B Plants and Population: From prehispanic to future conservation alternatives: Lessons from Mexico - Arturo Gomez-Pompa and Andrea Kaus/NAS Colloquium
B Birds of the Manu Biosphere Reserve - Barry Walker/GORP
B Hieroglyphs and History at Copan - David Stuart/Peabody Museum
B Saving the Maya Past for the Future/Peabody Museum
B Betting on the Ecotourism Craze...And on Adventure Travel, Too - Elisabeth Malkin/Business Week
B Saving the Maya Past for the Future - Barbara Fash/Peabody Museum

April 1999

g Planeta.com Wins "Lente de Plata" award from Mexico's Tourism Secretariat
g 04/15 Ecotourism Meeting in Mexico City - Ron Mader
g Visit to Venezuela - Greg Green
g Renewal of Life in Guatemala - Susan Hoffman
g Real Audio in Latin America - Greg Green
B Meet the godfather of ecotourism: Michael Kaye of Costa Rica Expeditions comes clean on truly 'green' - Richard Bangs/MSNBC
B Mexico's Museums and Virtual Galleries - Ron Mader/Business Mexico

ised Field Agriculture: Applied Archaeology in the Bolivian Amazon

May 1999

g Rockin' The Volcano in Ecuador - Robert Greening
g Biodiversity Implications of Growing Coffee in the Sierra de Manantlan's Biosphere Reserve - Santiago Lobeira
g Can Communities Take The Lead In Developing Mexico's Eco Travel? - Juan Carlos Ibarra
g Mexico's Ejido San Nicolas Totolapan - A Millenium Review - Antonio "Febo" Suárez
g Nicaragua's Casita Volcano: The Inevitability of a Natural Disaster - Tom Fletcher
g Sustainable Regional Development in Hualulco, Oaxaca - David Barkin and Carlos Pailles
g La Observacion de Aves en Celestún - David Bacab
g Parque Nacional Cusuco - Suyapa Dominguez Merlo
g Chapala se muere... ¿a alguien le importa? - Laura Castro-Golarte
g Brief Eco History of Belize and Northern Guatemala - Les Beletsky
g Belize and Northern Guatemala: Environmental Threats and Conservation - Les Beletsky
g Mike Nelson: Driving in Mexico - Ron Mader
g Toasting Tequila: Tours, Books and the Mexico City Connection - Ron Mader
g Homage to a Road - Michael Ventura/Austin Chronicle

June 1999

g New Resource Page - Green Building in Latin America
g Carla and Herb Felsted: Journeying Online Mexico - Ron Mader
g Ecotourism and Spirituality in Mexico - Ron Mader
g A Guide for Eco Travel - Beatrice Briggs
B Making Polluters Pay - E magazine
B Certification, accreditation & rating of tourism offers sustainability in Dominican Republic and Haiti - Yacine Khelladi
B Lone Rangers: Internet News - Weeklywire.com
B Ecotourism's Social Impacts - Eddie Dry/NAMI News
B Culture Clash - Paul Kvinta/Outside
B Workshop to Lay Plans for Eco-Tourism in North America (Playa del Carmen, Mexico, 27-28 May 1999) - CEC
B Composting Toilets in Puerto Morelos, Mexico - Solutions Site

July 1999

g Exploring the Copper Canyon/Barrancas del Cobre
g Ecoturismo en San Luis Potosi - Ricardo del Blanco
g Coffee that Eases the Conscience - David Bray
g "The Lost World of Quintana Roo" - Jeanine Kitchel
g Ecoturismo comunitario en la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca - Jorge Favela Fierro
g Mexico Hosts First National Ecotourism/Adventure Tourism Congress
g Community-Based Ecotourism In The Panama Canal Watershed: Executive Summary - Tara Lumpkin
g Agua para el maúana - Marlene Ehrenberg
g New Book Reviews - Ron Mader
g New Ecotourism Books - Ron Mader
g Sierra Madre Alliance Program Overview - Randall Gingrich
g Visiting Laguna Miramar, Chiapas - John Noble
g Baúos Ecologicos in Baja California - Carol Steinfeld
g Experiencias en la Laguna Desertica - Lilia Childs
g Sierra del Chichinautzin - Oscar Navarro Cortes
g Don't Miss Roatan, Honduras - Brian Blackwell
g Turtle Nesting in Tortuguero National Park (Costa Rica) - Mary Beth Balliett
B Taking Street Vendors Off The Street: Historical Parallels In Mexico City - John C. Cross/Informal Cyberspace
B One Guatemalan's Fight Against Slash-and-Burn Farming - Megan Epler Wood/E Magazine
B ISA campaigns to save the Xingu River water springs - Instituto Socioambiental
B Two Faces of Tourism - Jonathan Tourtellot/National Geographic Traveler
B Corporate Watch - The US/Mexico Border

 

August 1999

g Adventure in a Desert Ghost Town - Ron Mader
g Joe Cummings: The Texas-Mexico-Asian Connection
g Visiting El Cielo (Updated!) - Scott Walker
g Una ventana para el ecoturismo en Campeche - Margarita Rosa Rosado
g Review of "The Tourist"
B The Next Industrial Revolution - William McDonough and Michael Braungart/Atlantic Monthly
B Natural Capitalism - Paul Hawken/Mother Jones
B Love and Death and the Leviathan's Lair - Bruce Barcott/Outside

September 1999

g Mexico City Ecotourism Roundtable/Workshop
g Potencial del Ecoturismo en Campamentos Tortugueros de Mexico - Angel Nieva
g Taller Tarahumara/AMTAVE - Marlene Ehrenberg
g Propuesta Amtave Para Llevar A Veracruz A La Vanguardia Del Turismo Alternativo, Ecologico Y De Aventura A Nivel Mundial - Marlene Ehrenberg
g Co-mision Jalcomulco/AMTAVE - Marlene Ehrenberg
B Upate - Sprawlwatch.org
B The Dunes of Samalayuca - Jim Conrad/Earthfoot
B International Efforts to Save the Swainson's Hawk in Argentina - Scott Weidensaul/GORP
B Costa Rica promociona turismo ecologico en con nuevo sitio en Internet - Nacion
B Heroes and Champions: Recognition and Thanks - Frederick W. Stoss/Electronic Green Journal
B Environmental Resources on the Web - Flora Shrode/Electronic Green Journal
B The Use of the Internet as a Source for Environmental History - Lise F. Sedrez /Electronic Green Journal

October 1999

g Birding Two Diverse Rain Forests in Costa Rica - Pamela Conley
g The Not-For-Profit EarthFoot Concept - Jim Conrad
g Driving in Mexico - Ron Mader
g Balam Consultores (Mexico)
g Manual para la planeacion de un turismo responsable en areas naturales comunales y ejidales - Balam Consultores
g Directorio/Directory - Ecuadoran Ecotourism Assocation
B Natural Mexico: Three eco travel picks that add up to real adventure - Ron Mader
B Water in Cities: An Artificial Divide - Arid Lands Newsletter

November 1999

g Mexico City Ecotourism Roundtable
g Copper Canyon: A Travel Agent's Perspective - Elizabeth Malek-Zadeh
g International Galapagos Tour Operators Association - Carol Chapman
g What is Open Space Technology? - Ron Mader
g Bahia de Caraquez, Ecuador Revisited - Peter Berg
b Ecotourism: Travel of the Future? - ABC News
b Virtual Community - Howard Rheingold/Whole Earth Review
b Gulf of Mexico Bioregion - Peter Warshall/Whole Earth Review
b World Without End, Amen - Tim Cahill/Outside
b Mexico City's Divining Rod - Odile Henault/Architecture Magazine

December 1999

g Globalization, Tourism and Indigneous Peoples - Rethinking Tourism Project
g Certifying Organic Coffee in Guatemala - Lisa Maldonado
g What West Virginia can learn from ecotourism in the Americas - Ron Mader
g Museo de Historia Natural de la Ciudad de Mexico - Marco Barrera Bassols
g Mexico City's Museum of Natural History - Marco Barrera Bassols
g Greening hotels and restaurants
g Where to find the Birds in Celestún - David Bacab
g Legislative Efforts in Brazil to Regulate Access to Genetic Resources - Jordan Erdos
g Plant Life and the Maya - Jordan Erdos
g Quinoa: Mother Grain of the Incas - Jordan Erdos
b Seattle Showdown - Larry Weiss/Connection to the Americas

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