Here’s the link to Barbara Walker’s presentation made at the recent ECCO Magazine’s Green conference. The presentation was entitled “Reducing Carbon Emissions Through Sustainable Living” and focused on the procedures and management strategies implemented to make Hotel Mocking Bird Hill a “green” hotel. Barbara is the co-owner and manager of Hotel Mocking Bird

Video highlights from the Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp (more here) – fabulous production for Red Bull by New Caribbean Cinema (Storm Saulter, Nile Saulter & Michelle Serieux).

Producer and manager Jeremy Harding, songwriter and producer Mikey Bennett and producer Sawandi Simon shared two days of musical knowledge with twenty-five aspiring musicians and music industry practitioners at the Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp this past week.

On Saturday, April 16, Jakes Hotel will be hosting the 2011 Jakes’ Off-Road Triathlon in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth. The Jakes Off-Road Triathlon is an annual run, bike ride and swim race —  500 meter ocean swim, 25k mountain bike, and 7k country run. All proceeds benefit BREDS, the Treasure Beach Foundation,

A film charting the rise of Bob Marley and The Wailers to international stardom – made from footage shot in the early 1970s and lost for 30 years – is set to get its first public viewing. Read more at the BBC  

The BIG PICTURE Global Exchange by ILLITERATE Gallery in Denver, Colorado is a very cool project where photography meets street art on a global scale. Big Picture 2011 is an international photographic exchange where photographers from around the world submitted images to be blown up as large format prints and displayed

  Here’s a great story in the Observer about Rootz Underground’s new initiative to encourage persons to plant trees around the world. They are trying to have 100,000 trees planted in the next year. Lots more about Rootz Underground in our archives.  

The Department of Geography and Geology in association with the Jamaica Geographical Society presents a panel discussion on the progress of the the downtown Kingston Redevelopment Project. The panelists are,

The Green Your Business conference was held on Tuesday, March 22 at the Mona Visitors Lodge, UWI, presented by Shelly-Ann Dunkley and E.C.C.O Magazine, Jamaica’s leading eco-friendly lifestyle publication.  The theme of the conference was “Green Your Biz 2011: Creating ECO-nomic Solutions”. Unfortunately I didn’t get to hear all the

The Book Industry Association of Jamaica (BIAJ) is announcing the winners  in the Eleventh Biennial Publishing and Writing Awards at the Courtleigh Auditorium on Thursday, March 24 at 6:30pm. The BIAJ is also hosting a reading by local authors on Saturday, March 26 at the Spanish Court Hotel.