It has the thrill of being somewhere that seems to have miraculously escaped the 21st-century depredations of mass tourism, deforestation, and uncontrolled development.
, a sustainable-tourism company whose engagement with Principe is a fine example of walking the walk and talking the talk.Thereby hangs quite a tale. One day in July 2009 there arrived on the island a young man from South Africa. Mark Shuttleworth was then a tech geek who had founded Thawte, an internet consulting firm, in 1999.
With Vander as my guide, I roamed the island. Much of what I saw, heard and tasted bore the hallmarks of Shuttleworth’s philanthropic master-plan. One morning I went to check out a cooperative enterprise where seven women make vibrantly colored African jewelry from glass which they themselves recycle, pounding the bottles to a fine powder and firing the baubles in basic wood-fueled kilns.
Needing to know more about HBD’s take on sustainability in general I called Emma Tuzinkiewicz, the young American bringing urgency and passion to a job title which these days all too often smacks of green-washing.plum, Tuzinkiewicz talked me through the bewildering variety of HBD’s initiatives on the island, which include training programs and craft workshops, recycling schemes and sponsored litter clean-ups.
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