Sustainability: The Benefits of a Green Vacation Time: “Vacation of a vacation”: Time for a family relax agenda! Time to appreciate one’s surroundings should be the primary commitment Sustainability Support: Go to places where the priority is a sustainable nature conservation closely aligned with a tourism development that empowers the local community economically Emotional Meaning: It only increases the sense of belonging. Feeling being part of something very positive, becau

Reflections about Contentment: Who is poor and who is rich? Kupulangu, Mozambique 2018 What about the local kids with less material resources? They, too, can achieve happiness and knowledge! They enjoy the pure inspiration of happiness and contentment because they also can live in the moment, engaged and creative. While writing about “less is more,” the other day, a memory of a day at my friend’s beach house in Itacaré, Bahia came to mind. My Lorenzo was then about four years

Sustainability: The Curation of Consuming Obs.: Sustainability is an environmental theme that demands our attention. It is necessary to take actions for the health of our world and it is perhaps a way of finding more meaning in life, more satisfaction, and happiness as well. The Power of choosing “what” and “how” we consume: Shaping Our Lifestyles and Choices Although, it is my perennial personal commitment to tell my friends that regardless of many viable “green options,” fi

I only belatedly learned that the beauty of encountering a Natural Preserve Area, like the one I visited, arises in part because we do not run the show. The environment is unlike a zoo and we are tiptoeing on wilderness, honoring a territory as true guests with all the excitement in this world, driving for hours, bouncing on a Range Rover, lucky enough to suddenly face an elephant enjoying a tree shade with a little one. Blink, and then watch those stripes black and white van