Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Sustainable Development in Practice

I was at the Golden Palm Trees Resort of Sepang Gold Coast attending a wedding dinner last December. This is the first time i went there after hearing so much about the Dubai-alike resort in which villas are built over the sea water. Villas are linked with concrete walkways from the beach front onto the sea side. It is a plesant 5 minutes walk from the reception building to the individual villas which are clustered around the central podium building housed the swimming pool and cafe. Swimming in the pool surrounded by the sea water can be a good experience, I guess. It must be one of the attraction for many visitors coming over for a weekend retreat. The resort is promoting green consumption in which notices reminding the guests of caring about environment can be seen in the villas and common public area. This is rightly so as a clean and green environment is why people come over to the resort.

This, definitely vindicates the balance between and co-exist of environment and economy, 2 important but some how rather difficult to get along dimension of development.

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