Dominica was featured on the PBS programme ‘Growing a Greener World’ last weekend.
The show was filmed in May 2011 as part of activities for Tourism Awareness Month.
The episode features organic farming, turtle watching, natural sites and attractions and hiking. Celebrity chef Nathan Lyon also visits the Roseau Market to purchase local herbs and fish to prepare grilled mahi mahi with ginger mango salsa.
This episode marks the first time that ‘Growing a Greener World’ was shot on location outside the US. The show focuses on gardening and sustainable living and healthy cooking.
PBS reaches more than 124 million people through television and more than 20 million people online each month.
This is the kind of publicity for my country I love to hear about and wish that like the negatives are picked out so quickly and highlighted-so too will the possitive such as this…if we are really patriotic Dominicans
lovely video indeed
Anytime the country is featured positively I’m always happy. Slowly, we are finding our place in the tourism world.
We need to further capitalise on this with greater emphasis on being bright green. Adding solar panels and L.E.D bulbs to street lights, to lower consumption and cost. Invest more aggrssively into recycling, which provides raw and finished goods, as well as employment. Bringing in international marketing specialist to help agro processors better market, package and ready our products for the international market for sale. Introduce more outdoor tourist and local activites like Zip Lining.
I’m so excited about Dominica’s sustainable future.
Great to see. Something good is happening in Dominica even amidst the negatives. I am happy to have been part of the piece. More kudos to Discover Dominica and all the effort that went into making this a reality
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great!! what about the truck loads of dirt, rocks, garbage, tires etc, etc that was dumped into the ocean in Massacre, do we call that enviromentally safe, come on.
Fantastic press for us. This is partly why I’m wary of fast food chains entering the island–I worry that, in a worst case scenario, people will come to prefer eating and even buying that highly processed food to our own organic grown foods. Although not all processed and/or fast food is unhealthy, it is unquestionable that the bigger chains we currently have in the island–KFC, Pizza Hut (Perky’s I will leave out for now, as its pizza does not seem as bad as Pizza Hut’s)–have many unhealthy options, many of which are actually made worse because you can order side dishes or soft drinks that simply increase the caloric, sugar, sodium, and fat (possibly even trans fat) content of one’s meals. It is possible to eat a “good” meal at KFC or Pizza Hut, but there are too many unhealthy options. The one saving grace at the moment is the relatively high price of this fast food. KFC I have always thought of more as an investment than a normal meal.
Of course, our own fast foods are potentially bad, particularly the very sweet sweets, as well, as with almost any fast food, but I still am more concerned about American products than local ones.
I had been concerned at one time that Save-a-Lot would bring in low-priced cheap food that would aggravate this issue of eating overly processed, not-the-most-healthy food. While I am still not impressed, in general, with what Save a Lot chooses to bring in (there are often healthier versions of their products available in the USA), its own ironically high prices–high, that is, as compared to what I thought they would be–will deter some from buying too much there.
Part of the great thing about organic food is that it is not only good for us, but for the environment, in the sense that we are not releasing dangerous chemicals, like CFCs, into the atmosphere. Of course, clearing too much land for farming is itself environmentally dangerous, as can be seen when farmers turn to slash-and-burn techniques in South America and elsewhere; and excessive clearing creates a long-term risk of desert-forming: desertification.
As James Lovelock says, there is evidence that our planet is a large system in which all its organisms’ normal actions help, at some level, to keep our environment functioning normally–that is, functioning in a way that continually promotes the possibility for life existing. This is only disrupted by significant events/external stimuli, like the meteor that led to the dinosaurs’ extinction and the Earth’s many ice ages (both of which make evolution necessary). Or, of course, by human actions. Our destruction of the environment is simply mind-boggling compared to the actions of all other animals on the planet.
Places like Dominica, at least in terms of natural, organic lifestyles, are among the last of a beneficial thing on our planet, and we must treasure the environment we live in, as well as what we choose to let into that environment.
I tell you of one other thing that will put paid to any environmental concerns: Overpopulation!
One of the first things we should determine if we want to maintain a healthy and green environment is the island’s carrying capacity. 289 sq miles is not a lot of land, especially when 40% of it is inhabitable.
perfect, but only one question though, is dominica two hundred and ninety square miles or three hundred and ninety square miles,answers anyone?.
29o… 287 to b more exact
i saw it on wikipedia it is two hundred ninety square miles,thanks folks.
289.5 SQ miles
Aye yow Dominica we LARGE! We definitely taking the world by storm. All we need is a few more internationally acclaimed programs and we set for life! This is definitelty a must-see.
BIG up to DNO for spreading the good news! Great job DNO!
There is a program i saw on BBC it is called world charllenge. I think we ned to try to partake in this
Sing the praises on Q95.
Go Dominica go, slowly but surely!!!
Am trying hard to hold back the joyful tears in my eyes this is so much of a great exposure for dominica the minister of forestry seems to be very intelligent even the farmer’s words was well spoken all i can say rite now is wow!!!!! to the ministers forget the past lets go forward together today.
Big cheers I just sat there with a big smile on my face,and with my heart bursting with pride and gladness,good expo but please do not allow them to come in and spoil it with promises hard to resist,we can do without the chemicals and polution,that’s all I’m saying!
The person there was not the Minister of Forestry. He is one of those “singing for their supper” at the Minister’s table.
@ observant thank u for your negative post u just missed the part where i say we go forward together.but we need people like u to push us to the top.