ECOLOGY and CULTURENewsletter 10

Septembre 2011

"...Si tout va bien, Aralsk redeviendra un port en 2011 ".

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Lights off at Earth Hour and ‘spot’ on Marriott’s Environmental Month

Go Green Package at the Renaissance Amsterdam Hotel

Amsterdam, 31 March 2011 – With Earth Hour as an annual international event, the Renaissance Amsterdam Hotel kicked-off to Environmental Awa-reness Month. Each year in April, Mar-riott celebrates «Environmental Month» to communicate the company’s com-mitment to environmentally respon-sible operations, raise awareness of environmental issues, and involve as-sociates in green activities. This year, associates of the Renaissance Ams-terdam Hotel will roll up their sleeves to help the community with a couple of environmental initiatives and events in and around the hotel.

Earth Hour

On March 26, 2011, the Renaissance Amsterdam Hotel celebrated Earth Hour by turning off non-essential li-ghts in the hotel for one hour. During Earth Hour guests were given a ‘green cocktail’ in the candle-lighted 2b lounge bar.

Go Green package

In 2009, the Renaissance Amsterdam Hotel obtained the golden Green Key certificate, the highest category of this worldwide eco-label. The Renaissance Amsterdam Hotel makes it a point to stay a green hotel. Meeting and event planners will have the chance to bookspecial Green Meetings in one of the 11 eco-friendly meeting rooms.Because April is “Environmental Awa-reness Month” the Renaissance Ams-terdam Hotel offers a ‘going green’ group package.

So be green with the Renaissance Amsterdam Hotel and receive 25% dis-count on the Full Daily Delegate Rate. The first booker will be rewarded with a sponsored day at the park accompa-nied with ECO Friendly Scooters and a delicious picnic basket for two! For information or bookings: + (31)020 551 2060, eventbookingcentre.amsterdam@marriott.com

or www.renaissanceamsterdamhotel.com.

International Year of Forests

This year, Marriott International joins communities around the world in sup-port of the ‘International Year of Fo-rests’ campaign, a global platform to celebrate people’s action to sustaina-bly manage the world’s forests. The United Nations General Assem-bly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests to raise awareness on sustainable management, conserva-tion and sustainable development of all types of forests. In a bold move to help improve the climate, Marriott Inter-national also focuses on protecting 1.4 million acres of endangered rainforest in the Amazon, an area called the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve.www.marriott.com/corporate-social-responsibi-lity/corporate-environmental-responsibility.mi

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Singapore - the island of dreams.

In the minds of many of the magic word is surrounded by the romantic aura of Singapore tropical paradise: palm trees and sandy beaches, roaring ocean, blue sky and lush vege-tation. Although this is unlikely many will be able to answer the question, what is Singa-pore - a city or island state? It turns out that the one and the second and the third In fact, no raging ocean in Singapore is not in sight. On the one hand, this island, as well as the adjoining another 63 tiny islands, located between Malaysia and Indonesia, washes the South China Sea, on the other - the Strait of Malacca linking the Indian and Pacific Oceans.4

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And despite the fact that Sin-gapore is one of the twen-ty smallest countries in the world.

The old are inexplicably adja-cent to the new - it’s hard to understand where it ends and begins skyscrapers classic Chinatown or Little India, less real.

How could this happen meta-morphosis? After all, even what some 200 years ago the-se places were the most com-mon tiny island almost enti-rely covered with impenetrable jungle, literally teeming with tigers. By the way, these pre-dators were a major problem for the British during the de-velopment of this area. Fero-cious animals, of course, it is not like the fact that the inva-sion of their rights in their fa-miliar surroundings, and they ate about 300 workers invol-ved in cutting down the jun-gle. And since in those days on the outskirts of the Malay world of labor was abundant, tigers were finally defeated. Although the history of Singa-pore began not with the moment when the British appeared on the island, and to goraz befo-re. However, its early fog and uncertainty.

The first information on this site belong to the II centu-ry. Even then, there came the fishermen, to fully appreciate the implications of the loca-tion of the island.In the VII century, Temasek, or Sea city, was known as a major port on the outskirts of the Malaysian Buddhist empire. The modern name ‘Singapore’ is associated with an ancient legend of the XVII century Ma-lay Chronicle shows that in 1299 the ruler of Palembang Sri Buana Three found on the island of great trading city.

6Wrong and who expects to see there is greenery and dazz-ling natural beauty. Of course, Singapore - it’s not only the big-gest port, but also the largest in Southeast Asia, an industrial center with an unusually high

even in comparison with Europe, the standard of living. And on the immediate environment - In-donesia, Malaysia or the Philip-pines, not even worth talking - nothing. The only thing that

perhaps can be compared to Sin-gapore - this is Hong Kong, but with a very large Shimi reserva-tions. Although in both cases to

the creation of civilized tech-nocratic oases in Asia a hand

in English. True, if they were in Hong Kong before the end of the XX century, Singapore was left in the middle. This means that the construction of a mo-dern prosperous society - the

whole merit of local residents. At the same time Hong Kong was

purely Chinese, but in Singa-pore, despite the predominance of the same Chinese who turned out fantastic international and

cosmopolitan city.And despite the fact that Sin-gapore is one of the twen-ty smallest countries in the world.

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After landing on the shore, he met a huge lion, and although the lions in these parts, either befo-re or after no one saw a crea-ture, which the governor said, was red with a black bare howl, he decided that it was a lion. So in the future for the city stuck the name of Singapore, which in Sanskrit means ‘Lion City’. In what Singapore has repeatedly served as a bone of contention in relations between the neighbo-ring countries, he often passed from hand to hand. In the middle of the XIV century, Singapore has repeatedly attacked: in the south - on the part of Majapahit

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