Island Resources Foundation & Bruce Potter
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Bruce Potter
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Annapolis, Maryland, United States - Share
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- What is your Interest?
- Sustainable Development, Environment
- City (for Member Search):
- Tortola
- Country (for Member Search):
- British Virgin Islands, Caribbean
- Represent:
- Individual, Organization, Charity
- Name of Company / Organization:
- Island Resources Foundation
- What would you most like to get out of this network, for example in terms of learning or support?
- Would like to be able to use the network as an open source of information and advice on important issues of sustainable development and environmental protection for the global and Caribbean small island communities.
- What is your current job and/or what field are you studying?
- President and Coordinator of Environmental Information Activiites
- What knowledge, skills and experience do you have that you would be happy for people to contact you over?
- Moderation of e-groups; sustainable development of small islands; eco-tourism; biodiversity conservation; policy and legal issues for natural resource management and conservation on small islands, and tools for environmental information management for small island networks.
- What else would you like to say about yourself?
- I am an ex US Peace Corps Volunteer and staff member in the Latin America and Caribbean region; wife Kincey and I sailed and lived aboard our own boat in the Caribbean for three years; designed local sustainable development projects for international oil and gas producingt affiliates of Mobil Oil Company in the early 1980's; and I am a strong supporter of watershed protection and RiverKeeper programs in the Chesapeake Bay.
- Website Address
- http://www.irf.org/
Bruce Potter's Blog
Building Resorts on Offshore Cays
Article from the St. Thomas Source
CZM Approves Thatch Cay Development
by Pamela Reid Bussard
May 15, 2008 -- In a landmark decision Tuesday evening, the Coastal Zone Management Committee approved residential development for Thatch Cay.
The development will provide for slightly more than 100 dwelling units, and includes infrastructure for water, power, waste disposal and other utilities and amenities.
[Here's an aerial pict… Continue
Posted on May 16th, 2008 at 9:50pm —
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What I Saw on the Way to San Juan (from Tortola)
Thought this was a good picture of some basic coastal zone issues and conditions --
This is Isleta Marina on the little island, and Fajardo, in the east end of Puerto Rico.
Posted on May 13th, 2008 at 7:00am —
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