Go Green!

Two suggestions for heaps of family eco-fun this winter!

1. Christmas in Rosia Montana, Romania

A cause celebre for the green lobby, the poverty-stricken town of Rosia Montana in Romania’s Apuseni Mountains is the perfect destination for the environment-conscious traveler. Since an NGO made up of foreign do-gooders managed to delay the construction of a gold mine that would have regenerated the entire region, creating jobs for thousands and hope for many more, Rosia Montana will remain for the foreseeable future one of the most eco-friendly towns in the world. Most homes to do not have proper plumbing, meaning that ‘eco-toilets’ have to be used. The kids will just love having to trot down to the bottom of the garden in sub-zero temperatures to take a pee! Get them fit as they help push horses and carts out of the mud!



2. Tirana, Albania

Mismanagement of, and underinvestment in Albania’s electricity grid has left many of the country’s cities crippled by daily power cuts. What better way for the environmentally friendly traveler to show his concern for the planet than spending his holiday with an ordinary Albanian family, in the dark in an unlit, unheated apartment! Walk up 11 flights of stairs and enjoy the view over... nothing...

Mine Your Own Business Opens in Washington

This ground-breaking documentary - about how the international environmental lobby is attempting to ensure the continued poverty of Romanians in the former mining village of Rosia Montana - premiered today in Washington D.C. Watch the trailer here:

Uncomfortable as the film is, the neo-communist environmental lobby have tried to ban it in Romania, by threatening cinemas that show it: how ironic that it should be today, on what would have been Nicolae Ceausescu's 89th birthday, that Romanians are once again being told what they can and cannot watch.

More here and here.