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Roads Less Traveled Blog
by Tracy L. Barnett
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Greening the barrios in Mexico City
Saving your garbage is a tough sell in a place where gardening is seen as peasant labor. But that doesn?t stop Dulce María Vega from rolling up her sleeves, going door-to-door and recruiting her neighbors for a grand mission. Dulce is the friendly face of sustainability in her neighborhood. With more than 30,000 residents, Lomas [...]
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Journeys with a cause
Many of you know I am currently in the process of gearing up for a year-long journey with a mission: to raise the visibility of the unsung heroes of Latin America’s environmental movement. In the process I hope to build a well of creative ideas and inspiration through the new web portal I’m designing, a [...]
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A leap of faith in Guadalajara
Luis Medina must be one of the happiest men alive. ?This is my office,? he says with a broad smile and a sweep of his arm toward the mirror-like pool in front of him, the basalt formations all around and the forest beyond. We?re in a place he?s dubbed ?Naturaleza Mistica? or ?Mystical Nature,? where water [...]
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Mexico City Ecological Park: A wilderness restored
Dahlias were first cultivated here by the Aztecs. This could be any other forest on the outskirts of any other city, I think to myself as the path curves through a grassy field, past a burst of orange sunflowers and into the shade of a mossy oak grove. Then Guadalupe stops and gestures for us to [...]
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King Arthur, Dame Agatha come alive in Cornwall and Devon
Names like Tintagel, Torquay and Dartmoor are more foreign to most Americans than Timbuktu. But traveling through bucolic Devon and Cornwall, with their mysterious moors, traditional cream teas and spectacular coasts, one quickly learns that this region’s history is intimately connected to our own. In Dartmouth, the charming medieval port city that gave its name to [...]
