What's Happening:The Greenest Economy is what Barbados Wants

Many stakeholders within the local economy have recently signed onto the ultimate goal of establishing Barbados as the greenest economy in the Caribbean and Latin America! Andy Armstrong, President of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry, talks about looking at a more multifaceted approach if Barbados truly wants to implement a sustainable green economy.

Like anyone will tell you in many aspects of life, diversity is key to success; and this stands true for sustainability. Barbados cannot just depend on one renewable energy source - IE the sun - but rather it needs to take a more versatile approach. There has been a great look into wide-scale wind technology and under current consideration is the development of an off shore floating wind platform in Barbados which has caught the eye of European countries such as Norway.  

Although all of this sounds wonderful and we at Loop Barbados are 120% fully supportive, our only question/concern is why have the more basic and obvious methods of sustainably such as reducing, reusing and recycling not been mentioned more highly in the discussion of sustainability. Why has only large scale renewable energy plans been readily broadcasted when smaller scale projects like reducing wastage rarely talked about? Is it not as important? Does it seem that we are taking step 4 before step 1? What do you think?

Melanie & Kimberly*