Concordia Eco-Resort, St John, Virgin Islands
Sustainability is not an accomplished science, rather a self-informing, self-correcting exploration of best practices. Though Stanley Selengut, the developer and sole proprietor of Concordia Eco-Resort, has been named the “Father of Sustainable Resort Development” and credited as the originator of the term “Eco-Tourism,” he will tell you himself that he never set out to “invent a concept.” After decades, working as a New York real estate developer and having been introduced to St John and the treasure that is the Virgin Islands National Park, Stanley had the idea that it must be possible to develop a resort property in such a way that the product would minimize its own impact on the delicate ...
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