#jablogday14

[jablogday]

May 23, 2014 - Jamaica Blog Day Posts

Dennis Jones (@dennisgjones): http://jamaicapoliticaleconomy.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/jamaica-blog-day-environment-vs-development-baha-mar-meet-jamaicas-logistics-hub/

Petchary (@petchary): http://petchary.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/environment-vs-development-having-your-cake-and-eating-it-too-for-jamaica-blog-day/

Kelly (@KellyKatharin): http://kellykatharin.blogspot.com/2014/05/negrils-7-mile-beach-here-today-gone.html

Marlene @BigFren): http://jablogday.tumblr.com/post/86591852599/jablogday-envvdev-offering-from-bigfren

T.H.I.N.K. Jamaica/Durie @MizDurie): http://www.thinkja.com/environment-v-development-take-a-breath-if-you-can-jablogday-envvdev/

Claudia (@cyopro): http://cyopro.blogspot.ca/2014/05/inside-mind-of-island.html

Helen Williams (@BillyElm): http://marogkingdom.blogspot.com/2014/05/environment-v-development.html

ZA[neta] (@zanii_zan): http://jablogday.tumblr.com/post/86632521634/in-search-of-greener-grass-a-call-for-environment-al

Anonymous: http://jablogday.tumblr.com/post/86632805094/lets-have-no-losers-in-environment-vs-development

CucumberJuice/Alice Clare (@cucumberjuice): http://cucumberjuice.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/environment-v-developmentand-the-loss-of-our-dignity/

rB (@riccaadoe): http://constructedthoughts.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/environment-vs-development-choose-investments-over-frogs-bird-fish/

d’Architect (@atechno): http://jablogday.tumblr.com/post/86813055344/thinking-acting-big-on-development-in-jamaica

This list will be updated as posts are submitted and curated on this blog.

[jablogday]

#JaBlogDay #EnvVDev @MizDurie chokes out a post about struggling to breathe while in Jamaica in December 2013.  Combining her personal breathing woes with data on the causes of air pollution, Durie highlights several important issues in this tension between the environment and development in Jamaica: fuel sources, agricultural practices, regulation, and changing habits.

[jablogday]

#JaBlogDay #EnvVDev offering from @BigFren showcasing the natural beauty of Jamaica.

[jablogday]

#JaBlogDay #EnvVDev post from @KellyKatharin offers a recent post about the beach in Negril.  Has the beach magically reappeared, reclaiming it's space? Is that erosion or mere "give and take"?

Also check out the blogger's earlier post about the same spot (http://kellykatharin.blogspot.com/2013/04/about-how-we-treat-jamaica.html), delving into her concern for how Jamaica -  the home that she loves and is in awe of - is treated.

[jablogday]

Environment vs Development: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too? For Jamaica Blog Day

#JaBlogDay #EnvVDev post from @Petchary about the "silliness" encountered over the many months since plans for the Goat Islands development slipped.  Petchary has long been covering this issue on her blog and for Jamaica Blog Day she focuses on the notion of "balance" between development and taking care of the environment.  She tackles the term 'sustainable development": what does it really mean, theory vs. practice.

[jablogday]

Jamaica blog day: Environment vs Development. Baha-mar meet Jamaica's logistics hub

#JABlogDay #EnvVDev post from @dennisgjones about a influencing the perspectives of Jamaicans not located close to the proposed Goat Islands development.(i.e., those outside of the KSAC, St. Catherine, and Clarendon areas)  In a post that compares that planned development to a completed development in the Bahamas (Baha-mar), Dennis suggests that how one views the Goat Islands discussion may be affected by one's actual proximity to the location: seeing the work and people working, being exposed to the consequences of the development such as the noise and grime, and seeing the results of the development.  

Dennis challenges those "wanting to raise the level of debate on the topic [to frame the discussion in a way to influence those not close to Goat Islands or the Portland Bight area because] Jamaicans need to see and hear convincing arguments about what the hub will mean for parishes outside Kingston, St. Andrew, St. Catherine, and Clarendon.