Eco Cuba Exchange (part of the parent organization, Global Exchange, is a United Nations-recognized NGO) promotes environmental interchange between U.S. and Cuban environmental communities—professional and grassroots. It is offering a number of Cuba research tours for this fall. Some of the upcoming tours are below with their corresponding links:

Marine and Coastal Sciences and Management: Congress and Research Tour, October 23 – November 1, 2009 http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/1006.html

Wetlands Symposium in Ciénaga de Zapata (the Caribbean’s largest Wetlands), November 1 – 8, 2009 http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/1008.html

Sustainable Agriculture and Urban Gardens, November 7 – 17, 2009 http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/988.html

Sustainable Cuba: How Cuba Meets its Food, Medicine, Shelter and Energy Needs While Protecting its Environment, December 27, 2009 – January 5, 2010 http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/cuba/sustainablecubatours.html

Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development, December 27, 2009 – January 5, 2010 http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/1043.html

Natural, Complementary and Preventive Health Care, December 27, 2009 – January 5, 2010 http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/1010.html

Sustainable Architecture and Urban Development, December 27, 2009 – January 5, 2010 http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/992.html

Community Development and Humanitarian Aid, December 27, 2009 – January 5, 2010 http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/1063.html

Cuba Solar 2010: Renewable Energy Conference and Research Tour, April 2 -11, 2010 http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/1009.html

More tours on all these themes will be organized during 2010 and 2011. Eco Cuba Exchange also designs customized tours for particular groups and institutions. Global Exchange has organized research and humanitarian delegations to Cuba for over twenty years. [Global Exchange Reality Tours is a licensed, Cuba Travel Service provider that connects people to issues, movements, and social change in over thirty countries throughout the world.]

For more information, you may contact Pam Montanaro (Eco Cuba Exchange) at 510-649-1052, pamela@barglow.com, or see http://www.ecocubaexchange.org.