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Planeta.com Timeline
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In 2014-2015, join us for Planeta.com's 20th anniversary!

Origin Story
Developed in 1994 as a reporter's notebook, [|Planeta.com] pioneered online reporting focusing on practical [|ecotourism] around the globe. The [|award-winning] site provides free access to several thousand pages for travelers, researchers and policy-makers.

Planeta.com is geared toward independent travelers with various budgets. This crowd is seeking practical suggestions in the realm of eco-friendly, people-friendly and place-friendly travel. Our site also engages tourism and conservation professionals, including donors, media, academics and tour operators.

We started in february or march 1994 on a gopher site and migrated to a brand-new url in late 1995.

1994-1995 Greenbuilding I had returned from mexico and ecuador.

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Broad and Deep
The community Planeta.com serves is ridiculously broad and deep. The core group are eco-minded travelers and professionals. We have received kudos from policy-makers, back-packers, mom-and-pop hotels. With the launch of Planeta.com in 1994, the intent was to deepen understanding of linkages among tourism and conservation with a spotlight on sustainable practices. We aimed at creating an inclusive environment that could connect the dots and establish an innovative global dialogue.

Using the Web as a channel for online publication was an immediate success. For a niche topic, there was tremendous interest back in the early years 1994-1999. There were great advantages in using the Web for research and distribution. From the beginning we explored ways of using the site as a catalyst for dialogue online and in the natural world.

One of our early policies was to include links to websites elsewhere on the Web to reduce duplicity of information. That, however, led to a problem of dead links as many colleagues wandered away. Even websites focusing on 'sustainability' -- Communications for a Sustainable Future, IMAC and Eldis -- developed and discontinued their features that we linked. This emphasizes the point that developing continuity is not as easy as it looks! This is a challenge for those working toward sustainabile practices.

We've adopted social web channels for critical communication tools, incuding Flickr, Google+, Twitter and YouTube.

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Timeline
IYE || Quebec Ecuador Stanford, USA ||  || Greymouth, New Zealand New York, USA (webcam) ||  || Climate Food || Queenstown, New Zealand (web cam) Quito, Ecuador Monterrey, Mexico ||  || Cancun Belize || Astronomy Indigenous Climate Food Textiles || Belize ||  || Indigenous Climate Food || Germany ||  || Indigenous Climate Food ||  ||   || Indigenous Climate Food ||  ||   || Indigenous Climate Food ||  ||   ||
 * Year || Tech Innovation || Home || E-Conference || Presentations || Key Publications ||
 * 1994 || Gopher site/Web || Austin ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 1995 || Web || Austin ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 1996 ||  || Austin/Miami ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 1997 ||  || Miami ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 1998 ||  || Mexico City ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 1999 ||  || Mexico City ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 2000 ||  || Mexico City || North America ||   ||   ||
 * 2001 ||  || Mexico City/Oaxaca City || MET, IYE ||   ||   ||
 * 2002 ||  || Oaxaca City || IYE
 * 2003 || Flickr || Oaxaca City ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 2004 ||  || Oaxaca City ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 2005 ||  || Oaxaca City ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 2006 ||  || Oaxaca City ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 2007 ||  || Oaxaca City || Migration || Sydney, Australia
 * 2008 || YouTube || Oaxaca City || Indigenous
 * 2009 ||  || Oaxaca City
 * 2010 ||  ||   || Biodiversity
 * 2011 ||  ||   || Biodiversity
 * 2012 ||  ||   || Biodiversity
 * 2013 ||  ||   || Biodiversity
 * 2014 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 2015 ||  || Henderson ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 2016 ||  || Henderson ||   ||   ||   ||

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