The level of knowledge in the local community about environmentalism and eco-friendly policies is low but there are a number of resorts on Samui participating in local initiatives to educate locals in the benefits.

Here at The Passage Samui resort we started our own charity fund, which receives 1 USD for every guest night stayed at The Passage Samui, this charity has recently run projects with local schools educating children in ecologically sound actions like:

Recycling garbage
Energy Saving
Water saving and waste water treatment
Chemical management

We also sponsor regular beach clean up days and tree planting days.

Internally we separate our garbage to maximise the recycling potential. Our management also invested heavily in a water treatment system so no waste water goes to the sea.

You can learn more about our green initiatives and the Tossawoss Charity fund here:

http://www.thepassagesamui.com/charity.html

We would be delighted to welcome any of the Green Prophet team to see these initiatives first hand should they be visiting Koh Samui in the near future.

I am very glad to read your article about the zazen. I have been part of the team from 2006 to june 2010. I had the responsability of the launching of the green project at zazen in March 2009. The owners has the willing to preserve koh samui for the future generations. They gave me the green card to develop any projects that could contribute to the environment, we were participating as well in school project where we did teach the young one about the importance of recycling and other activities such as green gardens. There was other campaign in samui such as beach clean up, green garden, tourists awareness and green activities such as biking and hiking.

Glad to hear that the work we starts few years ago still as an impact on guests and the most important you value our work for a greener koh samui