How can frequent travelers earn free stays at cool green hotels that aren’t with big chains? Enter the U.S.’s largest point-based loyalty program for indie lodging.
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North America
| Mendocino Green Wine | In northern California you’re never far from wine country. And while name brand-name mainstays like Napa and Sonoma seem to steal most of the attention, we tend to favor smaller, more remote appellations that offer quality vintages, artisan pleasures and a nice, slow pace of life. One of our favorites lies [...]
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| Bay Area Eco-Getaway | We’re overlooking a perfect crescent of sandy beach, watching the clam diggers harvest a chowder. In the protected harbor beyond, a vintage yacht with a rakish bowsprit gently bobs, while on the riprap break wall, anglers lazily cast crab snares and bait their hooks. Where are we, New England? Some [...]
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Wish a happy fifth birthday to the Big Solar of U.S. hotels, covering five acres and producing 10 million+ kW of electricity…
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Fairmont Pittsburgh, that city’s only LEED Gold-certified hotel, is named by the Fairmont chain as worldwide winner of its top environmental award…
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A highly successful, Scotland-based model for certifying sustainable tourism businesses is to be rolled out across Canada. GreenStep Solutions, based in Kelowna, British Columbia, is now the new face of Green Tourism Canada after forming an international partnership with
Green puzzle pieceGreen Tourism is now the biggest independent accreditation body of its kind in the world.
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| Green Wine Country in SoCal | Take a lazy drive along Rancho California Road, lined with vineyards, olive trees, and cypress, and you might, for a moment, imagine yourself in Tuscany rather than SoCal’s Temecula, an easy hour-or-so trip from San Diego, Orange County and Palm Springs. While the Temecula Valley doesn’t have the [...]
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| Getting A Green High | Whenever I exchange what-do-you-do’s at a party or social meet-and-greet, I’ve learned to anticipate THE SNIGGER. It comes right after I say I write about green travel. “And so you fly from place to place? How can you call that green?” It’s a fair question, despite the dreaded snigger. [...]
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Starwood is launching a new luxury “lifestyle eco-brand” called 1 Hotels & Residences, with three openings scheduled in the next 24 months. The new brand is conceived as the first ground-up, luxury eco-design and living hotel concept
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