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Sip and sleep green at Temecula’s Ponte Family Estate and Ponte Vineyard Inn

6 March 13 · 0 comments

| 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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Palm Springs, Calif.: this retro resort town looks marvelous in green

29 January 13 · 1 comment

| A New Era Dawns | Palm Springs, someone says. What comes to mind? All that Rat Pack and Old Hollywood history, of course … Jetsons-like interior design … an outdoor-indoor lifestyle that takes advantage of 330+ days of sunshine …  and architecture spanning Spanish colonial to Fifties minimalist modern. There’s the Walk of Stars [...]

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Calif.’s Coachella Valley: 1st Green Seal resort

29 August 11 · 0 comments

It took three years, but Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa in Rancho Mirage, Calif., has earned Green Seal certification at the Bronze level. The hotel is the only Green Seal-certified hotel in the popular desert destination of Coachella Valley, which includes nearby Palm Springs.

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