| A Green Revolution | Come to Beirut. Come for more than 5,000 years of history—even more when you include the ancient city of Byblos (an area known today as Jubayl), home to the seafaring Phoenicians and perhaps the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. Come for the more recent French colonial heritage, impressive [...]
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| Grants Pass to Ashland | Our journey continues. In our modern-day covered wagon—our new hybrid vehicle—we have been on the trail of charming towns, fascinating locals, natural beauty and a palpable eco-conscious ethic in Southern Oregon. As we made our way up the craggy coast from the state border, then east to Grants Pass, [...]
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| Traverse City Eco | Before Hemingway became obsessed with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing, Michigan’s Little Traverse Bay region inspired his youthful imagination. In the woods beyond the family cottage and the opulent resort hotels, he eyed wildlife, gun in hand, and cast his line in crystal-clear streams and lakes, often making friends [...]
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| Healthy, Organic Nepal | I won’t go into all the reasons that seeking out organic food while traveling—and even paying a premium for it—is totally worth it. But here are three. Reason #1: your body’s natural defenses are already on high alert, overburdened with the inevitable stresses and assaults that come with foreign territory—so [...]
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| Mexico’s Greenest City? | We are frankly amazed. It quickly dawns on us that, arguably, San Miguel de Allende could be the greenest city in all Mexico. On a per capita basis, this achingly lovely, authentically historic place (population 130 thousand) eclipses even the cosmopolitan capitol of Mexico City, whose huge heartbeat nourishes many [...]
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| Organic in Mongolia | Winter is long , cold and windy in Mongolia. And so the Mongolian diet, especially in the rural countryside, relies almost exclusively on meat (cow, lamb, yak, horse). Not a happy place for vegetarians or … gasp …. vegans! In every ger (yurt), so many deep-fried versions of piroshki filled with makh [...]
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| Greening in PV | It’s mango mania around Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico’s central Pacific coast. Everywhere—mangoes, mangoes, mangoes. Awash in mangoes. Un problema fantastico! In the early mornings where we’re staying, first I skim a flotilla of delicate coconut palm flowers floating in the pool, and scoop out chlorinated land crabs big as salad plates, up to [...]
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| Lake Chapala Paraíso | The air in early June is brittle, hot and dusty, but the shrill serenade of the rainbirds heralds the change that’s to come. Rainbirds are not birds at all, actually, but the local name for thousands of huge cicada-like insects that faithfully appear each year at this time, brilliant green to satisfy the Mexican love of [...]
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| Greening in Conch-a-ritaville | It had been a while. Been years, in fact, since last we ventured as far south as you can go in these United States. To the the capital of the Conch Republic, Key West. And it is with no small measure of relief and pleasure that we can report the [...]
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| We Dive In | Who doesn’t love the Florida Keys? Sure, and that’s the problem. This chain of some 1,700 islands is so appealing in so many ways that, if we’re not careful, we might just lose the very things that lure us to the most accessible tropical paradise of the Caribbean Basin. Consider: [...]
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