| 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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| Beach House Biodynamic | Spring rains have only recently paused on the morning we veer westward, leaving Highway 101 and heading into the feminine undulations of the Central Coast of California. Suddenly it’s vineyards, ranches and roller-coaster hills of a green so vivid against a sky so boldly blue it makes us positively giddy. [...]
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| Green Travel News | SFO’s new T2, home base of operations for Virgin America, aims to become the first LEED Gold-certified terminal in the country—and one of the most sustainable airport terminals in the world. The new terminal includes Slow Food vendors that serve local and sustainably-sourced cuisine. Inspired by San Francisco‘s historic Ferry [...]
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| Sonoma’s Slow Pleasures | There are many reasons to visit the town of Sonoma. Wine tops most lists, of course, as this is iconic California Wine Country, if more down-home than nearby Napa Valley. History lives on here, at Sonoma State Historic Park and Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma on Sonoma Plaza, the [...]
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| Greening in Paradise | Want a Big Island paradise of green? Lush and tranquil? A place to feel Hawaii’s peaceful spirit? Go to the Hamakua Coast. It begins north of Hilo, on the island’s east side, lazing northward through tangly jungle, fruitful farm and ranch lands, past sleepy towns to mythic Waipi`o Valley, the [...]
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| Summit With Views | They’re calling it Turning the Tide, an environmental summit expected to draw 450 environmentalists, entrepreneurs and activists from throughout the world. The theme: connect, collaborate, inspire and act. Just as impressive, this gathering will be hosted in the newest lodge in America’s national park system: The Lodge at Cavallo Point, [...]
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| Wine Country Green | When we arrive, the U.S. Green Building Council is finishing up a meeting in the barn. In a few days a big dinner will be hosted here to celebrate Sonoma as America’s first Slow City. A Who’s Who of this part of California Wine Country will be in attendance, happy [...]
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| Oaxaca Gets It | Now we know why Oaxaca City, capital of Oaxaca state, is known far and wide as the food mecca of Mexico. The art of Mexican cuisine is revered here, savored slowly, with home cooks and restaurant chefs zealously guarding personal secrets for moles (they make 7 major kinds here) and [...]
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| San Cristóbal Green | Chiapas is Mexico’s southernmost state, its poorest, with a troubled recent history (remember the Zapatista rebellion of 1994?). But it is also one of the most beautiful. And of all the grand colonial-era cities in this region of Mexico, we find San Cristóbal de las Casas, in the highlands of [...]
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| Tulum Is It | Looking for green on Mexico’s Riviera Maya,the 80+ miles edging the Caribbean coast southward from Cancun? Here’s our advice: Go right on past Playa del Carmen, which can be fun and has decent restaurants but hasn’t seemed to have heard that the party will soon be over if they don’t [...]
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