| 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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| Green And Inn-viting | Mendocino sets a mood. Perched on rocky headlands high above a swelling kelp-forest ocean, it’s like nowhere else on the California coast. A stage backdrop of a 19th-century seafaring village, with tidy New England ship captain’s homes and wooden sidewalks. A Pacific beacon for artists and dreamers and lovers of foggy [...]
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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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| Green Wine News | Sonoma County just got a little greener. J Vineyards & Winery, in Russian River Valley, has achieved certified sustainable status through the California Sustainable Winegrowers Alliance (CSWA). The sustainable certification covers all vineyard and winery operations. J Vineyards & Winery, located just south of Healdsburg, is independently owned and has [...]
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| Eat, Sleep Green | How cool! Awaiting us is what promises to be a perfect night in Green Wine Country: a “green” meal, a “green” sleep. At Vineyards Inn, the locally acclaimed organic tapas restaurant in Kenwood, dinner timing has just been confirmed, a key to our accommodations and instructions on how to operate [...]
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| Green Wine News | Not far from Niagara Falls, around the Ontario town of Beamsville, the peach and cherry orchards of the past are quickly disappearing. They’re being replaced by grape vines. Many of these new wineries are going green. They are producing organic and biodynamic wines, and have sheep grazing the vines and [...]
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| Green Travel News | The Heathman, a luxury hotel in Portland, has received one of the highest environmental honors in the industry. Green Seal Silver Certification sets strict environmental standards that properties must meet to achieve leadership levels in sustainability, including waste minimization, water and energy efficiency, hazardous substances handling and environmentally responsible purchasing. [...]
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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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| 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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