| The Perfect Balance | Great green travel is, like many things, a matter of healthy balance. Often the places we sleuth out are quite green … but not great enough. So, regrettably, we can’t sing their praises. We’re not necessarily talking fancy, exclusive or pricey. What’s our definition of great? That’s easy: Can we […]
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| Green Farming Visionaries | Nearly 9 years ago, Blair and Ben Ripple dug deep into dark volcanic soil in the highlands of central Bali and pulled out a handful of potatoes. It was the first harvest for Big Tree Farms. Since then, the Ripples have become the premier producer of sustainably grown (organic) produce […]
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| Those Revolutionary Sixties | Not so very long ago, all of Bali, Indonesia, was green. Which is to say, before chemicals were widely used on the luxuriantly green rice terraces that feed this busy island of 3+ million inhabitants. The flooded paddies were laboratories of biodiversity, home to eels, snakes, frogs, snails, many insects, […]
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| The Occidental Tourist | Taipei, the megapolis on the island nation of Taiwan, greeted us with an overcast sky that revealed itself as mostly smog and a zillion motor scooters piloted by stony Taiwanese wearing designer surgical masks to ward off the suspect air. The architecture on the ride in from the international airport […]
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