| Organic Yoga Retreat | Travel can be tiring. Even great green travel. And so, sometimes, is plain old day-to-day life. If you happen to be in Nepal, here’s the antidote. Tucked within the hills above the frenetic bustle of downtown Kathmandu, the secret gardens of the Himalayan International Yoga Academy (HIYA) await the weary […]
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| Saybrook Point Inn | Still think “green” and “luxury” cannot inhabit the same space? If so, we take you now to Saybrook Point Inn and Spa, which puts to rest any doubt whether AAA-Rated Four Diamond resorts can also be role models for eco-friendly hospitality. An easy two hour drive north from New York […]
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| Recycled Hong Kong | Foregoing its traditional “green” Christmas tree this year, the Novotel Hong Kong on Kowloon’s Nathan Road collected 3,026 clear plastic water bottles and constructed this 12-foot-high, 16-tier “greener” tree lit with energy-saving LED lights. This is the first Novotel in China to achieve Green Globe Certified status under the worldwide […]
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| Nepal’s Green Resort | After too many nights in the loud, tourist-jammed Thamel neighborhood in central Kathmandu, I decide it’s time to head out of the insanity. Surprisingly, my search for serenity keeps me within the city limits. A winding road climbs into the 700-acre forest of ancient trees that was once the private […]
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| Cape Cod Green | We knew that “The Vineyard” was a favored playground for presidents, politicos and the privileged class, but never considered it to be a green travel destination. That is, until we arrived “on-island” and started sleuthing. Maybe we should have guessed. Seven miles from the closest mainland shoreline, the 15 thousand year-round […]
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| Green Travel News | In its first-ever Sustainability Report, hotel giant Marriott says in the past 2 years alone its greenhouse emissions and energy use have each fallen by 11%. The company is also trending nicely to meet its goal of a 25% cut in energy and water consumption per hotel room by 2017. Marriott is the […]
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| Greening in Guangxi | If there’s one thing I love more than entrepreneurs, it’s entrepreneurs with life-changing epiphanies! Chris Barclay, an American expat living in China since the early 1990s, is just such an entrepreneur, with just such epiphanies. His award-winning Yangshuo Mountain Retreat and Yangshuo Village Inn, nestled in the stunning karsts of Guangxi […]
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| Greening With Pele| Come to the volcano, home to the Polynesian god Pele. Mark Twain, on first seeing the fire and majesty of Kilauea—the world’s most active volcano, on Hawaii‘s Big Island—enthused, “Here was room for the imagination to work!” Today there is even more reason to be awed by the daily spectacle that is Hawaii Volcanoes National […]
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