| A Thousand Words | The very first in our new series of the-photo-says-it-all memories of great green travel. Pretty cool, huh? Look for more of these daily, weekly, monthly … whenever. Curiouser and curiouser. These guys (gals? … can’t tell from down here) peered down at us on a photo-perfect afternoon on the Mediterranean […]
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| Hana And Beyond | East Maui is dominated by 10,023-foot Haleakala, dormant but magnificent, with its vast crater where astronauts once trained for moon landings. On this far shore of Maui, the paved road stops at Kaupo, abruptly ending the coastal drive that begins on the North Shore and continues along the fabled Road […]
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| Amamos los verdes | We love Mexican food. Who doesn’t? What we typically wonder when salivating for a Mexican meal in a restaurant, though, is: where exactly does this stuff come from? At its highest expressions, south-of-the-border cuisine can, of course, be as subtle and complex as an Octavio Paz poem. But like other […]
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| Greening in Roma | They say Rome is an old city that never gets old. We never tire of it. Long ago we fell under the thrall of its simple classics of cuisine like cacio e pepi, an irresistible Roman dish that consists of only 3 ingredients. Of its piazzas, ostentatiously grand or all […]
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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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| A Mendo Wowie | There’s no mistaking the green of Mendocino. We don’t mean the color, of course, though the moods of this Northern California coastline transform ordinary chlorophyll into a pulsating emerald-on-acid. No, we mean our kind of green. And fellow green travelers, here in Mendo you just let out a big sigh […]
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| Not Rice-a-Roni | It’s Rainbow Grocery. The greenest and greatest grocery and general store in Northern California, if not the entire galaxy. Its solar-powered location in SOMA (South of Market), in the shadow of the 101 freeway overpass, sure ain’t glitzy. There’s always a homeless guy peddling the Street Sheet (a newspaper put out […]
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| North to Nirvana | Northern Bali is one big ahhhhhhh compared to the anthill of activity to the south. But with its slower pace and uncrowded vistas come a lagging sensibility about the benefits of green living. Yet there are bright spots. One such is the seaside village of Pemuteran, where local fishermen regularly […]
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| Maharana of Green | Rajasthan is famous for its palaces. These fabulous fortresses scattered across this storied, and still fascinating, state of India remain as monuments to the enormous wealth and regal whims of their original occupants, the absolute rulers of these erstwhile feudal domains. But the palaces of southwestern Rajasthan, on placid Lake […]
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| New in Napa | We check in and are escorted through sunny courtyards and flourishing gardens to Room 102. Drawing in a breath, we gasp, “Oh, wow.” What we behold is a modern, high-tech suite made welcoming as a country inn by just the right accents of dark wood and soothing natural tones. We […]
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