| High On Green | Thailand’s cities and towns can be fascinating. They can also become a bit much. The sooty belch of tuk tuks. The hordes of motor scooters. The visual hodgepodge and crowded sidewalks. Yearning for some serenity and clean air? How about a healthy dose of pampering, too? So treat yourself. Head […]
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| A Greensome Threesome | We’ll say it again: for green travel to thrive, it must be great travel. Slapping the word green or eco on a brochure ain’t nearly enough. High standards plus high integrity—now, that’s the winning formula. In northern Thailand, an eco-lodge operator called Asian Oasis has got it right. Two of […]
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| Northern Green Scene | Chiang Mai is Thailand’s 2nd-largest city after Bangkok but that’s like saying Lilliputians are 2nd-tallest after Gulliver. At some 200 thousand residents, it bustles without Bangkok’s frenzy. And, for the green traveler, Chiang Mai offers a concentration of earth-friendly attractions that all but make up for the ever-present noise and […]
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| A Place Apart | Yes, the food in Bangkok is generally good to great, and tempting street eats beckon everywhere. But if it’s great green and organic you’re seeking, well, not so easy. Health food markets are few in this raucous, sprawling metropolis where getting across town can literally take hours unless you’re on […]
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| A Paradise Recycled | In our wildest imaginings, Indonesia of our forefathers was never like this, but are we complaining? Certainly not. We are instead humming contentedly on the veranda of Rumah Mandau, a solid teak, handcrafted antique dwelling home in traditional rumah tinggal style that once stood in western Java. Now it sits […]
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| 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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| Nuts to Us | On Maui’s fabled road to Hāna, not far east of Pā‘iā town, there’s a roadside bamboo hut with the sign that reads HUELO LOOKOUT. Not only will you find fresh organic tropical fruit here ready to eat—whatever’s in season, be it mango, rambutan, lychee, papaya, and more—but there’s no better […]
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