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| Ubud’s Green Yoga | I’ve been a big Michael Franti & Spearhead fan ever since my friend Leah practically begged me to purchase the Everyone Deserves Music CD in 2003. So I am not surprised in the least to thoroughly love Franti’s new green Soulshine Bali yoga retreat—it’s just a short stroll beyond the […]

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| Staying Green & Local | I have a hot lead on a green home stay (and a very cool community organization that fosters them) in the dusty central India town of Orchha. And so with my travel buddy Canada Mike, I hop a local bus and hit the road. Located in Madhya Pradesh state, […]

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| Central Europe’s Eco-treasure | Church bells herald my arrival at the Bohinj Park Hotel, the starting point of my green tour of Slovenia. That’s not unusual; in this predominantly Catholic country, ornate church steeples overlook almost every town and village. What’s jarring is walking into the lobby of a five-star, 102-room luxury hotel in […]

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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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| Nepal’s Green Massage | Can something as ahhhh-some as a massage be green? Why not? Our definition of green extends to experiences that give back, that are embedded in a local economy and directly benefit local people in need. If your massage does that, it’s green. But I go even further. I say massage […]

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Four global air carriers have been named to this year’s Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Delta, Air France-KLM, All Nippon and Qantas were recognized as “Sustainability Leaders.”

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| Canada’s Western Wine Country | Western Canada’s British Columbia is home to native people called the Okanagan, who lived well for eons in the beautiful valley that today bears their name by foraging berries and roots, hunting the abundant wild game that drank from the clear waters of spectacular Lake Okanagan, and fishing the […]

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| Green Travel News | One of America’s most-visited seaside tourist attractions finally boasts a sustainable seafood restaurant. The San Francisco Seafood Watch Alliance has signed on Fog Harbor Fish House on Fisherman’s Wharf—which means the 220,000 meals it serves to visitors yearly with be prepared with only “ocean-friendly” seafood, and that customers will be […]

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| Green Garden State | Green New Jersey? Is that an oxymoron? If you think so, you don’t really know the Garden State. In fact, New Jersey is one of the nation’s most proactive promoters of ecotourism. From its 70 miles of the legendary Appalachian Trail in the north to the 200-acre Cape May Migratory […]

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| Europe Holiday Discounts | Most major airlines have just announced excellent sales on Business Class tickets from the U.S. to Europe over the long Thanksgiving weekend and the Christmas-to-New Year’s holidays. But you’ve got to move quickly, because the sale seats are limited (and you’ll need to be flexible in your dates and flight […]

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