| Green Travel News | Green gamblers, you’re in luck. MGM Resorts has installed the first electric vehicle (EV) charging station on the Las Vegas Strip. It’s located at The Shoppes at Mandalay Place, between Mandalay Bay and Luxor resorts. Charging is free for retail and resort customers driving electric vehicles like the Nissan LEAF […]
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| Green Travel News | The Heathman, a luxury hotel in Portland, has received one of the highest environmental honors in the industry. Green Seal Silver Certification sets strict environmental standards that properties must meet to achieve leadership levels in sustainability, including waste minimization, water and energy efficiency, hazardous substances handling and environmentally responsible purchasing. […]
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| Tata’s eco commitment | This is a tale of two Tajs. The Taj Mahal Palace and the Taj Lands End. Both are in vast, captivating Mumbai, a city equally well known for unparalleled elegance and sprawling urban slums. Both are luxury hotels of the first order yet could not be more different in style. […]
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| Traverse City Eco | Before Hemingway became obsessed with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing, Michigan’s Little Traverse Bay region inspired his youthful imagination. In the woods beyond the family cottage and the opulent resort hotels, he eyed wildlife, gun in hand, and cast his line in crystal-clear streams and lakes, often making friends […]
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| Green Travel News | Southwest Airlines is spending the summer on 40 green projects to celebrate its 40th anniversary. High school and college students from the Student Conservation Association (SCA) will travel in a custom-designed Southwest Airlines biodiesel RV. During the tour, the RV will stop in 25 cities, joining Southwest employees and community […]
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| Green Travel News | Hotels in Washington, D.C., Stone Mountain (Georgia) and San Francisco get this year’s Good Earthkeeping honors. This recognition comes from the American Hotel & Lodging Association, as part of its annual Stars of the Industry Awards, which have been given out annually since 1966. Hotel George in Washington, D.C.—a Kimpton […]
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| Green Travel News | A Gulfstream G450 is the first aircraft to fly from North America to Europe using biofuel. The Honeywell-operated aircraft touched down safely in Paris on a 50/50 blend of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel and petroleum-based jet fuel powering one of the aircraft’s engines. The biofuel is derived from camelina, a […]
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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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| Green Travel News | Harvesting crops in Manhattan is tough. So Element New York Times Square West is doing the next best thing. Giving guests and neighbors easy access to fresh, seasonal produce and artisanal farm products, the earth-friendly hotel has forged a pioneering partnership with Holton Farms, an eighth-generation Vermont-based farm and Community […]
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| Beach House Biodynamic | Spring rains have only recently paused on the morning we veer westward, leaving Highway 101 and heading into the feminine undulations of the Central Coast of California. Suddenly it’s vineyards, ranches and roller-coaster hills of a green so vivid against a sky so boldly blue it makes us positively giddy. […]
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