| 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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| His Green Majesty | Everywhere you go in Thailand, there he is. Shrines with his portrait, towering images draped in banners and floral arrangements, are seemingly omnipresent. Oddly, in this country sometimes called the Land of Smiles, he is seldom seen with a smile on his royal face. But Thailand reveres him. He is […]
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| The North Shore | This is more like it. At first glance, Maui seems a bit of a puzzler for the green traveler. It’s been too successfully marketed as a paradise of luxury resorts and world-class golf, neither of which have historically fostered much in the way of earth friendliness. These are concentrated almost […]
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| A Green Icon | Kudos to the National Park Service. They’ve succeeded (with the help of other green-spirited souls) in recycling one of the San Francisco Bay Area‘s iconic military reservations into one of the region’s brightest green gems. It’s now called The Lodge at Cavallo Point. Right after it opened, the New York […]
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