Latest Stories in Travel - Page 15
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Colin Angus is Almost Home
We first wrote about Colin Angus and his quixotic quest to be the first person to circumnavigate the planet entirely by human power over 15 months ago The team has changed (he is now accompanied by his fiancee Julie Wafaei). but he is almost home,
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Greenspace Cottages: A Truly Green Cottage Rental
Where we live, much of the population either owns or rents summer cottages. They tend now to get bigger and more expensive and duplicate everything that a city house has and have few green aspects or redeeming benefits. Where postwar most working
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Boulder Hot Springs: Boulder, Montana
Now that the film festival is over, I'm finding other ways to enjoy Montana. Fellow TreeHugger and TriplePundit Nick Aster paid me a Big Sky visit and we decided to find out what quiet and open space are like around Boulder Hot Springs. The Co-op
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Yurts on the Big Sur: This is Not a Flashback
We usually avoid posts about yurts, domes and the like, reminding us as they do of our days at the commune. This is different: an off-grid 16 yurt resort in, as Henry Miller
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LIME: Aspen Living Comes with a Price
Aspen has a reputation for being green. The tony ski town has its own global warming project manager, and has instituted innovative programs like using tax dollars from mansion owners to help buy solar power for the less well off. But a new report
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Ice Hotel for Romania's Carpathian Mountains
Much of the high quality hemp used for apparel, bags and footwear comes from Romania. So too does this story about an odd way to stimulate eco-tourism. An 8 bedroom "Ice Hotel" has been built at 2,000 metres above sea level on the shores of Balea
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Air Travel and Climate Change: Take the Train
One transatlantic flight for a family of four creates more CO2 than that family generates domestically in an entire year.(source) Because of this many travellers are turning their backs on flying and going overland. While this is easier in Europe with
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The Best of Affordable Eco-Vacations
" Traditional tourism, with its exotification and exploitation of the foreign, its strain on delicate ecosystems, and its tendency to exacerbate wealth and power disparities, requires a suspension of social consciousness that more and more people are
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"Eco-tourism" Named Buzzword of the Year
You know the lazy little seaside cabana tucked away in a Costa Rican national park that you've been dreaming about all winter? Well, you'd better book it pronto because Sunday's New York Times travel section announced that eco-tourism is the "buzzword
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Touring on Biodiesel: Incredible Adventures
If you can't bicycle tour, perhaps the next best green way to travel is with Incredible Adventures of San Francisco- they run their buses on pure B-100 straight-up vegetable oil based biofuel. They claim it "emits up to 80 percent fewer carcinogens,
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LIME: Pedaling Toward a Sustainable Future
There's no more appropriate way to tour the landscape of sustainable living than astride a two-wheeled — and zero-emission — steed. That's why Portland Peace and Justice Center organized the Sustainable Energy In Motion Bike Tour, which
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Collage Eco-Suite at Hotel Triton
We have written about some of Hotel Triton's celebrity designed eco-suites in the past, but here is yet another reason to stay in the San Francisco hotel - the new Collage Eco-Suite designed by model/environmental activist Angela Lindvall and Alexandra
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World Cruising with a Small Footprint
If you are in the luxury yacht business, I suggest you move on immediately to the next article. For the rest of you who made your normal unrealistic New Year's resolutions, I’ve got some good news. It looks like you might just sail around the world
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Choose Your Own Eco-Adventure
As holiday season and winter's chill-factor kick in, it's hard not to fantasize about the ultimate getaway — wouldn't it be nice to luxuriate in the warm tropical climes of the Amazonian rainforest or beaches of Belize right about now? For more
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Weatherproofing your vacation in the face of Climate Change
Climate change affects us all, but if you have a whacking great credit limit and the world is your oyster, how does it affect you? The Wall Street Journal tells all about how climate change is making some vacation spots less attractive and others more
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Cape Farewell: Raising Climate Change Awareness Through Art
We've been taking note of climate change's inroads into popular culture lately. Whether it's through celebrity -- Alanis narrating a PBS special -- or mainstream journalism -- Salon and Rolling Stone's review of climate change leaders -- we want to raise
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'Sustainable Energy in Motion' Bike Tour
Tipster Vladislav D. thought TH readers might be interested in a program he is involved with. So we read the associated blurb: Bike hundreds of miles. Meet Incredible people, Participate In amazing service projects. Stay on organic farms and work to
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Responsible Travel - the Website
"We feel that it is only right that our holidays should also contribute towards enriching destinations and benefitting local people. All our holidays are screened to ensure that this is the case." And just how do the guys at the British based
