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• Cruising Trends, Kid-Friendly Ski Resorts, Aspen Art & Eco-Travel - Hour 2 - PGW Radio

  
  Peter Greenberg Worldwide — Authority: 531
  On December 19, 2009, Peter is broadcasting his radio show from the Viceroy Snowmass in Snowmass Village, Colorado. Featured guests from the second hour include: Carolyn Spencer Brown , editor in chief of Cruise Critic, analyzing the hottest cruising trends for 2010; Michelle Higgins , Practical Traveler for ...
  1 week ago

• Wilderness Makes West Virginia Wonderful

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 608
  Scene from West Virginias Monongahela National Forest Wilderness. Image credit: Wilderness Society West Virginia is more than deserving of its state slogan: "Wild and Wonderful." It boasts Ancient mountains, untamed rivers, caves, culture, and much more.Whats bizarre to me, however, is that the West Virginia ...
  1 week ago

• In the Heart of Central America: Planning a wedding or honeymoon in Honduras

  
  Gadling — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Scuba Diving , Festivals and Events , Honduras , Hotels and Accommodations , Budget Travel , Central America , Caribbean Imagine walking down a lush green aisle to a small open-air wooden structure where billowy white curtains frame a view of a valley spread below and blueish mountains in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can the Words “Eco” & “Travel” Ever Go Together?

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 643
  In recent decades, travel has become cheap, thereby allowing a large portion of the population to go wherever it pleases. While, at first glance, this seems a good thing, it has contributed in many ways to the increasing homogenization of world culture, and an increasing environmental footprint–something that more ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Traveling by Rail and Bus May Be More Convenient

  
  Travel Guides — Authority: 529
  If there is one thing the US is not known for, it’s transit via bus and rail. Travel by busses and railroads is commonplace in many other developed nations, except in the US. This has changed in recent years, however. In fact, ridership for Amtrak, the United States rail system, has increased year by year for ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Grand Canyon as a Winter Wonderland

  
  Travel Guides — Authority: 529
  It’s an unfortunate reality that something as magnificent as the grand canyon can be looked as an “out of the way trip”, only “if we have time”. It’s true – the majority of visitors to the park come on the way or from Las Vegas; to these people the grand canyon is nothing more than a detour. Since ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bowermasters Adventures -- Overfishing the Galapagos Islands

  
  Gadling — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Activism , Arts and Culture , History , Learning , South America , Ecuador , Central America The equation is straightforward: Too many people attempting to live permanently in the Galapagos + too few jobs to go around = a percentage are resorting to illegal economies to survive. Shark finning ...
  3 weeks ago

• RockResorts Now Recycles Barely-Used Hotel Soap and Shampoo

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 608
  Image via: Fatty Tuna on Flickr.com Finally, someone has found a way to close the loop on all of that barely-used soap and shampoo that goes to waste after hotel patrons depart one hotel for new hotels and new showers full of sample-sized soaps and shampoos. Clean the World has come up with a way to get 100% use ...
  3 weeks ago

• New ski shuttle serves Badger Pass in Yosemite National Park from Oakhurst and Tenaya Lodge

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 557
  Love to ski or snowboard at California’s Yosemite National Park, but hate the drive?  There’s a thrifty option coming soon for visitors and locals in nearby Oakhurst and guests at Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite, just outside the park: a ski shuttle that will take you and your gear right to the park’s Badger Pass Ski ...
  3 weeks ago

• Greenwash Watch: Can a Monster Ocean Liner Be Green?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 608
  Royal Caribbean It is the Oasis of the Seas, by far the biggest cruise ship ever built. It is too big to stop at any port in Europe; it holds 6,300 passengers so they had to rebuild a terminal to handle them all, with ninety check-in stations. They were able to squeeze them all in with an architectural trick from John ...
  3 weeks ago

• Green RVs: Budget-Friendly Group Travel

  
  Peter Greenberg Worldwide — Authority: 531
  RV’s can be an economical way for families to get out and see the country. But can these gas-guzzlers also be an eco-friendly way to travel? Yes they can, so here’s what you need to know to have a greener RV travel experience… Check out tips for greener RVs in this video from AARP’s travel ambassador … ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tips for Volunteering and Traveling Abroad

  
  Travel Guides — Authority: 529
  Voluntourism is the act of traveling to another country and volunteering your services for the greater good of the community. It isn’t a new concept, because the Peace Corps have been providing similar services for quite some time. However, widespread voluntourism is gaining speed and becoming more popular with the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Headed to Beantown? Take the T.

  
  Uprooted, an eco-travel blog — Authority: 417
  Boston’s one of those truly people-oriented cities, so few and far between in America: a magical place dominated by young people and universities, where everybody walks, few people drive, and you can get wherever you want to go on the train. I’d been told about the massive student population here, but it has to ...
  4 weeks ago

• 9 Wild Eco Volunteer Opportunities to Save the World

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 608
  Photo by Mara 1 via Flickr "Its not a job. Its an adventure." That old Navy recruitment slogan can be readily applied to voluntourism , perhaps the most environmental way to fly off to remote lands. Opportunities abound, from replanting secluded sections of rainforest to protecting rare endangered species, to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Keeping Holiday Travel Green

  
  CT Green Scene — Authority: 121
  by Maggie Toppin Maggie Toppin recently relocated to Norwalk from Minneapolis. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Public Relations from the University of Saint Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She worked for a money manager before...
  4 weeks ago

• How to Travel Cheap & Green: couchsurfing vs. hostel

  
  Uprooted, an eco-travel blog — Authority: 417
  The first time I visited Boston, I stayed in the HI Hostel on Hemenway Street. I moved on after just a few days, but loved Boston and wanted more—so I circled back through later in the summer, staying with a couchsurfer the second time around. What was the difference between the two experiences, and which would ...
  4 weeks ago

• Small-Ship Cruising Expeditions to Alaska and Beyond

  
  Peter Greenberg Worldwide — Authority: 531
  If you enjoy floating casinos and Lido decks, a small-ship cruise may not be for you. On the other hand, if you enjoy access to harbors and coastlines where the big ships can’t go, allowing you to go kayaking to get up close and personal with calving glaciers, viewing bears or hiking 200-foot summits, a small-ship ...
  5 weeks ago

• Tourists sue South African game park after “threatening” encounter with lions

  
  Times LIVE Blogs - Posts — Authority: 151
  Eight British tourists who were trapped by lions when their game-viewing vehicle rolled are suing Sanbona Wildlife Reserve near Cape Town for hundreds of thousands of pounds, The Times reports from London. According to papers filed before the High Court in Cape Town, the tourists’ vehicle allegedly rolled after the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Top 10 Green Tourist Destinations for 2009 (slideshow)

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 608
  Image via: Anthonyko on Flickr.com In need of somewhere to travel for New Years? Want to start planning your summer vacation? Now in its fifth year, National Geographic Traveler magazine has choosing the top green destinations in the world to a science. Many of the locations were chosen for their relative ...
  5 weeks ago

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