Traveling the Green Way

Teensy Green has recycled subu notebooks to giveaway, perfect to use as your travel journal. Entries close 1st September 2008.
dkMommy Spot has a RARE2B Skin Care Travel Kit Giveaway. Entries close 1st September 2008.
dk Mommy Spot also has a Wildlife Works Soy/Cotton Tee Shirt to Giveaway. Entries close 1st September 2008.
Grounded Fitness has a Walking DVD to giveaway.Entries close Monday 1st September 2008.
Travel Product Guide has a Bender Ball to giveaway, the perfect exercise equipment for when you are on the road. Entries close 5th September, 2008.
And Healthbolt has five copies of the Food Matters DVD to giveaway. …read more

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An article by Peter Greenberg called Off the Brochure Travel Guide: Yosemite National Park provides a ‘personalized tour of Yosemite National Park, with insider tips on the famous spots, and ideas for places you might not think to go.’
It’s a real eco friendly guide, with suggestions for hiking and biking the trails, or kayaking and rafting the lakes.
It also highlights the Yosemite Hybrid Shuttles that run along the valley floor. Yosemite National Park, the first national park to to have hybrid buses, maintains a fleet of 18 of these low-emission, low-noise, fuel-efficient buses.

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Anyone see the recent London to Athens car rally. With all partipating cars running on used cooking fat, it’s a quite unique. CNN, writing about it in July, called it the ‘Chip Pan Rally’. But it’s official name is ‘Grease to Greece’.
The brainchild of Londoner Andy Pag, the Grease to Greece car rally had eight teams racing across Euope, stopping at restaurants, cafes, and fast-food joints along the way to feed not only themselves but also their cars.
The 10 day, 2,500 mile trip was designed to promote awareness of how easy it is to use cheap and environmentally …read more

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Slate writes about A Spontaneous Eco-Wander Through Germany.
The Green Parent asks Green RV-ing? Are You Kidding?

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Just wanted to share with Traveling the Green Way readers a great DVD giveaway over at Healthbolt.
Food Matters is an independently funded film looks at the trillion dollar worldwide ’sickness industry’ and ask why ‘despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies.’
 It’s been called the ‘food equivalent’ of The Inconvenient Truth.
Healthbolt has five copies of the Food Matters DVD to giveaway.
Check out the film’s trailer….

And then enter here.
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Concierge.com, Conde Nast Traveler’s online, interactive website has a list of ‘12 easy trips that will feed your soul without burning fuel’
Cruising Around Santa Catalina Island – pretty much everyone gets around this 48,000-acre island, which is protected by strict environmental regulations, by golf cart, foot, and kayak.
Biking around Las Vegas’s Red Rock Canyon, a stunning desert playground just 17 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip.
Diving Chicago’s waters for shipwrecks.
Railing to West Virginia’s Greenbrier Resort , where, in days gone by, politicos and high society types went for mineral waters of White Sulphur Springs.
Rafting along the Colorado River in an …read more

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Terracurve reports Dubai-based hotel chain looks toward green-luxury in Australia.
Green Lodging News reports Vail Resorts Named ‘World Saver’ by Conde Nast Traveler Magazine.

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Hey everyone, thanks for participating in the ‘Explore Costa Rica’ book giveaway’ – Traveling the Green Way’s  first ever giveaway and hopefully the first of many…
Now, for the moment you are all waiting for.
The winner, thanks to the random number selector, is…

    Angie
Congratulations Angie. Just email me with your address, I’ll arrange for Explore Costa Rica to be delivered to you.
As for the rest of us, getting a copy of Harry S Pariser’s Explore Costa Rica is as easy as clicking here and ordering it. At $US 22.95 post paid, it’s really a steal…
Harry, by the way, is also the …read more

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It’s all happening at Denver this week. The Democratic National Convention will be in full swing and it keeps on telling us that it’s a green one.
So what is so green at the DNC?
Well, to start off with, there are free bikes available for temporary use. Apparently there will be seven bike stations situated in downtown Denver all this week, with staff on hand over these two-wheelers to anyone interested in wheeling around Denver for an hour or two.
Those attending the convention will have their food served on corn-based plastic dinnerware and plenty of people around to make sure that …read more

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Hotel Chatter reports on a Government-Approved Eco-Resort Coming Soon to Dominica.
The New York Times writes about the cost of hybrid rentals

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