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Traveling the Green Way

Archive for August 2008

August 31st, 2008

Contests and Giveaways: Green and Otherwise.

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 [...]

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August 30th, 2008

What’s Green…at Yosemite National Park.

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 [...]

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August 29th, 2008

Green Events: Traveling on Grease to Greece.

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 [...]

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August 28th, 2008

Daily Green Travel News (28 August 2008)

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

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August 28th, 2008

Win a Copy of Food Matters DVD.

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 [...]

By Liz Lewis -- 1 comment

August 26th, 2008

Clean Green Getaways Suggestions from Concierge.com

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 [...]

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August 26th, 2008

Daily Green Travel News (26 August 2008)

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.
Tags: green news, Green Travel, green travel news, travel green

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August 25th, 2008

Winner of the ‘Explore Costa Rica’ Book Giveaway.

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 [...]

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August 25th, 2008

What’s Green…at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.

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 [...]

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August 23rd, 2008

Daily Green Travel News (23 August 2008)

Hotel Chatter reports on a Government-Approved Eco-Resort Coming Soon to Dominica.
The New York Times writes about the cost of hybrid rentals
Tags: green news, Green Travel, travel green, travel news

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