If you're looking to do some green travel, and do it right, look no further than the Pollywogg Holler Eco Resort. Nestled up north in western New York state, this place is the real deal.
Surrounded by nothing but untouched nature, you can get away from it all while roughing it in high style. Just don't call it glamping.
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by Dan Gould
Up Box is a stylish, easy way to get fast food in London that's not crap. The shop offers quick, top quality meals packed in a sort of urban picnic box. A main course, salad and dessert runs about $10.
Not only is the food good but the packaging is eco-friendly, too. The compact box is made of unbleached cardboard, and the cool looking cutlery is recyclable as well.
The menu covers all kinds of world cuisine including Turkish, Mexican, Thai, Moroccan, French, Indian and Italian. Selections are low-carb when possible and--naturally--use locally sourced produce.
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· Up Box [Official Site]
· Urban Picnic Lunch Box [Wallpaper]
· London Travel coverage [Jaunted]
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We've been hyping up the alternative jatropha biofuel idea recently to help planes fly around a bit greener. So we're mighty pleased to hear that Air New Zealand is on track to make what it says will be the world's first large passenger aircraft test on jatrohpa-sourced fuel sometime before the end of 2008.
The jatropha plant, Air NZ says, is a great source for earth-friendly fuel--it grows with little water and produces an inedible oil, and they've been sourcing their jatropha from sustainable plantations in India and South East Africa. The oil is about to be sent to the engine people at Rolls Royce for final testing.
Air New Zealand has big green goals: it wants to be the most environmentally sustainable airline in the world, and has set an objective of using a million barrels of environmentally sustainable fuel per year by 2013. Mightn't be long before we're delayed on the tarmac for re-jatropha-ing.
Related Stories:
· Air New Zealand Bio Fuel Trial on Track for Year-End [Jaunted]
· Alternative Fuel Flying: Is Jatropha Nut Oil the Answer? [Jaunted]
· The Green, Green Skies of New Zealand [Jaunted]
[Photo of jatropha seeds: Laboratorio en Movimiento]
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by amandak
When's the last time you used a phone book? To us, looking up a number in a dusty yellow tome is the equivalent of riding a horse drawn carriage across the country instead of just flying. We get all our digits from the web!
So Omni Hotel's latest move makes so much sense. The hotel chain has decided to immediately cease providing phone books to guests at all its properties, and the company is recycling all 30,000 phone books currently in use at its hotels.
Eliminating the books will have a huge, positive environmental effect, Omni says, by saving 217,200 pounds of paper, 760,200 gallons of water and 217 barrels of oil annually. If you still need a phone number and can't get online, just use Google's SMS service.
Related Stories:
· Omni Hotels [Official Site]
· In Waste-Saving Move, Omni Hotels Says It Will Eliminate Phone Books [Green Lodging News]
· Green Travel coverage [Jaunted]
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Public transportation in Miami is getting a stylish green makeover.
Outdoor advertising company Fuel is donating 600 bus shelters to the city, payed for by advertising and powered by the sun. The sleek looking structures will feature built-in benches for weary travelers, as well as an overhang to escape bad weather. The sun powered safety lighting and electric components will save 1,200 tons a year of carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere.
Now all they need are some solar powered buses!
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· Miami's Bus Shelters Go Solar [Ecolocalizer]
· Fuel Miami Donates 600 Solar-Powered Bus Shelters [SignWeb]
· Green Travel coverage [Jaunted]
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Blogger, biker and, oh yeah, Talking Head David Byrne has designed nine new bike racks for New York City, and each one reflects the neighborhood in which it was installed. Sadly, the cycle parking is temporary and all nine will come down in about 11 months, leaving New York with just 5,000 other bike racks.
Byrne's designs include a dollar sign ("Wall Street"), a reclining woman like you'd see on a mud flap ("Olde Times Square") and a silhouette of a man ("Chelsea").
None of the racks are directly along the path of New York's Summer Streets program, which wraps this Saturday, but two are nearby. After the installation runs its course, Byrne hopes to sell his racks off as works of art.
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· New Bike Racks, Courtesy of David Byrne [NYT]
· "Summer Streets" Turning NYC into a Summer Destination [Jaunted]
· Biking coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: robzand]
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by pbb
Imagine the thrill of being a race car driver: Slamming your foot on the gas, going hundreds of miles per hour, whipping around turns, hearing the non-existent roar of the engine. Wait, what? This isn't Formula One, it's Formula Zero.
The new race series is the world's first international championship for hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars. Held in Rotterdam August 22-23, it features teams of university students that will put their zero-emissions cars head-to-head in a race to the finish line.
A warning: Formula Zero may not be as hair raising as NASCAR. Although drivers will be zooming around Rotterdam's city center, they'll only be going 30 mph. Cut them some slack, though: It may not be death defying, but it is the cutting edge of clean technology.
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· Formula Zero World Premiere in Rotterdam [Treehugger]
· Formula Zero [Official Site]
· Netherlands Travel coverage [Jaunted]
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Have you heard green is in?
All kidding aside, we like travel opportunities that give us a chance to feel a little less guilty about our carbon footprint. So we're excited that Insider London, which already offers cool tours of gay London, quirky London and one focused entirely on interior design, recently debuted London's Cutting Edge Green Tours.
Billed as "A three-hour crash course in sexy sustainability," the tour with 26-year-old guide Cate Trotter shows visitors some of London's best eco-spots, such as Britain's first hydrogen-powered building; floating gardens in the Thames that produce renewable energy; some cute vintage shops and Earth-friendly places to grab food.
The best part is the tours limit groups to eight people, so you lose a bit of that whole embarrassing I'm-clearly-on-a-tour thing.
Related Stories:
· Cutting Edge Green Tours [Official Site]
· Green Travel Coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Insider London]
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