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Fodor’s Green Travel Guide

Courtney Carlisle — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:00:39 +0000

If you are planning a big holiday trip, check out Fodor’s Green Travel, which features the best eco-friendly lodgings around the world.

The foreword by Richard Hammond discusses how travel can still be responsible and what main elements a savvy traveler should take into account. Fodor’s also explains what criteria they use to rank each resort in different regions of the world.

The “EcoFile” sidebar gives information on rooms, rates, locations, times to travel, how to get there (including average CO2 emissions and estimated cost to offset). At the bottom of the sidebar, it further highlights why the chosen resort is socially or environmentally responsible and ranks it using a 6 leaf system - 6 being the highest award.

This is perfect for planning your next trip or as a gift for an eco-savvy friend.

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Wooden Keys, Denver and The DNC

mcmilker — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:47:40 +0000

A Boulder based company used the power of the press to make a big name for their company. Sustainable Cards, LLC has managed to get their name and their idea in front of the American public by donating 700,000 hotel keys to be used during the Denver Democratic convention.

Peo Akesson, founder and chairman of the 2 year old company ran across wooden hotel trees, used in Europe for well over a decade and founded his fledgling company with Greg Hartmann, Managing Director of HVS, the largest hotel consulting firm in the world.
Replacing non biodegradable plastic hotel keys and even ones made of recycled plastic with wooden keys is a bit of a no-brainer. Besides the environmental savings of 1300 tons annually that would be gained by switching to wooden cards, the long term cost to the hotel is pennies.

A Carbon-Neutral B&B Stay

Shirley Siluk Gregory — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:49:22 +0000

Red Bud Manor, a Victorian bed-and-breakfast in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is offering a pretty neat special for the green-minded (and fuel-cost-conscious) traveler: the Carbon Neutral Package.