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  See What You've Got to Lose: Take an Ecotour

  Consider taking a planned-itinerary ecotour.  The best ecotour providers, like Natural Habitat Adventures or REI Adventures, offset emissions created by every aspect of your trip, contribute ethically and consciously to destination communities and surrounding conservation efforts, keep track of waste and water, recycle, etc.  Side benefit?  You get to experience firsthand some of the rare habitats and wildlife (or check out that melting icepack) that we stand to lose if we don't change our ways.  Return from your trip not only refreshed and relaxed, but remotivated to do your part toward saving those once foreign bits of the planet that now feel suspiciously like home.On How to green your vacation posted 1 year, 4 months ago 7 Responses

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  Milking the customer

  A Wild Oats is also my neighborhood store.  The friendly staff treats me and the kids like family and I worry the older, smaller building will end up as one of the 10 Wild Oats that Whole Foods plans to close.  In Whole Foods' defense, though, I too had the "higher prices" perception, but recently stopped in a Whole Foods I was driving past when I needed a gallon of milk and discovered that the 365 store brand was a dollar cheaper than the comparable Wild Oats brand and/or the local dairy brand I sometimes buy at Target: $3.29 vs. more than $4.  One of the Wild Oats clerks recently confirmed that she's been checking out Whole Foods as well and has found a number of its 365 brand items to be good quality and cheaper than Wild Oats...  Here in Denver we're lucky to also have the less upscale-luxe natural foods chain Sunflower Market, which I hope may also help keep prices down.On Trade consultancy: Whole Foods will 'consolidate supply chains' posted 2 years ago 6 Responses

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  Bend it Like Boulder

  And let's not forget that other sports team from that home of all things carbon neutral, Boulder, Colo.: The Colorado Rapids U-23 soccer team (formerly Boulder Rapids Reserve) announced itself as the first carbon neutral soccer team this season under the sponsorship of ecotour company Natural Habitat Adventures - and was covered in none other than gristmill itself ("On the Ball: Reserve the right," April 11, 2007).  No sooner did they make Gristmill than professional brethren Colorado Rapids made them an official farm team with the all new CRU-23 name.  Coincidence?  I think not.  For more on the team, check out www.coloradorapidsu-23.com.On 15 Green Sports Stars posted 2 years, 5 months ago 15 Responses