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I Wonder How to Wander Google Maps adds walking directions		22 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 4:40 PM on 22 Jul 2008 Taking another step toward complete indispensability, Google Maps on Tuesday became the first service of its kind to add walking directions. In addition to searches for car and transit travel, pedestrians -- and, hell, Segway-ers too -- can now find the most direct and flat route from Point A to Point B. The function works for trips up to 6.2 miles long, and recognizes that one-way streets only apply to ...
Topics: green living, news, placemaking, tech, travel, websites (all these topics)

Forty with nature Car camping with a Prius	biodiversivist	15 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Just returned from the annual five-day camping trip with about a dozen other families. This is a photo of a fully mature male Western fence lizard, also known as a blue belly because of the blue spot under the male's throat (my youngest daughter is the hand model). The spot is used to impress the ladies and as a warning to other guys trying to horn in. It only works for lizards, young male Gristmill readers, so don't get any ideas. The propensity for chickens, liza ...
Topics: biodiversity, green living, hybrids, travel (all these topics)

Question of the Century On driving versus flying	Umbra Fisk	09 Jul 2008	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My husband asked me this one the other day and I didn't know the answer, so I thought I'd ask an expert. Which is the more environmentally friendly method of travel: 100 people driving their own cars (let's assume non-hybrid vehicles) to a city three hours away, or 100 people flying in a plane to the same city? Natalie W. North East, Pa. Dearest Natalie, Carpooling is one way to be efficient; here on Floor 2B ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, climate, ecological footprint, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics)

Staycation, all I ever wanted	Clark Williams-Derry	01 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Photo: matildaben via Flickr. 'Staycation ... a portmanteau that combines 'stay' and 'vacation' and refers to a holiday that takes place either at or near home.' With gas well above $4 per gallon this summer, and with airlines raising prices and canceling flights because of high fuel costs, it's not too surprising to find a word like 'staycation' gaining a toehold in the North American lexicon. Google now finds nearly 200,000 web pages tha ...
Topics: green living, travel, air travel, gas prices (all these topics)

Sea, Smoke, and the Grape Three guidebooks for a dream vacation at your dining-room table	Tom Philpott	01 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
Eat your way around the world, without leaving home. If you had to choose one place in the world to go for a summer break, where would it be? For me, it would be a place I stayed once in Puglia, at the heel of Italy's boot. In 2003, my friends and I spent a week at an agriturismo operation -- a working organic olive farm that doubled as a kind of low-key rural hotel. Our quart ...
Topics: books, food, green living, recipes, travel (all these topics)

Get Outta Here How to green your vacation		24 Jun 2008	From A to Green
Wherever you go, there you are ... still having an impact. Everyone needs to take a break from the stresses of life, and environmentalists are no exception. After all, vacations are a necessary part of any sustainable lifestyle. And while vacation time itself can be hard to come by, your getaway needn't be hard on the planet. There are plenty of ways to green your vacation, whatever your budget and whatever your destination. Whether it's a ...
Topics: advice, ecological footprint, From A to Green, green living, travel (all these topics)

Please do disturb New certification in the works for green hotels	Katharine Wroth	11 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Saw a passing reference in a piece on travel trends about a new certification scheme for green hotels. Supposed to be developed in the next 90 days, says Joe McInerney, president of the American Hotel & Lodging Association. AHLA's site, meanwhile, has a list of hot green hotel progress, ranging from Motel 6 using sensors to turn off heat and AC in unoccupied rooms to the MGM Mirage in Las Vegas pursuing LEED certification in part by building a monorail to the Bel ...
Topics: business, green building, green living, greenish companies, travel (all these topics)

Trips to make your friends green Travel site sends out eco-themed newsletter	Sarah van Schagen	31 Aug 2007	Gristmill
You know when you're searching for airline tickets and you get that feeling that there might be a cheaper flight somewhere if you just check one more discount-airfare website? Yeah, I hate that. Which is why I like using Kayak.com, an aggregator that finds the prices at a number of different discount sites as well as on the airline's own site.The reason I mention this is because they also send out an email newsletter with various travel deals, and this week, there' ...
Topics: green living, travel (all these topics)

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, with greenwash all over Might want to check the elevation first	JMG	03 Aug 2007	Gristmill
So the guy to blame for AOL wants to create a 'green resort' in Costa Rica, because if there's anything low-lying countries in hurricane paths need, it's more jet travel by rich gringos eager to experience a little pseudo-green travel.
Topics: green living, greenwashing, travel (all these topics)

To the last glacier A mountaineer calls mountaineers climate criminals	JMG	24 Jul 2007	Gristmill
David Crosby and Graham Nash's haunting and hypnotic introduction, "To the Last Whale," before the song "Wind on the Water," is the kind of work that we need more of. What we really need is someone to write a song "To the Last Glacier" quick, so that more people wake up to the truth that this guy has beamed onto: flying on jets because you love some great natural wonder is like f*cking because you love virginity. Great article.
Topics: air travel, ecological footprint, green living, travel (all these topics)

Tell Us What You Flaunt, What You Really Really Flaunt Spice Girls reunion tour will be -- gasp -- carbon-intensive		12 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Tell Us What You Flaunt, What You Really Really Flaunt Spice Girls reunion tour will be -- gasp -- carbon-intensive We've been looking for an excuse to mention the Spice Girls reunion since it was announced two weeks ago, and we've finally got one. It seems that -- brace yourself -- the group's world tour will not be eco-friendly. In fact, each Girl will get a private Lear j ...
Topics: celebrity, climate, climate change impacts, green living, music, news, travel (all these topics)

Southern vacation A few random observations before getting back to work	David Roberts	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Well, here I am, back from a nine-day vacation in the South, sunburned, mosquito-bitten, jet lagged, and generally dazed. Rather than wading through the 300 or so emails demanding my attention, how about a few vacation observations? I split my time between big-city Atlanta and the sort of not-quite-rural, not-quite-city, not-quite-suburb nether regions that, it seems to me, don't get enough attention in the kind of lay sociological analysis we enviros are prone to. ...
Topics: Georgia, green living, placemaking, Prius, Tennessee, travel (all these topics)

Greenies read the NYT	Sarah K. Burkhalter	26 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Interesting (?): Three of the four top emailed NYT stories today (or at least, at this moment) have an environmental bent. 'Waiter, There's Deer in My Sushi' is about Japan's quest to sushify various non-fish meats -- deer! duck! horse! -- as restrictions have gone into place to combat overfishing of tuna. 'Enjoy Your Green Stay' is about the hotel industry getting on the environmental bandwagon. And 'At Home Depot, How Green Is That Chainsaw?' discus ...
Topics: food, green living, green products, travel (all these topics)

Farewell, complete walker A valedictory to Colin Fletcher	Charles Komanoff	20 Jun 2007	Gristmill
For most of us who care about ecology and the environment, there was some personal experience that brought us there. For me, it was wilderness hiking, beginning 30-plus years ago in the Grand Canyon and continuing across the American West. Two books helped instigate my journeys and those of thousands of fellow adventure-seekers and nature-lovers. The Welshman who wrote them, the intrepid and blessedly individualistic Colin Fletcher, died earlier this month, at 85. ...
Topics: cars, green living, placemaking, travel (all these topics)

Jet-propelled greenwashing We had to destroy the village to make it a global village	JMG	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The job of the PR industry: comforting the comfortable, afflicting the afflicted. Now on to protecting the feelings of the poor maligned air travel industry: As part of the makeover, there's a short in-flight video, titled 'Flying's a Wonderful Thing,' that has been produced to ease consumer guilt over plane travel, and brochures have been printed. 'Air transport made the global village a reality,' one pamphlet says.
Topics: air travel, green living, lying liars, travel (all these topics)

More from the 'I got mine' school of environmentalism Visit exotic travel spots before we obliterate them!	Kate Sheppard	04 Jun 2007	Gristmill
How's this for backwards messaging? A Forbes article posted late last week on MSNBC urges tourists to 'See these travel spots - before it's too late!', referring to the world's most endangered tourist destinations. These are exotic spots threatened by over-tourism, deforestation, and global warming, and as the article says, if they're on your destination list, they may be gone before you can book your flight. So wait a minute. The problem in some of these places ...
Topics: air travel, green living, travel (all these topics)

What if climate destabilization is the business plan? Maybe we're wrong thinking that airline executives don't get it	JMG	27 May 2007	Gristmill
This Washington Post story suggests that the airline industry is not being led by dumb people who just don't get it. No, the darling of the industry, the best and the brightest, the folks heading the industry vanguard, aren't stupid. They get it. They just don't care. They believe that personal wealth will protect them and their children and grandchildren. They plan for growth, even as the planes carry fewer people, which means they plan to keep increasing both their overall ...
Topics: green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics)

Green honeymoons I had one	Sarah K. Burkhalter	22 May 2007	Gristmill
It's no Weather Channel ... but look, I'm famous!
Topics: green living, shameless self-promotion, travel (all these topics)

Care and feeding at 35,000 feet When is pizza not a turkey sandwich?	Carl Flatow	15 May 2007	Gristmill
What we have available to eat is controlled by different businesses in different ways. Whether they are responsive to our needs and desires is something about which Americans can and should be at lot more vocal. We arrived at the boarding gate at George Bush Intercontinental Airport about an hour before the scheduled departure time, stripped of any liquids over 3.4 ounces not stored in a clear, quart-size, zip-top plastic bag. I went to the service desk to ask the air ...
Topics: food, green living, health, travel (all these topics)

Jets destroying the climate: Now with extra tax-avoiding power! Isn't aiding and abetting tax evasion a crime?	JMG	14 May 2007	Gristmill
Does anyone remember what a petard is? I think most folks only know them from the line in Shakespeare -- they picture some kind of quaint device, a Flintstones-like crane ... so you could be 'hoisted on your own petard' in a clever, comical way. Actually, a petard is a kind of primitive land mine. The airlines have built an enormous petard beneath themselves; alas, they will not be the only ones hoisted when it explodes. 14 trillion miles of 'free' flying outstanding ... m ...
Topics: green living, travel (all these topics)

Flights up, odds of stopping climate disruption falling The roar of jets drowns out the warnings about jet emissions	JMG	10 May 2007	Gristmill
'New Plane Trips Outstripping Any Ecological Improvements in Flying': Aviation growth is soaring to an all-time high, raising the prospect of a huge increase in the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. For the first time, more than 2.5 million commercial flights will be made around the world in a single month, with 2.51 million scheduled for May, says the flight information company OAG. This beats the previous record of 2.49 million flights last August. The fig ...
Topics: ecological footprint, energy, green living, travel (all these topics)

Carbon-free air travel We've got it figured out	Adam Browning	03 May 2007	Gristmill
It's a big problem, but I've been thinking hard about it and I think I've got it figured out: Of course, it will take a while to perfect the technology. Nominate test-pilots in the comments. For my part, I nominate anyone who complains about Al Gore's plane travel without making an equivalent effort to fight global warming. Here's your chance to show him up, big-time.
Topics: green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics)

Gore reaches fame of Biblical proportions Uh, literally	Kate Sheppard	03 May 2007	Gristmill
An Inconvenient Truth replaces the Gideon Bible in fancy new hotel. Dirt-worshiping hippies rejoice.
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, climate, green living, movies, religion and spirituality, travel (all these topics)

Cynics can't keep up Sawing off the limbs we've climbed up to see	JMG	03 May 2007	Gristmill
From the article 'Holiday at the End of the Earth: Tourists Paying to See Global Warming in Action,' posted on Common Dreams: 'The idea of global-warming tourism is full of ironies,' he said. 'If enough people expend enough fossil fuels to visit one Warming Island, they will ensure that there will be many more.
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, energy, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics)

Travolta strikes again John Travolta's private plane fetish brings the noise to a small Maine community	Yolanda Crous	02 May 2007	Gristmill
Oh, John Travolta. When will you and your planes stop p$#@ing off the populace? Apparently it's not enough for Mr. Saturday-Night-Give-the-Planet-a-Fever to wander the globe in his private planes, trailing an excess of carbon emissions in his wake. He's also got to land his plane near his Maine residence during the area's voluntary no-fly period between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Come on, John. It's bad enough that you're contributing to warming the planet. Now you're ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, travel (all these topics)

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