Archive for May, 2008
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San Francisco’s Hotel Vitale announces Green Meeting Packages
These days, more and more businesses are looking to incorporate environmentally friendly travel into their existing corporate travel programs, allowing properties like San Francisco’s Hotel Vitale to take a step toward “greener” pastures while attracting some steady clientele.
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Gear retailer Backcountry.com offsets its energy use with the “Renewable” variety
Backcountry.com, an outdoor-gear retailer, has been working with Renewable Choice Energy to offset its company’s energy load in pursuit of a payload of 1.5 million kilowatt hours by the end of the year, the equivalent of removing 190 cars off the road for a year.
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Travelport and ASTA announce new Green Member Program
ASTA and Travelport have recently announced the launching of the new ASTA Green Member Program. The program aims to educate travel professionals about the significance of eco-friendly travel, how to make positive changes in their own companies, select green vendors and suppliers and better sell this form of travel to their clients.
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Harrah’s earns EPA Environmental Quality Award
Harrah’s recently announced that it has become the first gaming corporation in the U.S. to receive an Environmental Quality Award, the highest recognition given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Region Two, for its outstanding commitment to protecting and enhancing environmental quality within the sector.
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Climate change to dramatically effect tropical wildlife hardest
According to new research published by Reuters, tropical creatures will be drastically left in harm’s way if the climate warms even a few degrees in places that are already hot.
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Joaquin Phoenix Gets Inked ‘4Real’
Upcoming social-spotlight series, 4Real, by MTV Canada and Executive-Produced by Joaquin Phoenix, is set to shed some celebrity light on global community and environment issues, aiming to develop cultural and sociological awareness.
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Can Business Conferences Ever Be Green?
You might be able to conduct a videoconference with key business partners, but when it comes to meeting new contacts and picking up new ideas, real-life business conferences are difficult to beat. But if we are to continue to meet with our corporate peers in giant aircraft hangar scale conference centres, how do we reconcile that with the desire to limit our environmental footprint?
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Protecting Where the Wild Things Are
Where the wild things are is often where inquisitive travelers congregate, potentially setting up a love-it-to-death dynamic in the visited environment. A small, visionary travel company, Ecoventura, has announced a new partnership with the environmental heavy hitter, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), to reduce the detrimental effects of growing tourism in the fragile ecosystem of the Galapagos Islands.
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Planning your next trip the simple way
Planning a trip today can be quite overwhelming, whether it be for business or pleasure. Travelers are seemingly inundated with information with sometimes confusing information on where and when to go. Our advice? Whether or not your travel is “green”, just remember to keep it simple.
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Asia’s travel and tourism leaders discuss challenge of climate change
The inaugural Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) CEO Challenge conference took place in Bangkok, Thailand earlier this week. Entitled ‘Confronting Climate Change’, the region’s travel and tourism industry was encouraged to collaborate on a range of environmental initiatives.
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It is important for me to be able to track certain data on the site, as mundane as that may sound, in order to be able to deliver a site with content that people will actually want to read.
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Gaia Anderson Hotel
Gaia at Anderson is a 122-room green hotel, located in Anderson, California. It is the second Gaia hotel in California to be developed and opened by Wen-I Chang (his first being the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa in American Canyon).
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I booked a hotel with TravelWorm in October 2008. They charged by credit card but did not pay the hotel. ...
diane hill | January 1st, 2009
Star Island Bahamas is now looking for investors for the infrastructure of the island. For more info call Alex Papas ...
alex | December 29th, 2008
Green Energy Summit is unique in that it endeavours to identify practical steps that will be of interest to decision ...
gillberk | December 27th, 2008
Come check out how we are vertically growing today! Visit our website to see our vertical farms up and operating. ...
Jessica Brock | December 19th, 2008
