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How a Transfer of Trust Can Combat Climate Change

September 11, 2010

The Transfer of Trust could be a humanist’s alternative to carbon offsetting, repairing the damage caused by international travel.

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Shark Attacks: The Cost of Cage Diving?

August 1, 2010

You could go cage diving in South Africa to observe sharks – but first learn how your trip could help condition sharks to attack divers.

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Giethoorn: The Dutch Village With No Roads

July 26, 2010

A village where life is taken at a slower pace because there are no roads. Sound attractive? Geithoorn is a Dutch village that will delight and inspire you.

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The Surreal Beauty of Namibia’s Remote Landscapes

July 23, 2010

A place where wildlife has endless space to roam, where a visitor can take to the road and not see another driver for hours. Your spirit will soar in Namibia!

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Noosa Trail Network

June 9, 2010

It’s hard to resist the beach at Noosa, but for an adventure off the beaten track you must travel west a little way into the hinterland. Exploring here has become a lot easier with the establishment of the Noosa Trail Network. It offers 106 kilometres of trail through a smorgasbord of landscapes – rolling hills [...]

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Saving the Endangered Mountain Gorillas of Rwanda

June 8, 2010

Poaching in Rwanda has been disastrous for the endangered mountain gorilla – until poachers became the saviors of their former victims.

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In Albania, 750,000 Bunkers Converted Into Hotels, Cottages, and Bars With Gorgeous Views

May 14, 2010

mushroom bunkers converted photo inside
Mushroom hotel room- credit Abitare

Albania’s Enver Hoxha ruled from 1945 to 1985 and towards the end made North Korea’s Kim Jong-il look normal. Being a bit paranoid, he constructed an extraordinary three quarters of a million mushroom-shaped bunkers. That presents a lot of opportunity for creative repurposing and reuse.

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Wildlife and Wilderness from Savannah to Sea

April 22, 2010

Safari adventures from beach to bush and from rustic to deluxe

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Huge Bus is Really Capsule Hotel on Wheels

March 26, 2010

rotel rolling hotel
Images via gismag

TreeHugger has posted many times on capsule hotels, that are so efficient at packing people into small spaces. The German travel company Rotel Tours goes one step further, and puts a capsule hotel on wheels. Tourists sit in the front by day, and move to the rear at night. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Greenwash Watch: Can a Monster Ocean Liner Be Green?

December 7, 2009

oasis of the seas monster cruise ship image rendering decks
Royal Caribbean

It is the Oasis of the Seas, by far the biggest cruise ship ever built. It is too big to stop at any port in Europe; it holds 6,300 passengers so they had to rebuild a terminal to handle them all, with ninety check-in stations. They were able to squeeze them all in with an architectural trick from John Portman’s Hyatt Hotels in the seventies: make an atrium. It is like two hotel towers stacked on a barge. It is the Las Vegas of the seas, with seven “neighborhoods” of ice shows, theaters, rock climbing walls and surfing simulators.

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