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Touched by an Untouchable
(After reading the post below, check out my GTG / Reuters article on the same topic) Kathmandu’s smog-choked streets were not helping my oh-shit-I-can-barely-walk-five-step-without-sharp-pains-in-my-left-lung pneumonia paralyzing my forward movement. Fortunately, the antibiotics which I had borrowed from a fellow traveler (on the one and only weekend in 15 months that I had not lugged my … Continue reading
A LEED green hotel for every budget in New Delhi
My eco-hotelier friend Ravi smirked when I asked him for ‘green’ hotel recommendations in Delhi. So I was pleasantly surprised to find not one, but two newly-opened hotels designed from the ground-up using LEED green building standards. And that’s pretty much where the similarities ended. Both were pretty cool, but for entirely different reasons. Whereas … Continue reading
Green Hero: Gili Islands’ Delphine Robbe
Scuba diving near Bali is fantastic, and while researching related environmental issues (coral bleaching, over-fishing, etc), I met many hard-working individuals in NGOs and small businesses doing incredible work. Today, my article about a few of these people was published, and I hope I´ve done justice to their stories, to their efforts. There are actually three … Continue reading
Tale of Two Taj (Mumbai, India)
It’s only been a few weeks, t it feels like I left India a lifetime ago. And there’s no bigger contrast that between Mumbai (Bombay) and Bali – replacing the incessant clamor of car horns with the ever-present crowing of roosters (they apparently didn’t get the memo that crowing is only allowed during the dawn … Continue reading
Bali …
Ubud, Bali (Indonesia) – June 29, 2011 In “Shore Leave” – Star Trek Episode #17, Star Date 3025.3 (original series), Kirk and the Enterprise crew begin to see strange sights – whatever they’re thinking suddenly manifests in reality. Nearly forty years later, the TV series Lost, … Continue reading
Cool Guys: Darian Rodriguez Heyman
I’ve only met Darian via email, shortly before catching a flight outta town last year, but liked him immediately. A socially-conscious activist, organizer and entrepreneur, he’s done a number of cool things – from being Executive Director of the Craigslist Foundation, to helping produce San Francisco’s annual Power to the Peaceful concert (attended by 70,000 … Continue reading
CheapFlights.com interview with Michael
After lining up media interviews for my clients for so many years, I was surprised when, several months ago, I received a Cheapflights.com request to interview me. Just published today … Waiting to Board with Michael Straus Michael Straus has worked for 20 years in sustainable food and agriculture, and environmental issues. After successfully launching … Continue reading
In the jungle, the mighty jungle …
My latest article has been published — tracking ferocious tigers in the heart of wild India, stranded in the deep, dark jungle – alone, with only a small Swiss Army knife to protect me from savage beasts; no food except the grubs which I extracted from the dead, rotting corpse of the … Right … … Continue reading
The Last Resort
My new article – about The Last Resort in Nepal (both on Green Traveler Guides and Reuters) – was just published … a very cool place which, behind the scenes, has done a tremendous amount for their community … the highlight of my visit (this past November, 2010) was my bridge dive in the abyss below … Continue reading
Brand New! The Sonoma Marin Cheese Trail
Bay Area cheese lovers, foodies unite! Whose brilliant idea was this cheese map? My sister Vivien! Click here download the .pdf Featured today on SFGate.com: Milky Whey: Following the Sonoma Marin Cheese Trail Sonoma and Marin counties—the Normandy of Northern California—are home to the most artisan cheesemakers in California, if not the country. The foggy, grassy … Continue reading
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