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Arab Spring of organic cuisine
This past Spring, I was great fortune of visiting Beirut, Lebanon. I was on a 2-week USAID-funded volunteer assignment, to evaluate the emerging organic food and farming sector, and to develop a communications strategy to help take them to the next level. I met with the country’s pioneers of organic agriculture, dined with forward-thinking restauranteurs … Continue reading
Green in Dubai’s Desert
A weekend in Dubai – Part 2 — the Al Maha Desert Resort, the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve and an antelope’s quiet disdain. Excerpt below, and click here for the full article. +++ The towering skyscrapers of Dubai disappear behind me in a haze. The air smells and tastes of sand, even as the taxi whisks past a … Continue reading
Electrifying Eco-Resort
As some of you may have already gathered, my journey here in Asia has increasingly focused on what is called ‘mysticism’ by some, and quantum physics by others. Chi, prana, kundalini, chakras, universal energy, zero-point energy, etc. The words (and the traditions from which they derive) are less important to me than the underlying phenomena … Continue reading
Dubai’s green dust storm
On a recent flight to the Middle East (including a 2-week volunteer gig in Lebanon developing the organic food and agriculture sector), I squeezed in a quick, 3-day layover in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The trip started with grabbing a drink with my friend Ivan (whose parents own the wonderful Chileno Valley Bed … Continue reading
Goa flashbacks
My latest travel article, Escape to Green Goa, was just published and, and it’s a bit shocking that it was already a full year ago that I first stepped foot on her sandy shores. It was in Goa that I taught myself to ride a motorcycle, despite the hoards of drunken Russians hell-bent on proving … Continue reading
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
Reuters Syndicates GreenTravelerGuides!
Big news … Reuters has started syndicating our articles from GreenTravelerGuides.com!! My first syndicated story is one I wrote about the sustainability initiatives of Hong Kong’s Eaton Smart Hotel (owned by parent company, Langham Hotels International) For Immediate Release February 7, 2011 Contact: Peggy Diedrichs peggy@greentravelerguides.com GREEN TRAVELER GUIDES GOES … Continue reading
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