June 2010

  • 5 (Other) Ways to Green Airline Travel

    By ecoscott on 6/25/10 8:58pm
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    I’m traveling today, so I’m thinking a lot about airports. I’ve always wished that airports were more fun- like, there could be a climbing wall, or a slide or something (actually, I saw a slide installed at an airport in Europe as part of a guerrilla marketing campaign, so there’s hope!). But today I’ve been thinking more about how they can be greener. We all know that airplane travel is one of the most impactful things that someone can do on the Earth, that it is a gigantic part of your carbon footprint- like this is the arch, and everything else you do is the toes. But there are countless ways to make the act of flying greener without waiting around for bio- to make it into jet fuel. Here are a few thoughts:

    ON THE PLANE:

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  • Perfect Honeymoon Hotels

    By sparklyscotty on 6/24/10 5:47am
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    The honeymoon is indeed a special time when the newlywed couple gets to experience the first steps of life together as husband and wife. Planning this special time can present some problems though. The location and accommodation should be unique enough to place the honeymoon apart from other, more standard holidays. Fortunately, there are a great many fabulous honeymoon locations to be found worldwide. Let us tempt you with some of the best honeymoon hotels below.

     

    Hotel Le Seven, Paris, France

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  • Swallowing Water on the Skykomish

    By becksta on 6/1/10 3:10pm
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    Skyomish Rafting Trip-Boulder DropSkyomish Rafting Trip-Boulder DropLast year, a woman jumped into the Skykomish River to save her young son. The water was running too high and they were both swept down the river until they were rescued and flown to Harborview. He lived, but she didn’t.

    Almost exactly a year after the woman jumped in the Skykomish River, I went rafting on the Skyomish a few miles farther upstream than where the woman and her son had been. If I’d read the news about her and her son, I probably wouldn’t have decided to go on the rafting trip at all.


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