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  • April 2008

    • Time Slows on Easter Island

      W  |  Apr 20, 08 12:00 PM CDT

      Time Slows on Easter Island

      (Newser) - Tourists have left no stone unturned on Easter Island, flocking at rates of 50,000 a year to arguably the world’s most remote habitation. Five hours of flying over uninterrupted Pacific Ocean lands you on this mostly undeveloped volcanic rock with its haunting stone figures (moai), but today it boasts an eco-friendly luxury lodge among the pubs in its sole village, W reports. More »

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      travel  • tourism  • eco tourism  • adventure travel  • green travel  • Easter Island

    • Frolic Guilt-Free in Costa Rica

      Treehugger  |  Apr 15, 08 6:38 PM CDT

      Frolic Guilt-Free in Costa Rica

      (Newser) - If carbon-footprint guilt is keeping you from taking a vacation, one company has your sun-soaked answer, TreeHugger reports. From the domestic flight to the hotel stay—and even airport transfers in biodiesel vans—NatureVacations' eco-friendly package to Costa Rica promises to offset every ounce of carbon you produce on your island adventure. More »

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      travel  • eco tourism  • Costa Rica  • green travel  • eco friendliness  • carbon offsets

  • December 2007

    • Darwins Were Planning Panama Canoe Resort

      Times (UK)  |  Dec 8, 07 8:56 AM CST

      Darwins Were Planning Panama Canoe Resort

      (Newser) - The British man who faked his own death in a boating accident had been planning with his wife to open an eco-tourism resort offering idyllic canoeing holidays, the Times of London has discovered. John and Anne Darwin spent almost half a million dollars on property in Panama, including $390,000 on a swath of virgin forest on the banks of Lake Gatun, home to tapirs and toucans. More »

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      fraud  • England  • accident  • missing person  • insurance  • Panama  • eco tourism  • John Darwin  • Anne Darwin

  • November 2007

    • Melting Alaska, Tourist Hot Spot

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Nov 14, 07 1:31 PM CST

      Melting Alaska, Tourist Hot Spot

      (Newser) - Tourists traditionally head to Alaska for cruises and fishing, but for a growing number, it’s a global warming pilgrimage. Heating up five times faster than anyplace else, Alaska has drawn politicians, scientists, and now tourists to see the melting future, the Christian Science Monitor reports. “This has immediate consequences,” one visitor said. “Perspective you don't get on the East Coast.” More »

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      climate change  • environment  • Alaska  • tourism  • Arctic  • glacier  • eco tourism

    • World's Best Green Hotels

      Travel Leisure  |  Nov 5, 07 10:15 AM CST

      World's Best Green Hotels

      (Newser) - Solar-heated pools, energy-conserving lights, composted food scraps . . . hotels aren't all bastions of consumption and waste. Travel+Leisure teamed up with Conservation International to assemble a list of 20 eco-friendly hotels: Spice Island Beach Resort, Grenada Soneva Fushi Resort & Six Senses Spa, Maldives Heritance Kandalama, Sri Lanka More »

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      list  • Australia  • Egypt  • Colorado  • Switzerland  • hotel  • Philippines  • Sri Lanka  • Tanzania  • Bahamas  • ecology  • spa  • green building  • eco tourism  • green travel  • Maldives  • Zanzibar  • LEED

  • September 2007

    • Tourism Heats Up as Arctic Does

      Wall Street Journal  |  Sep 24, 07 8:22 AM CDT

      Tourism Heats Up as Arctic Does

      (Newser) - The effects of global warming are drawing a crowd. About 1.5 million people will visit the arctic this year, as climate tourists swarm to see the world’s ice caps as they are beginning to melt. But it’s an ironic endeavor, the Wall Street Journal notes, because eco-tourists are contributing to the destruction of the very places they visit. More »

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      global warming  • tourism  • Arctic  • Greenland  • ice melt  • eco tourism

  • August 2007

    • Israelis Eye Building Islands

      Jerusalem Post (Israel)  |  Aug 17, 07 4:02 PM CDT

      Israelis Eye Building Islands

      (Newser) - The Israelis want to build artificial islands in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Tel Aviv, and put an international airport on one of them. It's been talked about, on and off, for more than a decade; the project has finally been deemed feasable by a planning committee. The panel’s chair said the island chain is needed to support Israeli’s surging economy. More »

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      Israel  • environmentalism  • tourism  • airport  • eco tourism  • island  • Tel Aviv  • Mediterranean Sea

  • May 2007

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