Eco-haven in Alaska completely hand-built from local driftwood. Private cabins for groups of eight. The lodge is run completely on a non-polluting alternative energy system of wind and hydropower which supply the entire grounds with energy to spare. Beginning in the summer of 2007, a tree will be planted for every visitor to the lodge to offset carbon emissions. Activities include bear viewing, beachcombing, hiking secret nature trails for use of lodge guests only, wildlife photography, sea kayaking, glacier kayaking, river rafting, clamming, fishing, touring the neighboring villages of Seldovia and Halibut Cove, glacier touring, flightseeing, beach fires, saunas, or just relaxing in the hammock with a good book. Sea kayaks, shore-fishing, and halibut fishing gear are provided to guests at no extra charge.
For more details visit http://www.sadiecove.com/
Alaska’s Sadie Cove Wilderness Lodge
AMANKORA – Properties in Bhutan
I want to go to Bhutan! Four lodges make up Amankora in Bhutan’s central and western valleys. The lodges utilize “clean” electricity, mostly drawn from a hydroelectric grid. Recycling activities boast a 95% capture rate. Adhering to ancient cultural, religious, and social traditions, Bhutan annually offers a limited number of travelers wonderful insights into life in the Himalayas as it has been lived for many centuries. Guests may either visit one of the lodges or, to best experience all that Bhutan has to offer, Amanresorts can plan a tailor-made journey, including one or more of the Amankora lodges located in Paro, Punakha, Gangtey or Thimphu.
Balamku Inn – Green Accommodations in Mexico
Balamku is a small hotel that focuses on ecotourism and intimate surroundings. The name, Balamku, means home of the jaguar, and the hotel is located in the southern area of the Yucatan Penninsula. All of the energy needed to run the hotel is generated by solar panels and wind generation. Water conservation is a high priority as is eco-friendly waste management practices and preserving the natural environment. Balamku is a wonderful quiet retreat to get back to nature, watch some birds, and renew your soul.
More information visit http://www.balamku.com/ecology/
BAOBAB – Alternative Roots to Travel
BAOBAB was founded to promote an ALTERNATIVE form of TRAVEL (ecotourism) that benefits local communities economically and is sensitive to the natural environment.
BAOBAB offers small group trips with set itineraries or tailor-made eco trips. Trips are generally 8 days and locations offered are Egypt/Sinai, Jordan, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia.
More info at http://www.baobabtravel.com
8-day ride, Washington to Pittsburgh-Rails to Trails
Fun ride trekking from Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh— on the country’s most popular canal towpath and the Northeast’s premier rail-trail. The 335-mile tour occurs June 23–30, 2007, and will lead 500 cyclists on the ride of their lives on the longest multi-purpose trail in the country. Twenty-two meals are included. Accommodations are either in your supplied tent or a vendor-supplied tent (they do all the putting up and taking down) Campsites may be open fields, town parks or standard campgrounds.
Get all the details online at Rails to Trails
Big Sur Backcountry Service, California with the Sierra Club
Travel out to one of the most beautiful places in the USA, to Big Sur, California. Spend a week working with the US Forest Service improving eroded trails. This area is prone to fires and brush clearing may be added to the agenda.
Price: $395 includes all meals and camping at Divide Camp, an area located among mature pine and oak trees near the junction with the Pine Ridge and Carmel River Trails. April 28-May 5, 2007 More info at SierraClub.org
Conservation volunteering in Iceland
Work in Skaftafell National Park in southeast Iceland constructing and maintaining footpaths in the National Park. These paths help to protect the area’s fragile ecology from the impact of tourism. The work is strenuous, so this trip is great for the physically fit types. Accommodations – you will be sleeping in your own tent but hot showers and a base camp provide space for meals and conversation.
GB £480 ex flights – visit http://www.responsibletravel.com
BE the CHANGE you want to SEE in the WORLD”
Sustainable Energy in Motion Bicycle Tour – tours are set up for traveling one, two, or three weeks. Riders will visit organic farms, a land trust, a visionary community school, and also have an opportunity to join in on several educational hands-on activities with Oregon’s best nature building communities. The tours are designed to challenge and inspire, empower with knowledge of what is possible, and facilitate incredible social change. A third to half of the time is spent biking with the rest spent in discussion, doing service projects, or resting from all the riding! By exploring Oregon on a bicycle, you can use your time pedal-powering to change the world.
Online at http://www.democracybike.com/
Veracruz Coffee Tour — January 17–24, 2007
Join the University of Vermont Educational and Cultural Tours and learn about fair trade, organic, and shade-grown coffee. Open to the public, this tour is for coffee enthusiasts, coffee professionals, students, environmentalists, and social justice advocates. Participants will gain hands-on experience and first-hand insight into the day-to-day reality of small coffee-producing families and their communities. Tour members will observe why coffee is related to some of the most urgent and critical issues of our times. Join us to see why seemingly unrelated subjects – from illegal immigration and illegal drugs, to the decline of migratory songbirds and the disintegration of farming communities in Latin America – all come together around coffee production and the cup of coffee we consumers choose to drink.
More info at Coffee to Go
$1445 plus airfare (after November 15, 2006)
Hotelito Desconocido
“Hotelito” is a small, luxurious, getaway intent on keeping the local environment as close to natural as nature intended. Solar energy supplies the power used to run the hotel. As evening approaches, candles light the guest rooms (each guest room is also supplied with a flashlight) and restaurant where dinner is served. Luminaries provide light along the pathways that weave throughout the resort.
Just sixty miles south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, “Hotelito” is located on a wetland estuary between the Sierra Madre Mountains and the beautiful Pacific Ocean. It is home to sea turtles and over 150 species of birds. As a guest, you will have the opportunity to closely view the birds, and, perhaps witness the baby sea turtles making their way to the sea for the first time.
As a luxury resort, all amenities are available for you. The difference here is how owner and creator Marcello Murzilli has chosen to deliver them; with care and attention to the natural surroundings, giving back to the local economy, and providing a truly enchanting off-the-grid resort. great green gives Hotelito 4 Big Green Thumbs Up!
For Rates, Reservations, all information visit: www.hotelito.com
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