As world leaders gather in Paris for a world climate conference, Norway struggles with a possibly related issue—or at least one the Prime Minister believes is related. Prime Minister Erna Solberg (photo above) has managed to offend…
Tikal National Park is one of the best preserved Mayan complexes anywhere, and certainly in Guatemala. It’s a 575-square kilometer preserve in Peten, about a 6-7 hour drive (or 30 minute flight) from Guatemala City. It’s actually a small…
Seeham, near Salzburg, has been named Austria’s most environmentally-friendly place to live in a competition sponsored by the state broadcasting system, ORF. It was the
Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has said he wants to build the long-planned but now canceled bridge from Reggio in Calabria to Messina in Sicily, but critics think it’s either impossible or a bad idea. The bridge has been a long time…
A horrific spike in air pollution in Paris Monday has led to the national Ecology Minister, Segoline Royal, granting Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo the power to impose traffic bans when pollution is high.
Take a walk on the wild side at Allen Banks and Staward Gorge, one of the largest areas of ancient woodland in Northumberland.
While Paris, Copenhagen and other cities have tried out car-free days or are planning some as a test, Oslo is going full on with a plan to get private cars out of the central downtown district by 2019 to help slash greenhouse gas emissions by 50%.
Today’s picture is doing double-duty; it served as a clue in one of the earliest Where In The World is TravelGumbo puzzles, and is
Our trip to Northern Arizona, featured in Part 1 of this blog, included some spectacular natural scenery, along with an impressive church set into the mountains of Sedona, Arizona. In this installment, we include two National Monuments that were once…
When an airline is as fascinated with its colorful name as JetBlue is, down to serving blue-potato chips on every flight, it might be a surprise to find that they’re also obsessed with green. But JetBlue, which already installed an open…
As world leaders gather in Paris for a world climate conference, Norway struggles with a possibly related issue—or at least one the Prime Minister believes is related. Prime Minister Erna Solberg (photo above) has managed to offend…
Tikal National Park is one of the best preserved Mayan complexes anywhere, and certainly in Guatemala. It’s a 575-square kilometer preserve in Peten, about a 6-7 hour drive (or 30 minute flight) from Guatemala City. It’s actually a small…
Seeham, near Salzburg, has been named Austria’s most environmentally-friendly place to live in a competition sponsored by the state broadcasting
Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has said he wants to build the long-planned but now canceled bridge from Reggio in Calabria to Messina in Sicily, but critics think it’s either impossible or a bad idea. The bridge has been a long time…
A horrific spike in air pollution in Paris Monday has led to the national Ecology Minister, Segoline Royal, granting Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo the power to impose traffic bans when pollution is high.
Take a walk on the wild side at Allen Banks and Staward Gorge, one of the largest areas of ancient woodland in Northumberland.
While Paris, Copenhagen and other cities have tried out car-free days or are planning some as a test, Oslo is going full on with a plan to get private cars out of the central downtown district by 2019 to help slash greenhouse gas emissions by 50%.
Today’s picture is doing double-duty; it served as a clue in one of the earliest Where In The World
Our trip to Northern Arizona, featured in Part 1 of this blog, included some spectacular natural scenery, along with an impressive church set into the mountains of Sedona, Arizona. In this installment, we include two National Monuments that were once…
When an airline is as fascinated with its colorful name as JetBlue is, down to serving blue-potato chips on every flight, it might be a surprise to find that they’re also obsessed with green. But JetBlue, which already installed an open…
