Happy Independence Day, suckahs! Here is our planned schedule for how to celebrate the fourth in a fun yet socially conscious way: Location: Beach in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. 7am – Get woken up by douchebags who decide a good time to practice setting off the night’s fireworks is before anyone has had their morning fair trade espresso. 7:15am... »

We’re truly baffled.  Maybe it’s because just today we finished Barbara Kingsolver’s wonderful (leetle bit preachy, Babs) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and are all hyped to go to the farmer’s market, bake some bread, and sit on turkey eggs. Here’s the conundrum: Slow Food USA is holding slow food cooking demonstrations in three American cities.  So... »

Recently, we were asked by a magazine to submit some travel money-saving trips.  We don’t know if any of our tips made it into the publication but we thought we’d also share them with you.  These are in addition to the typical ones we always talk about - local food, eco-friendly tours (this means no... »

Sometimes, sustainable tourism is a good thing.  And sometimes, it’s a mask designed to demonstrate how progressive a country is when that country is in fact, catering to tourists more than to its own longtime culture and the health of its citizens.  The latter is exactly what seems to be happening in Bostwana now. According... »

Did anything in that title make sense to you?  Keep reading and all will be revealed.  Graham Land (possibly most awesome name ever) is an environmental writer who we knew back in the days of his straight edge youth, which incidentally served us well when we were locked out of our house one day in... »

Over the past year, two new foundations focused on sustainable tourism have been formed.  While in theory, this is great news for those of us who promote and believe in responsible, sustainable, socially-conscious, whatever you want to call it-tourism, there is also cause for slight concern. The Bodhi Tree Foundation was founded by Jena Gardner,... »

The book “The Lost Girls” came out yesterday, the same day we finished our advance copy of the 539-page opus. As a reader (and full disclosure, sometimes contributor) of their longstanding blog, we had been looking forward to reading this book detailing three women’s travel together around the globe.  It’s a great story – who among... »

Last year we were introduced to someecards (thanks, Shannon!), a snarky alternative to cheesy, typical e-cards, and since then, we’ve had a good time picking out deliberately ambiguous (is she being serious? is she mad or just being funny?) cards to our loved ones.  Here are some goodies related to the upcoming summer travel season:                                                               Fun, right?  Just wait until... »

Jeremy Smith writes about how his vision of ecotourism has changed over the years.  His personal epiphany is interesting but the best part of this article is the questioning of passive versus active ecotourism.  That is, doing the least to harm a place is good, but isn’t doing the most to improve a place... »