Best Hotel in New Zealand: Treetops Lodge and Wilderness Experience, Rotorua

Publisher: The Informed Traveler
Author: Mary Winston Nicklin
Published: January 7, 2009
Props to Treetops Lodge for being recognized on the Travel + Leisure “World’s Best List” as the top hotel in New Zealand. Occupying a 2,500-acre natural wonderland in Rotorua (New Zealand’s therapeutic thermal region, Maori cultural center, and the trout fishing capital of the world), Treetops [...]

Phulay Bay in Krabi, Thailand: The Latest from the New Ritz-Carlton “Reserve” Brand

Publisher: The Informed Traveler
Author: Mary Winston Nicklin
Published: October 22, 2008
Back in 2006 we started raving about Molasses Reef, the unspoiled island destination in the Turks and Caicos that would be the setting for the first “Ritz-Carlton Reserve”– the “highest tier of luxury properties” designed in an eco-friendly way with respect for the local environment….

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Fashionable Online Eco-Boutique

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Publisher: Spire
Author: Suzanne Aaronson
For Sindhu Venkatanarayanan, the earth is her catwalk. The passionate and knowledgeable London-based founder of the online boutique DeviDoll has assembled a selection of super-stylish labels that warrants just as much attention from fashion editors as it does from the Sierra Club….
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Luxurious Langham Hotel Auckland Welcomes Weta (the Native New Zealand Insect)

Publisher: The Informed Traveler
Author: Mary Winston Nicklin
Published: October 7, 2008
This fierce-looking insect (pictured at right) is getting a VIP welcome at Auckland’s swanky Langham Hotel. As part of its “Guests of the Earth” environmental program, the five-star property recently unveiled a “Wetarium”– New Zealand’s first weta habitat– for the Auckland Tree Weta…
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What’s Hot: China’s Carbon-Neutral Hotel, URBN Shanghai

Publisher: The Informed Traveler
Author: Mary Winston Nicklin
Published: October 3, 2008
With all the talk of smog-clouded skies in Beijing and factories sprouting up like weeds, it’s nice to see a new(ish) line of carbon-neutral, boutique hotels in China. URBN Shanghai is making waves as a model for eco-design and sustainability in the hospitality sector….
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Green Tech: Green boots, some for lots of green

Publisher: PopGadget
Author: Tam
Published: October 6, 2008
ow that snow has begun to fly and the drifts are piling up, it’s boot time. Just kidding about the snow, but it IS boot time. Green boot time, in fact.
This eco-conscious roundup, brought to you by White Apricot, includes green boots that demand lots of green. It leads off [...]