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Go Green Expo, the largest environmentally-focused business and consumer show in New York’s history, announces today its exciting return to New York City for the second year in a row April 17-19, 2009 at the New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan. The nation’s premiere eco-friendly business and consumer show promises the strongest show yet with big name exhibitors including Disney’s Earth movie, The Sundance Channel’s The GREEN, DELL, Home Depot, Food Network’s Good Food Garden, and Honda’s all-new advanced hybrid vehicle, The Honda Insight.
“We are so pleased to bring Go Green Expo back to New York for the second year in a row,” said Bradford Rand, CEO and Founder of Go Green Expo. “Last year’s event was such a success with over 10,000 attendees, and we have even more to look forward to this year.”
The event will showcase a variety of special interest consumer and business areas including: Home Building and Energy Conservation; Health, Beauty and Fashion;…
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Over the next several years, the National Park Service (NPS) will study thousands of miles of historic overland trails to determine whether they should be added to the Oregon, California, Mormon Pioneer, and Pony Express National Historic Trails.
The study, which lists 64 individual trail segments for study in more than a dozen states from the Mississippi River to the Pacific, is authorized under the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act (Public Law 111-11) signed by President Obama on March 30. In addition to those specific trail segments, NPS is directed to identify and evaluate other trail routes that may be historically linked to the four existing national trails. Work will begin when funding is in place, probably within the next year.
Responsible for conducting the feasibility study is the National Trails Intermountain Region program office of NPS, with offices in Santa Fe and Salt Lake City. The trails office administers the four overland trails, as well as five other national…
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PepsiCo’sAquafina, the nation’s best-selling brand of bottled water, recently unveiled its new “Eco-Fina” plastic bottle - made with 50% less plastic than before, eliminating an estimated 75 million pounds of plastic annually. This new development comes nearly 2 years after Nestle’s “greener water maker” move with the Poland Spring “Eco-shape” bottle, then said to use 30% less plastic than bottles currently available on the market and aims to reduce 65 million pounds of plastic resin annually.
Aquafina is also “driving additional environmental benefits” by producing the bottle at purification centers where filling occurs and by eliminating cardboard base pads from 24-packs - reportedly saving nearly 20 million pounds of corrugate by 2010.
Equipped with an all-too-snazzy “rippled web” and almost-sexy hourglass shapes, these water-giants seem to suggest that saying “We use less plastic” is as good as asking consumers to not use plastic at all - obviously encouraged more by recent…
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Eco tour company Natural Habitat Adventures has announced the expansion of its operation with a tour company devoted to Asian travel, Asia360. Natural Habitat Adventures purchased pioneering Asia tour provider Snow Lion Expeditions and is re-launching the company under the Asia360 name “to reflect its focus on all of Asia and our commitment to all-encompassing, deeply rewarding travel experiences,” said Natural Habitat Adventures founder and director Ben Bressler.
From sharing a cup of airag - fermented mare’s milk - with a Mongolian nomad family to riding in a rickshaw through an Indian market to listening to chanting monks in a remote monastery in Bhutan, Natural Habitat Adventures’ new Asia360 travel division will provide authentic cultural journeys and inspiring treks throughout the world’s largest and most diverse continent. Staffed by Asia specialists with decades of field and operations experience and under the guiding vision of Asia360 president Anna Griswold, the company…
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Terrace BC’s Kermodei Tourism Society has announced the release of the 2009 Terrace Travel Guide. The official guide, which highlights Terrace hotels, attractions and surrounding region, was printed on paper certified by the Forestry Stewardship Council (FSC). UV ink was used to print the travel guide, a process which eliminates the emission of petroleum distillates and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that occur in air-drying.
“This publication demonstrates our promise to the environment,” says Luke Houlden, Executive Director for Kermodei Tourism. We value our forests and environment. By using FSC paper and UV ink, Kermodei Tourism has taken huge strides in helping to protect it.”
The City of Terrace is located amidst the thick forests and steep mountain slopes on a series of terraces that were shaped by glaciers thousands of years ago. Terrace is one of the oldest, continuously occupied places in the world. Rich in First Nations history, Terrace is a true multicultural centre…
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Victoria Falls offers hope to the community as Zimbabwe’s answer to ecotourism - an international marathon at Victoria Falls on August 23. Promoter John Addison of Wild Frontiers said, “Where else in the world do you have elephants at the water points, game on the race route, and the post-race party on the banks of the mighty Zambezi River?”
The unusual race crosses the Victoria Falls bridge and into neighboring Zambia and runs relatively flatly through a National Park and World Heritage Site. Themed “Come and Run in a New Zimbabwe,” in past years proceeds have gone to AIDS orphans in the area, and this year, schools in the Victoria Falls township of Chinotimba are set to benefit.
Previous marathons were operated in 2006 and 2007 by a team of experienced logistics personnel and to International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) standards.
While the event did not take place in 2008, partners Wild Frontiers, Wild Horizons, and Safari Par Excellence, supported by the…
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Twice has a nice article about a new wave of flat panel TVs with lower energy consumption. The EPA’s Energy Star 3.0 regulations have push the industry to become more efficient without compromising quality.
“One of the first things the LCD TV Association’s Green TV program did was to show manufacturers that if you used an [...]
Happy Friday everyone!! I don’t know about you, but I was ready for my weekend to start… oh, I don’t know… about two days ago.
I’m hoping to begin a tradition here at Green. Chic. Cheap. of starting out every weekend the eco-friendly way by providing four tips for reducing your environmental impact that will cost you absolutely nothing ((some of them might even save you money)). So, without further ado, here are are your Free Four all Friday tips:
Unplug your electronic devices when they aren’t in use. Devices with power adapters or which still feel warm even after they’ve been switched off for awhile are called “energy vampires”. Generally these devices only draw a few watts per day, but that adds up- energy vampires account for nearly 20% of a household’s electric bill. By unplugging these bad boys when they…
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“Why the heck would I pay for a grocery bag when they’ll happily give me as many as I need for free?”
“49 dollars for an eco-friendly, all natural, sustainably produced hemp pilates mat?! You realize I can get one at Wal-Mart for ten bucks, right?”
In regards to going green the general consensus seems to be that while it is a great idea, it costs way too much.
Pardon my bluntness but that’s a load of crap.
That said, when you add up the price tags on all of those nice bio-degradable bathroom cleansers, 100% organic cotton yoga pants, free range hormone-free all-natural chicken breasts, and CFL bulbs, well… it’s no surprise that so many people in today’s economy forgo an environmentally minded lifestyle in favor of having enough money to put food on the table.
Enter: me.
I’m no expert on the environment or economics or much of anything, really. What I am is a college student, and if there is one thing I do know how to do it’s how to stretch my dollar as… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)
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