“Unsung heroes of the environment.” The “green Nobel Prize.” Eco-Ocean Awards, eco-art competitions, and eco-school certifications. If you’re even slightly interested in environmental news, you can’t help but hear and read a lot in the media about the recognition given to individuals, organizations, and entities that do something — almost anything, it seems, by the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Travel’
What are YOUR Top Ten Travel Moments?
I’m usually too busy to watch television, so it’s perhaps not surprising I didn’t know who Samantha Brown was, when a friend told me she had her dream job. I may be the only travel addict who was not aware that Brown hosts a popular show on the Travel Channel chronicling her peripatetic pursuits, [...]
The Things You Carry
Spirit Airlines will become the first carrier in U.S. history to charge fliers for putting carry-on bags into its overhead storage bins when it institutes its new fee schedule on August 1, 2010. If this new plan succeeds, other airlines are sure to follow with their own set of fees for using an overhead storage [...]
