Archive for August, 2007

walk the walk

by Angela Dollar - Travel with a Purpose
( August 28th, 2007 )

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Here’s a new perspective to consider when booking a hotel room – walkability!

Thanks to a fabulous new website called Walk Score (http://www.walkscore.com) you can now calculate the optimal use of what they call your “zero pollution transportation machines.”

Here’s how it works: simply type in …

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Would you turn down $5 billion?

by Angela Dollar - Travel with a Purpose
( August 21st, 2007 )

Here’s a story that hits on both the major tenets of sustainable travel—cultural preservation and environmental stewardship.

The Sydney Morning Herald ran a story last month about Jeffery Lee, the sole remaining member of the Djok Clan and senior custodian of his ancestral lands at Koongarra, adjacent to …

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Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

by Angela Dollar - Travel with a Purpose
( August 13th, 2007 )

This is more than just the title of a delightful foreign film by Ang Lee.
These are a few of the words you should learn in the local language of every place you travel!

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Learning just a few words in the local dialect will do wonders for the quality …

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