Apr
19
Guilt-Free Getaways
April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
From the New York Times:
SURE, you’d like to take a vacation. But with layoffs hitting your best friends and your own company hinting at pay cuts, how can you justify it?
Consider the guilt-free vacation. To counter customers’ reluctance about jetting off for conspicuous consumption during a recession, travel companies are pushing trips that emphasize service, values and personal fulfillment. The message: If there is more involved than frivolous pleasure, you don’t have to feel bad about dropping all that cash on a splashy vacation
Apr
13
Your Voice on Offshore Drilling
April 13, 2009 | 1 Comment
| April 16, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 am |
Thanks to April Orcutt for forwarding this message from the Sierra Club, plus links for more information.
General Info Speaking Guidelines
Dear Concerned Citizens,
Speak Up Now to Save Our Coasts!
Now is your chance to send a clear message that America needs clean energy, not more risky offshore oil drilling.
This Thursday, April 16, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will hold a public hearing in San Francisco to find out how Americans feel about the expanded offshore drilling the oil industry is pushing for. Secretary Salazar needs to see that what Americans really want is clean energy and the jobs that come with it — not more dirty offshore drilling. The most important thing you can do is show up at the hearing and make your voice heard.
Apr
13
Ten Endangered Rivers That Still Have a Chance
April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Wend Magazine’s article, Ten Endangered Rivers That Still Have a Chance, posted by “peter.” (Note: the Sacramento-San Joaquin river system tops the list!)
A tour of the nation’s most endangered rivers—even on paper—is a sobering trip. The conservation group American Rivers today released a list of the top ten rivers in trouble all over America and the variety of locations is rivaled only by the types of threats facing these rivers—from floods to sewage to encroaching highways.
Mar
29
Adopt an Elephant
March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Orphaned elephants at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Thanks to Kaye McKenzie for this link to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, to which you can contribute by adopting or fostering an orphaned elephant or rhino.
Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick (“the first person in the entire world to successfully hand rear newborn fully milk dependent African Elephant orphans”) explains the organization’s philosophy: “Saving wildlife and wilderness is the responsibility of all thinking people. Greed and personal gain must not be permitted to decimate, despoil and destroy the earth’s irreplaceable treasure for its existence is essential to the human spirit and the well-being of the earth as a whole. All life has just one home — the earth — and we as the dominant species must take care of it.”
Mar
3
“Head in the Sky, Feet in the Mud”
March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment
“Head in the Sky, Feet in the Mud”—Conversations with Eco-Innovators
The Institute at the Golden Gate, in collaboration with Conservation International, presents the ongoing lecture series: “Head in the Sky, Feet in the Mud: Conversations with Eco-Innovators.” Begun on September 18, 2008, and continuing into the summer of 2009, the lecture series delves into environmental challenges faced throughout the world, looking into societies from Costa Rica to China. Click to learn more and to watch past lectures online.
Feb
23
Nature Travel
February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Here’s a blog about nature travel; looks interesting.
“Welcome to the world of nature travel. I’ve been traveling for over 2 decades to some of the world’s best wildlife- watching destinations and I’d like to share some of the travel tips and experiences I’ve come across. I work with small communities and conservation groups as they develop wildlife viewing opportunities and community-based destinations for tourists. I hear some great stories and create a few of my own and I’d like to share them with you.”
Feb
23
What’s Up Down Under
February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
My newest blog is What’s Up Down Under, a site about Australia. Most of the content is notes, stories, and photos from the year I lived and worked in Melbourne. In addition to information about my favorite things to do and see in Victoria, I cover a little of Queensland, the Red Center, and the Northern Territory.
Laurie McAndish King
Feb
10
Ecotrotters
February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Ecotrotters.com “where ecology meets travel” targets eco travelers. “Our ECO community includes a photo section where users may upload their personal photo album with pictures from their trips, hotels, countries, and daily lives and comment on each other’s photos and hotels.” Articles include How to offset carbon emissions for travel and living and Is your ecohotel really green? How to tell.
Jan
7
Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth
January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
From a press release: National Geographic Adventure magazine has named Boundless Journeys one of the “Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth” in their most recent issue (February, 2009). A panel of editors, travel writers, and experts judged 248 travel companies, and Boundless Journeys ranked in the top 30 worldwide and top 10 for “Hiking & Trekking” companies. Even more importantly, and something we are very proud of, we received the second highest score given (98.33 out of 100) for client satisfaction. Our loyal following of Boundless Journeys guests is a true testament to the care we take in providing that our journeys exceed expectations each and every time.
Oct
23
Singlehanded Rower Erden Eruç
October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
| November 6, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Rowing for Children: For those of you who have been keeping track of Erden Eruç’s progress as he rowed—singlehanded—from the waters off California to those off Papua New Guinea, you can hear a first-person account of the adventure at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon on November 6. Click on the link to learn more, or to RSVP.
From Erdun: “There will be dinner beginning at 6 p.m. and I will begin my presentation at 7 p.m. about my row across the Pacific Ocean from California shores to the Papua New Guinea waters…Â This singlehanded crossing by oars was especially meaningful for me since we raised about $47,000 for charity during that crossing to benefit the rural primary school children in regional boarding schools in Turkey.
Jan
7
Science Journalism Program Fellowships
January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
| March 1, 2008 | ||
| 1:00 pm |
“Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) invites applications for Science Journalism Program Fellowships. Take one of two hands-on courses: biomedical science (in Woods Hole, MA, June 4-14, 2008) or polar science (in Toolik Lake, Alaska, June 29 – July 12, 2008). A limited number of fellows will spend an additional month at Palmer Station, Antarctica. Deadline: March 1, 2008.” Above info from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Jan
7
Global Climate Change workshop
January 7, 2008 | 2 Comments
| February 6, 2008 | ||
| 1:00 pm |
“The University of South Florida presents Global Climate Change & Sea-level Rise in Florida: A Conversation Between Scientists and the Media on Feb. 6, 2008, to facilitate the flow of scientific information to the public on the predicted effects of global climate change and the susceptibility of coastal Florida to sea-level rise.” Above info is from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Jan
7
Western Enterprise Reporting Fellowship
January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
| January 14, 2008 | ||
| 1:00 pm |
“Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West invites applications from professional journalists for the paid Western Enterprise Reporting Fellowships. Fellows are in residence at Stanford for up to two weeks to develop articles and broadcast series on the environment, politics, and culture of the Western U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Deadline: January 14, 2008.” Above is from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Jan
7
SEJ contest deadline
January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
| April 1, 2008 | ||
| 1:00 pm |
“The Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ)’s annual journalism contest honors outstanding environmental coverage in nine categories, each with a $1,000 prize offered, plus a student category. As well, we are pleased to announce a new book category with a $10,000 prize available. Deadline for SEJ’s seventh annual contest is April 1, 2008.”
Jan
3
Integrated Media
January 3, 2008 | 1 Comment
The New York Times Frugal Traveler series is a great example of integrated travel writing: articles, video, slideshows, readers’ comments/responses, and even a soundtrack. Good examples for those of us who are looking for new ways to market our work.
Jan
3
Brilliant Branding –The Miss Adventuring Show
January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment
| January 3, 2008 | ||
| 12:30 pm | to | 1:00 pm |
I love Carla (no relation) King’s new brand, and I’ll bet her new show will be equally brilliant:
Carla writes, “For years and years many of you have been sending me emails headed Dear Miss Adventuring so I’ve finally taken you up on it and embraced the title. The Miss Adventuring Show on BlogTalkRadio.com is the first step. It launches on Thursday January 3rd at 12:30 pm Pacific Time USA.”The goal of the show is to create a How-To Guide for a Fabulously Misadventurous Lifestyle. Contributing will be guests who are living inspiring, out-of-the-box, live-your-dreams kind of lives. They’re a varied lot, including writers, dancers, entrepreneurs, parents, boaters, bikers, artists, technologists . . . you never know who will turn up.
Dec
29
Galapagos
December 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Here’s a link to Sailing Toward Paradise, a New York Times article by Matthew Power, contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and National Geographic Adventure. “Thousands visit the otherworldly Galápagos each year, but few do it the way Charles Darwin did more than a century ago—approaching from the vast Pacific on a boat powered by the wind.”
Dec
11
Antarctica: Life on the Ice
December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
LIVE FROM ANTARCTICA! Free TeleWebcast
- How do people live and work at the bottom of the Earth where it’s 100 degrees below zero, the sun never shines in the winter, and they are faced with surviving blizzards of epic proportions?
- What is the fate of the Adelie penguins—the bellweather of climate change?
- What is it like to explore unmapped territories where your footprints will outlive you?
Thursday, December 13th, 2008
5pm PST / 8pm EST
Register FREE here: http://www.SusanFoxRogersBookTour.com
Sep
5
Young British Writer Heads to Antarctic
September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This press release from ResponseSource.com provides hope—very slim hope—for those of us who would like to get paid for adventure travel writing.
“The British Antartic Survey has appointed young British writer, Melanie Challenger, as Artist in Residence for International Polar Year 2007-8. She will live in the Antarctic for three months, working alongside the scientists in the region and gaining access to regions of the Antarctic totally closed to the general public. She will stay on board the RSS James Clark Ross.
Sep
1
Drought in Australia
September 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment
“The Murray is the lifeblood of Australia’s farming country, a legendary river that thundered 1,500 miles from the Snowy Mountains to the Southern Ocean. Now, it’s choking to death in the worst drought for a thousand years …”
Read the rest of the 8/5/07 article here.
Aug
29
Green Travel
August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Here’s a special report from the Washington Post on green travel.
Aug
17
News from Laurie Weed
August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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Global Cooling Plagues the U.K.
********************************After an unexpectedly glorious April, the weather in England turned…English. And not just your ordinary cold-and-wet English weather, either, but the coldest, wettest summer on record. None of the plans I’d made for my summer abroad included a glacial monsoon. During the first few weeks of gale-force winds and constant downpour, I tried to adapt. When my coping tactics — ranting, whining, drinking, taking long naps, and cutting my own hair with dog-grooming scissors — had no affect on the suicidal gray skies, I tried waiting it out, but after two solid months of virtual winter, when even the usually stoic natives were breaking down, I could bear it no longer. I hopped a cheap flight to the Iberian Peninsula where a record heat wave was reportedly killing people. If the apocalypse was imminent, I decided I’d rather roast than drown in it.
Aug
5
Global Warming Tourism?
August 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Check out the Washington Post’s special travel section on global warming (July 15, 2007):
Getting Warmer . . .
Alaska’s Icy Bay, Where Glaciers Come to Die and Kayakers Come to Watch
By William Booth
“Granted, it is still a niche market. But if the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to be believed — and why not? — it’s a growth opportunity. The traveler in the very near future might be ready for some global warming tourism. Vacation destinations? You could do the Maldives and watch the sea level rise before your very eyes. Glub glub. Bye-bye, happy island nation. Or perhaps a trip to the African Sahel to experience some scary soil evaporation. Subtle, but profound. Or you can do what we did and journey to Icy Bay in Alaska and just watch the world melt…”
Jun
21
Rowing with Roz
June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
| July 7, 2007 | ||
| 9:30 am | to | 10:00 am |
I have scheduled an interview Roz Savage, who has rowed across the Atlantic Ocean and is leaving San Francisco in July to row—solo—across the Pacific, in a bid to be the first woman to do so. How does Roz do it? And why? How big is her “rowboat”? What does she take along to eat and drink? Why doesn’t Roz use a chase boat? And how in the world does she keep from going mad with boredom? Here’s a 15-minute interview.
The upcoming half-hour interview will be broadcast live on BlogTalkRadio on Saturday, July 7, at 9:30 a.m. Pacific time.
Jun
20
Expedition 360
June 20, 2007 | 1 Comment
Thanks to Kathy Barlow with Travel Insurance Services for sending information about her friend Jason Lewis’ Expedition 360, “an attempt at one of the last great firsts for true circumnavigation: reaching antipodal points on the surface of the globe using only human power (no motors or sails). Bicycles, in-line skates, kayaks, swimming, walking and a unique pedal powered boat are being used by Englishman Jason Lewis and an international team to travel over 40,000 miles across five continents, two oceans and one sea (1994 – 2007).”