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Green Hybrid Tours to Alcatraz: Wind and Solar for Your Trip

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Alcatraz now has Hornblower tours with a fully green boat. The boat uses wind turbines, solar panels, and hybrid batteries to power many of the ship’s functions. With over 1.4 million people visiting Alcatraz every year - this is a great step to keeping San Francisco Bay clean and pollution free. Many [...]

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Green Vegas: 5 Best ways to minimize your vacation’s “carbon footprint”.

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

I’m in Las Vegas for a conference of web publishers.   Las Vegas has to be one of the driest; most barren; and sometimes smoggy places you can imagine.  With all the focus on money and greed - I thought I’d try to see just how little environmental impact my vacation in Las Vegas could have.  [...]

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