Beautiful calendar filled with inspiring travel photos. Designed so that the photos can be reused and sent off as a postcard. All profits from sales of the calendar are donated to Green Wifi.
Price is EUR 10. (about $13.00 US dollars) at Travellerspoint
About Green Wifi
Green WiFi in partnership with Inveneo provides solar powered Internet access and communications to communities in developing areas where electric power is nonexistent or unreliable. Green WiFi was founded on the belief that the welfare of the world depends on providing the 3 billion people living in these conditions with access to the world’s information.
[Via Sustainablog]

Join the University of Vermont Educational and Cultural Tours and learn about fair trade, organic, and shade-grown coffee. Open to the public, this tour is for coffee enthusiasts, coffee professionals, students, environmentalists, and social justice advocates. Participants will gain hands-on experience and first-hand insight into the day-to-day reality of small coffee producing families and their communities. Tour members will observe why coffee is related to some of the most urgent and critical issues of our times. Join us to see why seemingly unrelated subjects – from illegal immigration and illegal drugs, to the decline of migratory songbirds and the disintegration of farming communities in Latin America – all come together around coffee production and the cup of coffee we consumers choose to drink.
More info at Coffee to Go
$1445 plus airfare (after November 15, 2006)

“Hotelito” is a small, luxurious, getaway intent on keeping the local environment as close to natural as nature intended. Solar energy supplies the power used to run the hotel. As evening approaches, candles light the guest rooms (each guest room is also supplied with a flashlight) and restaurant where dinner is served. Luminaries provide light along the pathways that weave throughout the resort.

Just sixty miles south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, “Hotelito” is located on a wetland estuary between the Sierra Madre Mountains and the beautiful Pacific Ocean. It is home to sea turtles and over 150 species of birds. As a guest you will have the opportunity to closely view the birds, and, perhaps witness the baby sea turtles making their way to the sea for the first time.

As a luxury resort, all amenities are available for you. The difference here is how owner and creator Marcello Murzilli has chosen to deliver them; with care and attention to the natural surroundings, giving back to the local economy, and providing a truly enchanting off-the-grid resort. GreatGreen gives Hotelito 4 Big Green Thumbs Up!

For Rates, Reservations, all information visit: www.hotelito.com

Home made vegetarian food and outstanding vistas along glorious coastlines with quiet roads and plush accommodations in England and Wales.  Expect to bike around 30 miles a day.  Three and seven day trips are available.  These seem like a down to earth solid group with a great reputation.  (in business for 26 years).

More info on their website at http://www.bicycle-beano.co.uk/

P.S.  a beano is “a merry time or spree”. The word beano is derived from beanfeast,
an annual celebration which included a meal of beans and bacon.

technorati tags:bicycle+vacation, ecofriendly+vacation

Sustainable Energy in Motion Bicycle Tour – tours are set up for traveling one, two, or three weeks. Riders will visit organic farms, a land trust, a visionary community school, and also have an opportunity to join in on several educational hands-on activities with Oregon’s best nature building communities. The tours are designed to challenge and inspire, empower with knowledge of what is possible, and facilitate incredible social change. A third to half of the time is spent biking with the rest spent in discussion, doing service projects or resting from all the riding! By exploring Oregon on a bicycle, you can use your time pedal-powering to change the world.
Online at Democracy Bike

The premiere issue of SusTravel Magazine: BelloMundo is now available online as a free download. What is SusTravel? So glad you asked!! According to BelloMundo, it is like organic food – free of artificial colouring, tastier, authentic, real. Travel that is better for you as well as the Earth, and in the long run for all of us.
Online at http://www.sustravel.co.uk/magazine/issue_1

Bespoke Experience have opened their first lodge and expect to open their second in December 2007. The first, Guludo Beach Lodge is located in Northern Mozambique in an area of extreme poverty with the expectation that it will maximize the possible benefits to the surrounding areas. Bespoke Experience considers themselves a fair trade tourism company in which they maximize tourisms’ direct benefits by training and employing local workers, buying local products, and making sure that the largest percentage possible of the holiday cost and the original investment stays in the host region and country.

Galudo Beach Lodge is located on the Indian Ocean on one of the most beautiful beaches in Mozambique.

5% of accommodation fee goes to SERF, Social & Environmental Regeneration Fund.

More information at Galudo Beach Lodge.

Great news for Green Travelers!! On August 28th, both Expedia.com and Travelocity, announced they are offering new options supporting responsible travel.

Expedia.com is now offering the option at checkout to purchase a TerraPass that funds enough clean energy to balance out the CO2 emissions caused by your flights.

Travelocity.com is offering a similar option at checkout with the proceeds going to Go Zero.

More information on TerraPass
More information on Go Zero

“Green” Hotels are properties whose managers are eager to institute programs that save water, save energy and reduce solid waste–while saving money–to help PROTECT OUR ONE AND ONLY EARTH!
GreenHotels.com

Treeflights.com is a new website that just launched with the great slogan “you fly – we plant”. For £10.00 (that’s $18.44 for you Yanks), Treeflights.com will plant a tree for you in one of three designated planting sites in Mid-Wales; Pantglas (Llanddewi Brefi), Ffos-y-ffin (Llanfair Clydogau) & Pant-y-pond wood (Llanybydder). They plant a variety of types of trees using standard organic principles. Often the saplings are tended with a mulch mat of recycled polythene. Plenty more info on their website at:

http://www.treeflights.com/