Fun ride treking from Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh—on the country’s most popular canal towpath and the Northeast’s premier rail-trail. The 335-mile tour occurs June 23–30, 2007, and will lead 500 cyclists on the ride of their lives on the longest multi-purpose trail in the country. Twenty-two meals are included. Accommodations are either in your supplied tent or a vendor supplied tent (they do all the putting up and taking down) Campsites may be open fields, town parks or standard campgrounds.
Get all the details online at Rails to Trails

Travel out ot one of the most beautiful places in the USA, to Big Sur, California. Spend a week working with the US Forest Service improving eroded trails. This area is prone to fires and brush clearing may be added to the agenda.
Price: $395 includes all meals and camping at Divide Camp, an area located among mature pine and oak trees near the junction with the Pine Ridge and Carmel River Trails. April 28-May 5, 2007 More info at SierraClub.org

Work in Skaftafell National Park in southeast Iceland constructing and maintaining footpaths in the National Park. These paths help to protect the area’s fragile ecology from the impact from tourism. The work is strenuous, so this trip is great for the physically fit types. Accommodations - you will be sleeping in your own tent but hot showers and a base camp provide space for meals and conversation.

GB £480 ex flights - more details at Responsible Travel

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.

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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.

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