Melbourne is filled with some of the most inventive bridges I’ve seen in the middle of a city center. If you’re a fan of crazy, funky, modern bridges, then this is a great place for you. Even better, the bridges look totally different at night than during the day… it reminds me a lot of […]
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Categories: community, Conservation, Ideas
I promised my friends at Waves for Water I would help them spread the word about the great work they do and how they are helping people and their communities. Here is what they do: People living in impoverished areas die every day from drinking dirty water. While having access to clean water is a […]
Heated when needed, alternative heating.
Categories: Conservation, Environment, Ideas, Planet Earth
People naturally wants to heat the buildings they are in rather than heat themselves. It would be best for the environment as a whole to wear a pair of socks or put on a sweater when at home instead of cracking up the heater. One way to keep warm is to adjust your thinking of […]
Booking online vs. booking agent.
In this day and age we have all experienced booking holidays our at least once or twice online, we have become somewhat virtual masters of our own online destiny, few apart from road trippers ever left home without connecting with at least one flesh-and-blood travel rep. Now it seems like a breeze to booked your […]
Nimmo Wilderness Resort.
Categories: Environment, Ideas, Travel
Nimmo Bay, Central Coast BC. By Kate MacLennan. Photos by Jeremy Koreski. In the wilderness of the BC coast there is a lodge like you’ve never seen before. This is the story about the visionaries behind BC’s hottest wilderness lodge. On the walls of the “Memory Room” at B.C.’s most intimate wilderness retreat, words stretch […]
A Cabin For My Weekend! #8
Tintaldra Victoria, Australia. For the simplicity of the structure, there is something fantastical about the Tintaldra Cabin. It sits in an open field near the Murray River in Victoria, Australia, and every window frames a different landscape. Out one large picture window are the dramatic Australian Alps; rolling hills soften to an open forest in the […]
El consumo te consume.
Categories: community, Conservation, Ideas
El verano pasado me encontraba en el aeropuerto de Houston., mi vuelo, al igual que otros vuelos ese día se retrasó debido a una tormenta eléctrica. Compré un jugo y busqué el lugar más aislado para tener un poco de paz en media del caos. Encontre un rincón solitario, agradable en la terminal A13 sólo […]
Consumption will consume you.
At the Houston airport last summer my flight, like any other flight that day was delayed due to a lightning storm. I grabbed a juice and looked for the most secluded spot I could find. I found success at the terminal landing a nice solitary corner only to hear the announcer another flight has been […]
Mitos que existen en tu mente acerca de temblores!
Categories: community, Environment, Ideas, Planet Earth
No soy un experto en desastres naturales, especialmente terremotos. Yo mismo, he vivido tres de ellos a pesar de que en sí mismo es una anomalía. Cuando converso con amigos ya sea en una barbacoa, fiesta o colegas del trabajo, en última instancia, si terminamos en el tema de desastres parece que siempre terminó contradicciendo […]
There is No Place like Home, The Vada story!
I certainly can appreciate Dorothy’s famous quote from the Wizard of Oz, “there is no place like home”. I experienced this first hand but like any challenging situation you make the best of it and adapt as best as you can. While in SW Ontario I had limited internet, and therefore, I would improvise. Sometimes […]