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We had a remarkably good time this week, generally given a underline talk was with a favorite Green Reaper, Elizabeth Fournier, green wake director and author of All Men Are Cremated Equal: My 77 Blind Dates. Seriously. You gotta adore a lady who has a book with this title! She introduced us to a new eco-friendly approach of cremation that sounds (although some of a contention was a small some-more minute than we might have needed) like a good choice to normal cremation. Did we know that 16% of all mercury wickedness in a atmosphere is a approach outcome of cremation?!? Hope you’ll listen to a talk to learn some-more about this intensity choice famous as bio-cremation, resomation, or water resolution. Elizabeth has a miraculous approach of creation an mostly ungainly theme interesting, interesting and a lot reduction creepy.

Green Diva Lisa on a Sustainable Highway

Green Diva Lisa did a good news on a new highway outing she took to Austin, Texas. She had taken a event to write about her knowledge as a seasoned highway soldier and offering tips on how to be as green, tolerable and healthy as probable when on a large highway.

Here are a integrate of tips for tolerable highway tripping:

• Gas – find out how to be a many fuel fit with whatever automobile we expostulate on EarthGarage.com and check out a new app for anticipating a best gas prices while on a road: GasBuddy.
• Food - I generally don’t eat a lot of full dishes on a road, though we like to stop for breakfast. It tough to screw adult eggs, bacon and fruit. This outing we went to the Waffle House once (remind me not to do that again) and Cracker Barrel once. The other place that we will cruise interlude is Chipotle’s, with serves food with firmness ancillary internal farmers and offers weed fed meats and more.
• Snacks – The good thing about being on a highway is that we unequivocally aren’t on any eating schedule. You get to eat when we are inspired and eat what we are in a mood for during a time.  So, we keep a accumulation of healthy choices. we move along an eco-friendly transport crater and bamboo or immaculate cutlery that we only rinse and re-use.
• Hyration - Staying hydrate can assistance keep a minds pointy on prolonged trips. Many of we know how The Green Divas feel about bottle water. If not, listen to a Sleeping Naked is Green podcast on bottled water and/or review GD Meg’s recent post about bottled water.  My favorite choice to shopping bottled H2O is a BPA giveaway H2O bottle with a built in filter called the Bobble Bottle.

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Patricia Reaney

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12:41 p.m. CDT, March 30, 2012

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Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:37pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) – With 365 beaches, one for each day of a year, Antigua in a Leeward Islands is deliberate one of gems of a Eastern Caribbean.

Palm trees and sensuous foliage line a primitive shores of a island, that was once an critical bottom for Britain. Today, Antigua is a stop for journey ships, that wharf in a collateral St John’s, and a sailing and yachting destination.

With a oppulance resorts, hotels and guest houses tourism is a many critical industry.

Although it merits a longer stay, visitors can still make a many of a brief revisit to Antigua, that is only 108 block miles, and has about 68,000 residents.

FRIDAY

Unless roving by boat, visitors to Antigua arrive during V.C. Bird International Airport in a capital, St. John’s, that has approach flights from U.S. and European cities and is a brief expostulate to a resorts on a island’s western Caribbean seaside or a eastern Atlantic coast.

Take a minivan or cab to your hotel, or if we are formulation to unequivocally learn Antigua lease a automobile for your stay. Driving is on a left side of a road. The island is not really large, a roads are paved and good noted and Antiguans are happy to offer directions.

6:15 p.m. – After settling into your review or hotel suffer a cocktail on a beach while examination a object set over a Caribbean and afterwards take a wander on a white sandy seaside before dinner.

8:00 p.m. – Time to eat. Some resorts offer comprehensive stays including dishes and many have restaurants catering to their guests, though eateries charity all forms of cuisine can be found around a island.

If we are not eating during your resort, conduct to Nelson’s Dockyard, that was named after British Admiral Horatio Nelson, on a southern finish of a island and try a Admiral’s Inn (460-1027 1153). It offers general and West Indian cuisine and internal seafood.

10:00 p.m. – The night is still immature so conduct to Abracadabra (460 2701), an Italian grill only outward Nelson’s Dockyard that transforms into an outside nightclub in a early hours.

SATURDAY

9:00 – After an early morning breakfast, conduct to a beach for a float in a transparent bluish waters of a Caribbean. All of a beaches on Antigua are open to a public.

Many resorts situated on a beach have giveaway kayaks and windsails for guests, and there are copiousness of locals charity jet-ski and catamaran rides or diving and snorkeling trips for a some-more adventurous.

12:00 p.m. – Take a mangle from a object and conduct south on Valley Road, that runs along a southwestern bend of a island, to Deadwood Beach, one of a island’s many pleasing beaches, where we can lunch during a internal grill right on a beach.

Try a tuna or conch salad and internal fruit juices such as guava and tamarind.

1:00 p.m. – After lunch we competence wish to try something totally different, expostulate serve south along a seashore highway until we strech Fig Tree Drive, a circuitous highway into a rainforest that is lined with sensuous foliage including banana, guavas, mango and orange trees.

Stop during a tip of a highway during a core for a Antigua Rainforest Canopy Tour (562-6363), where Rangers lead visitors on zip-lines opposite a fill each day solely Sundays.

Not for a faint-hearted, a full canopy debate takes about 2.5 hours. Bookings are recommended. If time is singular there is a 75 notation debate on 9 zip lines adult to 360 feet and 300-feet long.

A 99-year-old male is a oldest to finish a tour, according to a rangers. The debate is not endorsed for profound women or people with back, knee or shoulder problems or those with a heart condition.

If traversing a fill on zip lines fills we with dread, we can still suffer a fantastic views and have a splash or break during a bar/cafe or observation veranda and strike a present shop.

6:00 p.m. – After a lovely showering and change of garments during your hotel watch another implausible nightfall before dinner.

8:00 p.m. – Head to Dickenson Bay during a northwestern finish of a island where several resorts including Sandals Grande Antigua Resort Spa, Antigua Village, Halcyon by Rex Resorts and a Buccaneer Beach Club are situated.

The Bay House Restaurant (462 1223) during Trade Winds Hotel on a mountain that overlooks a brook serves general dishes with a Caribbean twist. If we cite a grill closer to a beach, try Coconut Grove Restaurant Beach Bar (462 1538), that also has a happy hour from 4:30-7 p.m. Reservations are endorsed during all a restaurants.

10:00 p.m. – For late night party a Rush Night Club (562 7874) during circuitously Runaway Bay facilities Hip Hop, RR and other forms of music.

Visitors anticipating to try their fitness during Black Jack, roulette, poker or on a container machines should conduct to King’s Casino (462 1727) in Heritage Quay in St John’s. It is open until 4:00 a.m. 7 days a week.

SUNDAY

9:00 a.m. – After an early light breakfast expostulate to St John’s for a travel around a city and some shopping. Visit a shops during Heritage Quay and also Historic Redcliffe Quay during a bottom of Redcliffe Street nearby a journey boat pier.

11:00 – St John’s Cathedral, between Newgate and Long Streets, was creatively assembled around 1683 and totally rebuilt in 1843 following an earthquake. Although it is now sealed for restoration, visitors can travel around a commanding Baroque-style structure and perspective a commemorative stones around a cathedral.

12:00 – Drive to a southern finish of a island to Shirley Heights Lookout (728 0636) for their Sunday Barbeque Party finish with steel bands. It is a tradition that has been going for 30 years. The views are monumental and it is an ideal stop before streamer to a airfield for a lapse home.

(Reporting by Patricia Reaney)

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In this week’s transport tips, we are articulate let cars. We’ll uncover you how to get a best rates, and what we should cruise if we are renting for a vacation or business trip.

When making a reservation, ask if a let automobile association has any member discounts. For example, right now if we are a AAA member Hertz will take $50 off  your weekly let rate.

Think about where we wish to collect adult a car, a airfield or your hotel. Depending on a city we choose, it competence be easier and a bit reduction costly depending on that plcae we use.

Don’t compensate twice for your insurance. The let automobile association will offer coverage, though before we leave home, check with your word provider or even your credit label company, we competence already have coverage in place for rentals.

If you are renting a automobile internationally, we competence wish to get what is called an general pushing permit. It is a permit good in 150 countries. Head to the AAA website and we can request online. The cost is only $15, and some let automobile companies in some countries will need it.

 

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We’re all time travelers, really. The thing is that we usually pierce in one direction, and–in genuine time–very solemnly during that.

If we imagination a thought of zipping brazen in time to see if electric cars unequivocally take off, you’ll need some kind of Time Machine.

Guess what? My favorite English musician, Thomas Dolby, has only a thing: ‘The Time Capsule’.

I jumped into my all-electric Tesla Roadster to locate adult with Dolby on his U.S.  tour, to see if we could join adult a time plug and take it away.

It turns out that a steampunk-inspired Time Capsule isn’t utterly what I’d hoped.

But Dolby himself incited out to be a lot some-more wakeful of electric cars than we competence have guessed. In fact, he’s an aged master on a topic.

Thomas Dolby: My mother is a bit of an eco-nut, and when we were vital in Los Angeles in a late Eighties, we started to demeanour around. A good crony of cave had a few electric conversions, and in 1990 we acquired a converted Ford Escort with 14 batteries in it.

We gathering it as a second automobile for about 4 years. It achieved well, yet it’d delayed down on hills a bit and spasmodic cocktail a fuse. But we felt flattering smug!

How was life in LA with an electric automobile behind then?

TD: It was deliberate utterly geeky; LA is sincerely materialistic. With all that cheuffer parking, there’s always that impulse where you’ve been to some ‘event’ and everybody is dressed adult and comes outward to get their automobile during a same time.

If your automobile is a initial to lift adult and we know it’s not as swanky as a guy’s station subsequent to you, we get these arrange of butterflies in your stomach.

But we bypassed all that since ours would expostulate adult and would be totally silent, and a rather confused looking cheuffer would get out not meaningful utterly either he should spin it off or not!

Invariably it’d take him 10 mins to figure out even how to start it up.

It sounds like we enjoyed a eco benefits; did friends and family conclude it?

TD: I consider we substantially shabby a few people.

Back in a U.K., were we means to lift on with a eco lifestyle?

TD: When we came behind to live in a U.K., we indispensable a recording studio, though it had to be powered from renewable energy–so that’s what we did. My studio is housed in a boat moored during a behind of my residence called a ‘Nutmeg of Consolation’. 

We have solar panels and a breeze turbine on a roof powering a laptops that we use. We have a Toyota Prius hybrid as a family car, that unequivocally suits a needs.

Unfortunately Dolby’s Time Capsule couldn’t give me a glance into a future, though it does residence a cold video recording apartment that–with a assistance of Laura, a Time Capsule operator–allows visitors to record 30-second video messages.

Those messages will be gathered into a video and placed in a time plug for 1,000 years.

Whomever or whatever inhabits a earth by afterwards will be means to hear a thoughts and feelings of a competition that inhabited it that prolonged ago.

After a gig, Dolby took a run in a Tesla to see how it compared to his 1990s Escort.

TD: It’s not most like a aged Ford Escort. That automobile didn’t do 0 to 60 mph in underneath 4 seconds!

There are a few some-more dates on Dolby’s tour; locate adult with one of them to record your summary to a future.

Select messages will seem on Time Capsule TV.  we available mine, though that summary is between me and a future.

Michael Thwaite is an electric-vehicle disciple who lives in New Jersey and works in information technology. He also runs the Tesla Motors Club. When he was 12 years old, he hoped that when he grew up, we’d all be pushing electric cars. More than 30 years later, they’re finally here.

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We’re all time travelers, really. The thing is that we usually pierce in one direction, and–in genuine time–very solemnly during that.

If we imagination a thought of zipping brazen in time to see if electric cars unequivocally take off, you’ll need some kind of Time Machine.

Guess what? My favorite English musician, Thomas Dolby, has only a thing: ‘The Time Capsule’.

I jumped into my all-electric Tesla Roadster to locate adult with Dolby on his U.S.  tour, to see if we could join adult a time plug and take it away.

It turns out that a steampunk-inspired Time Capsule isn’t utterly what I’d hoped.

But Dolby himself incited out to be a lot some-more wakeful of electric cars than we competence have guessed. In fact, he’s an aged master on a topic.

Thomas Dolby: My mother is a bit of an eco-nut, and when we were vital in Los Angeles in a late Eighties, we started to demeanour around. A good crony of cave had a few electric conversions, and in 1990 we acquired a converted Ford Escort with 14 batteries in it.

We gathering it as a second automobile for about 4 years. It achieved well, yet it’d delayed down on hills a bit and spasmodic cocktail a fuse. But we felt flattering smug!

How was life in LA with an electric automobile behind then?

TD: It was deliberate utterly geeky; LA is sincerely materialistic. With all that cheuffer parking, there’s always that impulse where you’ve been to some ‘event’ and everybody is dressed adult and comes outward to get their automobile during a same time.

If your automobile is a initial to lift adult and we know it’s not as swanky as a guy’s station subsequent to you, we get these arrange of butterflies in your stomach.

But we bypassed all that since ours would expostulate adult and would be totally silent, and a rather confused looking cheuffer would get out not meaningful utterly either he should spin it off or not!

Invariably it’d take him 10 mins to figure out even how to start it up.

It sounds like we enjoyed a eco benefits; did friends and family conclude it?

TD: I consider we substantially shabby a few people.

Musician Thomas Dolby’s

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Back in a U.K., were we means to lift on with a eco lifestyle?

TD: When we came behind to live in a U.K., we indispensable a recording studio, though it had to be powered from renewable energy–so that’s what we did. My studio is housed in a boat moored during a behind of my residence called a ‘Nutmeg of Consolation’. 

We have solar panels and a breeze turbine on a roof powering a laptops that we use. We have a Toyota Prius hybrid as a family car, that unequivocally suits a needs.

Unfortunately Dolby’s Time Capsule couldn’t give me a glance into a future, though it does residence a cold video recording apartment that–with a assistance of Laura, a Time Capsule operator–allows visitors to record 30-second video messages.

Tesla Roadster, Laura, musician Thomas Dolby, Pandora – Mar 2012

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Those messages will be gathered into a video and placed in a time plug for 1,000 years.

Whomever or whatever inhabits a earth by afterwards will be means to hear a thoughts and feelings of a competition that inhabited it that prolonged ago.

After a gig, Dolby took a run in a Tesla to see how it compared to his 1990s Escort.

TD: It’s not most like a aged Ford Escort. That automobile didn’t do 0 to 60 mph in underneath 4 seconds!

There are a few some-more dates on Dolby’s tour; locate adult with one of them to record your summary to a future.

Select messages will seem on Time Capsule TV.  we available mine, though that summary is between me and a future.

Michael Thwaite is an electric-vehicle disciple who lives in New Jersey and works in information technology. He also runs the Tesla Motors Club. When he was 12 years old, he hoped that when he grew up, we’d all be pushing electric cars. More than 30 years later, they’re finally here.

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I would like to tell we about a efficacy of a engaging named Magic Vision control wiper/washer complement nonetheless as we know, a sleet in Spain stays especially on a plain. Throughout a ride, a comfortable object that kick down on my balding conduct rendered it redundant.

But I’m told a complement cleans a windshield nonetheless disrupting a driver’s margin of view. The laser-cut wiper blade has dual liquid channels on a left and right fed by 160 nozzles. When in action, a washer liquid is practical in a instruction of a wiper arm movement. It also takes into comment environmental conditions when selecting a volume of spray. In a summer, a shower is adequate to mislay a highway dirt that accumulates during a lissome drive. In a B.C. downpour, a heavier volume is compulsory to mislay a collected crud. And a exhilarated complement melts a icy plod on a darkest winter mornings.

A 429-hp 4.7-litre V8 with twin turbos and approach fuel injection is underneath a hood or a carp as Europeans call it. It replaces a incomparable nonetheless reduction absolute 382-hp 5.5-litre V8.

If a breeze could get to you, it would blow off your wig off during a pedal to a steel takeoff that launches we to 100 km/h in 4.5 seconds. Impressive.

A 7-speed involuntary transmission, dubbed a 7G-TRONIC by Mercedes, is a delight. It’s manageable and well-spoken even underneath a complicated foot. In a competition mode, regulating a paddles, it did reason a selected reduce rigging adult until a red-line before automatically changeable adult a notch. Not something, we consider many of a customary 50-year-old owners would exam nonetheless an engaging examination nevertheless.

The ABC (active physique control) suspension, customary transport in Canada, keeps physique hurl in check. The competition mode stiffens adult a cessation and a comfort mode a opposite, nonetheless we found a disproportion hardly discernible. Perhaps that speaks to a altogether effectiveness.

ABC takes a flattering organisation hold of a driver, a chair sides shutting in on we in a wilder turns and change of direction, compulsory while holding on a slight and twisty Spanish roads.

Mercedes sees a categorical competitors in a Porsche 911, a BMW 6 Series and a Jaguar XK. we doubt a 911 owners would select a Merc, nimble nonetheless it is. All around, it does smoke-stack adult good opposite a other rivals.

It performs good on a open highway and nonetheless would be excellent for bland use in an civic centre. A 20 per cent-plus alleviation in fuel efficiency, aided by a well-spoken automobile stop/start system, is also really attractive, no matter how well-heeled one competence be.

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By LAUREN WEBER

When Boris Siperstein travels for work from his home in Austin, Texas, he mostly does so with a folding bicycle tucked underneath his arm.

He expensed a $180 Dahon model, bought on sale, to his private-equity firm, though biking to meetings in such locales as New York City, Mumbai and Mauritius, he says, has saved his association a few thousand dollars in cab fare. Mr. Siperstein, 38 years old, was also famous to nap on a building when he visited a company’s former Manhattan domicile rather than compensate ceiling of $200—his personal cutoff for a hotel.

Ryan Collerd for The Wall Street Journal

Boris Siperstein brings his folding bicycle to get around on business trips. Pictured, in Philadelphia.

And forget about drifting business class. He folds his 6’3″ support into a manager seat—even on 16-hour hauls to India, where many of his company’s investments are based.

“I would never in my wildest dreams spend an additional thousand dollars to stay in a hotel room that’s somewhat some-more gentle than a bed we get in a $100 hotel room,” he says. “Why would we do that with an airline seat?”

Welcome to a universe of expense-account tightwads. Citing all from robe to element to joining to their employer’s bottom line, these workers go out of their approach to keep losses low, staying in bonus hotels, irreverence off room use and scouring a Web for inexpensive flights.

In an epoch of belt-tightening, employers would presumably be anxious with staff who scrimp on transport and party expenses, that normal 8% to 12% of corporate budgets, according to investigate organisation Aberdeen Group. But that isn’t always a case. Some managers don’t care, while other bosses consider it peculiar or worry about how clients will react.

One of 3 partners during his Hoboken, N.J.-based firm, Mr. Siperstein says his thriftiness has spasmodic lifted “perception issues” among a partners. But he sees it as a rival advantage for a firm. “If a patron doesn’t see what this says about me, afterwards they’re blank one of a things we move to a table.”

Still, many of them usually consider “Boris is a opposite kind of bird,” says Mr. Siperstein, who describes his income as “comfortable,” though is gangling with his possess income too, gripping a hurl of toilet paper in his automobile for spills and runny noses, rather than a “packaged imagination hankie box,” and frying adult anything in a fridge that is in risk of spoilage.

On business trips to Shanghai, Christopher Kao, a videogame writer for digital party organisation Break Media, says he skipped foreigner-friendly restaurants, instead picking adult orange extract and dumplings during internal preference shops, customarily for reduction than $2.

“My responsibility reports had profits for $2.11, $1.45, 71 cents. I’m certain a HR people suspicion it was unequivocally funny,” he says. At one hotel where his group stayed, any room had soaking machines. So Mr. Kao, 31, spent a Sunday morning soaking his clothes, “sitting in my underwear and reading ‘Hunger Games’,” rather than promulgation them out to be professionally cleaned.

Mr. Kao says co-workers commented on his gangling choices—”You’re braver than me,” he recalls one observant of his gusto for internal food stands.

He was laid off in Jan when Break sealed a U.S. gaming operations to concentration on core Web properties.

Andy Tu, Break’s clamp trainer of marketing, says a association has “a corporate ethic to be obliged with a spending” and appreciates gangling employees.

David Payne, 41, travels extensively in his pursuit as agreement tutor for a Brooklyn program firm, though says he is too inexpensive to have hotels do his laundry. For a while, he cleared garments in a bathtub.

Now he travels with a 32-oz. or 64-oz. bottle of antiseptic in his checked bag, and heads to coin-operated Laundromats. He estimates he spends $10 per outing this way, compared with $30 or $40 for hotel service.

Does he consider executives value his efforts? “I don’t consider they notice one approach or a other,” he says. The usually time he got a reaction, he says, was when an accountant called to contend he wouldn’t be reimbursed for dryer sheets and other laundry-related expenses. When he explained, he says a accountant relented.

For gangling employees, spending can incite what some economists call “pain of paying,” a penetrating annoy each time their money or credit label leaves their wallets. “It’s such a well-learned response that it’s tough to close off” even on an responsibility account, says Scott Rick, a highbrow during a University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

But some contend a incentive can go too far.

In his autobiography, “The Mind of Wall Street,” a renowned, late financier Leon Levy recounted a time he and a co-worker were pulling to a essential assembly with a California regulator. Mr. Levy beheld their automobile was low on gas, though his co-worker insisted on pulling another 30 miles to strech a bonus station. “Of course, we ran out of gas,” he wrote.

Tim Gardner, executive of operations during Vancouver, Wash.-based Bergstrom Nutrition, skips convention-sponsored hotels for trade shows, instead acid Priceline for lodgings during “half a price.” On a new patron revisit to Boca Raton, Fla., he asked his employer to repay him for usually half of his airfare to Florida—because he tacked on a pleasure outing to a U.S. bottom during Guantanamo Bay, where a crony was stationed.

When he drives to meetings, Mr. Gardner, 55, calculates a improved value: regulating his automobile and requesting a federally dynamic payment of 55 cents per mile, or renting a automobile with mileage included. If he uses his car, he subtracts a 16 miles round-trip from his home to his office.

Asked about Mr. Gardner’s gangling ways, Bergstrom President Jim Hughes, said, “Sometimes we worry until we get to know someone and know their habits. It’s usually who he is as an individual. He’s obliged and he takes good caring of association funds.”

Sometimes it’s a trainer pulling impassioned measures. When Jeff Yeager was executive executive of a American Canoe Association from 1991 until 2002, he “endlessly lectured” his staff about staying with a group’s volunteers and house members when they traveled. “They hated it, though a volunteers were thrilled,” he says.

Mr. Yeager, who now writes books about low-cost living, celebrated a process himself. “I can’t tell we how many house members we assured to opinion my approach since we was sleeping in their gangling bedroom.”

A chronicle of this essay seemed Mar. 30, 2012, on page A1 in some U.S. editions of The Wall Street Journal, with a headline: Expense-Account Tightwads Take a Road Less Expensive.

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