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About Evelyn Kanter ecoXplorer

ecoXplorer Evelyn Kanter atop Angels Landing trail, Zion National Park

Evelyn Kanter is an experienced, award-winning professional journalist who has been focusing on the environment and consumer rights since long before it was fashionable.

My multi-media background includes magazine and newspaper writer and photographer, radio and television news producer and on-air reporter, guidebook author and editor, and presentation skills coach.

Evelyn Kanter dancing with a dolphin
ecoXplorer Evelyn Kanter dancing with a dolphin

Despite growing up in NYC – or perhaps because of it – I developed an early appreciation for travel, the environment and the outdoors, and write about adventures in the 100+ countries I have visited to ski, scuba dive, hike, bike, raft, spa, prowl ancient and mythical archeological sites, or chill out on the beach or at a sidewalk café.

ecoXplorer Evelyn Kanter on Dune 45 Namibia
ecoXplorer Evelyn Kanter climbs the sand dunes of Namibia

My travel  articles have appeared in USAToday, NY Times, airline inflights Delta Sky and UAL Hemispheres, Budget Travel, Redbook, AAA magazines, New York Post, and on websites including Orbitz, Travelocity, Fodor’s, Yahoo News, AOL Autoblog Green, SmarterTravel.com, HuffingtonPost.com, FoxNews.com, RandMcNally.com and Edmunds.com and SeniorsSkiing.com, where I am currently Managing Editor.

Evelyn Kanter at the top of the gondola at Snowbasin
ecoXplorer Evelyn Kanter Snowbasin

My love of NYC’s subway system notwithstanding, I have written extensively on automobiles and driving, especially safety and value, including for US News & World Report, New York Times, AOL/Autoblog Green, AAA Northeast.

For more than a decade, I wrote a nationally syndicated column, Green Wheeling, published in newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle and on webzines, until syndicator Motor Matters became  a victim of the Pandemic.

I’ve also been known to pull on a helmet to test drive new models around a racetrack at warp speed, or sit happily in the passenger seat as a professional driver shows me when to downshift to cut corners on turns.

 

ecoXplorer Evelyn Kanter rides an Indy 500 car
ecoXplorer Evelyn Kanter does laps at the Indy 500 racetrack

A product of parents who owned and operated neighborhood retail stores in my hometown NYC, I champion consumer rights and issues and small businesses like those of my parents.

Over the years, my articles on negotiating the consumer marketplace have appeared in magazines including Family Circle, Redbook and Associated Press newspapers.

If you want to read some of those articles, click here.

100 Things to Do in NYC Before You Die

I’ve written or contributed to more than one dozen travel guidebooks about New York City, the Hudson Valley, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Caribbean, Canada and skiing, for publishers including Fodor’s, Michelin and DK.

Recent guidebook projects were updating and editing much of Fodor’s Essential Germany, publishing in Summer 2025 (I have been updating this book for 20+ years), and Fodor’s New York City, published in 2023.

The last guidebook with my name on the cover is 100 Things to Do in NYC Before You Die, published by Reedy Press.  It’s filled with memorable, quirky and delicious things to experience in the greatest city on the planet.

My previous NYC guidebook was Peaceful Places in NYC, published by Menasha Ridge Press.

If you want an autographed copy of either one, email me at evelyn@ecoxplorer.com and I’ll send you one.

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I am a member of the International Motor Press Assn. (IMPA), where I have been on the Board for six years, including two as President, now serving as President Emeritus.

I am also an active member of the North American Travel Journalists Assn. (NATJA) , and the North American Snowsports Journalists Assn. (NASJA), and was a longtime member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), where I served two terms on the Board of the Freelance Council.

And I’m a proud graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Go Tigers!ecoXplorer Evelyn Kanter

Before switching to print and the web, I was the consumer reporter for WABC-TV “Eyewitness News” and before that for WCBS-AM “Newsradio 88″ in New York City, investigating and reporting on frauds and dangerous products for the local stations and for their parent networks, ABC News and CBS Radio.

All that on-air experience makes me an expert speaker and panel moderator.

I share those newsroom and on-camera skills as a media interview coach, leading workshops and training seminars for corporations, industry associations, authors, and celebrities normally found on the gossip pages.

We writers know how to interview others, but we need to be coached on how to be on the other side of the desk and be the subject of an interview, especially if the interview is live television. Just ask anybody who has wasted their 15 minutes of fame.

The Beatles lived near Penny Lane in Liverpool. That's me, Evelyn Kanter, posing for a souvenir photo.
ecoXplorer Evelyn Kanter in Liverpool, home of The Beatles.

I’m a lifelong New Yorker, and raised two children as a single parent working mom when I was widowed.

I am fiercely proud of the wonderful, accomplished adults they have grown up to be, and equally proud to have helped pave the way for today’s generation of female broadcasters and bloggers.

Even though I’ve visited some one hundred countries, I always return to New York City, because there’s no place like home. It’s also where the washing machine is.

Please contact me at evelyn@ecoxplorer.com with suggestions about ecoXplorer, including which cars and travel destinations you would like to know more about, and for invitations to have me speak to your group or meeting.

Enjoy the journey!

Evelyn Kanter

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ecoXplorer is published by Evelyn Kanter, an award-winning journalist with 20+ years of experience as a newspaper and magazine writer, radio & TV news producer & reporter and guidebook author – all focusing on travel, automotive, the environment and your rights as a consumer.

Evelyn Kanter is the President Emeritus of the International Motor Press Assn. (IMPA), a past Board Member of a prestigious professional group for travel journalists, and a member of several other top international organizations of journalists.

Evelyn Kanter is Senior Editor of SeniorsSkiing, which focuses on the 50+ outdoor enthusiast.

Contact me at evelyn@ecoxplorer.com or evelyn@evelynkanter.com.

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