green living, smart spending
Labor Day means more than the end of summer and a new school year. It also means it’s time to grab ski season deals on lodging, lessons, even airline tickets at your favorite ski and snowboard resorts. These discounts for the 2014/2015 ski season melt away soon: Crested Butte, Colorado The earlier you plan your
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World Cup 2014 German champion team flies home in a Lufthansa plane renamed Fanhansa
Those tiny bottles of booze are big profits for airlines, which are raking in the dough from selling those single-serve bottles of liquor and wine during flights. Profits from in-flight sales of booze was more than $43 million in a four month period in 2014. That’s not nearly as much as they earned from
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Vacation on the cheap in historic Colonial Williamsburg this summer, with a special new Kids Stay, Play and Eat FREE summer package. All kids 12 and under stay and eat free free with parents or grandparents at the Williamsburg Woodlands Hotel & Suites or the Williamsburg Lodge, with rates starting at $79 per adult per
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Panera Bread is dropping artificial coloring, flavoring, sweeteners and preservatives from its bread, including one chemical that helps keep yoga mats soft. The announcement was made in June, 2014, but it will take until the end of 2016 to achieve what its press release describes as its “commitment to clean ingredients”. Panera already has dropped
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Four Seasons Hotels are getting charged up by installing electric vehicle charging stations at some hotels, and making the hot Tesla EV the official hotel car for airport pick-ups and local excursions, starting in summer 2014. Hotels and ski resorts have been partnering with one brand or another for years to promote an “official car”,
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Forget the high prices for Broadway-style shows, four-star meals and ferris wheel or gondola rides in Las Vegas. There’s plenty to see and do for $20 or less. Here are six insider tips in and near Las Vegas that won’t blow your budget: This article is from 2014 Note that prices may have changed since
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The Washington Monument re-opens to the public on May 12, 2014, after being closed for nearly three years to repair earthquake damage. The National Park Service and the Trust for the National Mall will host a re-opening ceremony at 10 a.m. that morning, and the iconic landmark re-opens for tours at 1 p.m. Opening day
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Earth Week green news: IKEA is expanding its international commitment to renewable green energy by buying its first wind farm in the United States. The wind farm is in Hoopestown, Illinois, around 100 miles south of Chicago, and it is Ikea’s largest renewable energy investment anywhere in the world to date. The wind farm purchase
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This year, 2014, Volkswagen is celebrating 65 years since the first Beetle arrived in the United States. Since January 1949, more than 5.5 million Beetle models have been sold in the USA, in three distinctive designs. Here’s some history of the beloved Bug, which became a touchstone for an entire generation and one of the
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