green living, smart spending
As always, four-season resorts from East to West were busy this summer upgrading existing chairlifts and gondolas or adding entirely new ones to open acres of new terrain for skiing and riding for the 2022/23 ski and snowboard season.. If you are a downhill enthusiast – as I am – check out these best new
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The impending mandated federal budget cuts, also known as sequestration, are a disaster for US national parks, wildlife, and for those of us who love the outdoors. The impending mandated federal budget cuts, also known as sequestration, are a disaster for US national parks, wildlife, and for those of us who love the outdoors. Sequestration
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California B&Bs have gone green with a variety of innovative and eco-friendly practices, including using solar power and geothermal energy systems to reduce electric costs, and providing electric car charging stations for guests arriving in plug-in hybrid and pure electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Volt, Nissan Leaf and Mini E. In Santa Cruz, The
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Wine tasting tours are a rite of spring, summer and fall in California wine country — but your shouldn’t drink and drive. Here are three interesting alternatives: In the Northern California region promoted as Shasta Cascade, Air Shasta now offers wine tasting at Anselmo Vineyards by helicopter. It’s a two-hour excursion — a 30-minute chopper
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