Lill’s List is now in the Green category at alltop.com along with some other very good eco-sites. Like the other alltop.com categories, Guy Kawasaki has attracted the cream of the crop and some other sites that I hadn’t heard of until they showed up on Alltop’s radar. Now, several of them have become regular stops on my daily trip around the Green web.
I’ve found that Green at Alltop goes very well with organic Irish Breakfast tea and whole wheat toast spread with Irish butter and homemade wild Maine blueberry jam. It’s also where I found a green site with a link to a green maven. Well, it is St. Patrick’s Day, but that’s not why this maven is green. This Green Maven is a search engine you can use to find websites, products and services that are environmentally responsible. It’s where I started my search for lodging for my annual spring trip.
Every year, around my birthday, Daughter and I take a trip to VT and NH. Money is an issue, especially this year when gas prices and everything else are rising faster than Geekdaddy’s paycheck and my freelance pittance. My challenge is to find a place to stay at a price we can afford. In addition to that though, if I can, I’d like to stay where the owners care about the environment as much as they care about their guests.
I was some chuffed when my search turned up a whole page of helpful links to hotels, motels, inns and B&Bs. In what I took for an auspicious sign from the Travel Gods, the first link was for sustainable lodging in NH. Within minutes, I had found the perfect motel in the area we plan to visit. What’s more, the price was well within my budget and about the same as a major chain motel would be.
Of course, we’ll have to eat, so I clicked on the Sustainable NH dining link and found some eco-conscious eateries in the area. I noticed that there were plenty of vegetarian and vegan options, although that’s not a consideration for Daughter and I who are serious omnivores. (Pay no attention to the rumor that we’ve become chocolatarians. Why, it hardly makes up half of our diet when we’re on vacation.)
I’d like to say that we’ll be driving a new hybrid or electric car on our trip, but that’s still in the future for us. We try to make up for our not-so-great-on-gas-mileage car by only making one trip a week to do errands and hit the libraries, and by keeping our vacation trips down to two a year. Plus, we try to stay where we don’t need to use the car very often, and we walk whenever possible.
My dream for the future is to live where I don’t have to use a car to get to the basic necessities of life, but that’s not going to happen until we can get out from under the rapidly depreciating pile of sticks that pretends to shelter us from Maine’s weather tantrums. Until then, I’ll be as green as I can be in other ways and keep the car trips to a minimum. And I’ll stop in at Alltop.com to check out developments in the Eco-Sphere.
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