travel
In 1968, Edward Abbey published Desert Solitaire… Read the rest. The memoir chronicles his season spent in Arches National Park as a park ranger. And one chapter in particular—it’s called “Polemic: National Tourism and the National Parks”—rings truer now than ever. Abbey’s message was timeless.
His biggest, “constructive, practical, sensible” proposal is
How to Slackline Across the Country
Step 1. Be a cartoon character. It’s so much easier to set a course and attach cartoon slacklines than real ones.
Step 2. That is all.
Below are the culmination of images from last summer’s cross-country slackline trip. I hope this inspires similar feats… Read the rest
In preparation for this fall, We Love Clean Rivers has teamed up with the Clackamas County Tourism & Affairs Office to offer volunteers weekend volun-tourism trips that combine the best of the best: “sightseeing, adventure and philanthropy.”
We Love Clean Rivers will be offering two weekends–this September and October–which follow… Read the rest
In a new study in which polar bears were collared and their journies traced, one female was discovered to have swam 426 miles in a period of nine days without stopping. According to the National Geographic report, this polar bear traveled across the Beaufort Sea, which is experiencing ice cover… Read the rest
If you’ve yet to see the 2011 Academy Award nominated documentary film, Waste Land, you can, at the very least, check out the trailer here. It follows artist Vik Muniz to the world’s largest landfill, Jardim Gramacho, just outside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The film teeters between artist’s experiment… Read the rest
Thanks to Osprey Packs and Red Reel Video Media for making this beautiful short about what some people do to get around, instead of driving.
What do you do to get to where you need to be… instead of driving?… Read the rest
Global climate change is melting sea ice in the Arctic ocean–making more of the sea accessible than ever before. This, of course, lends itself to considerations of oil drilling and opens up shipping routes through the North-West passage. But Polar ice melt also opens up the possibility for adventurers to… Read the rest
Is MiWorld the future of media? Possibly. Is it a game-changing, ground-breaking communications portal? Absolutely. In fact, it’s that and more.
MiWorld.com will enable users around the world to, as stated on the MiWorld website, “see and hear each other as individuals.” MiWorld will do this in two primary ways:… Read the rest
The Japanese Design Film STORE MUU has created what Treehugger is calling “The Drive-Thru For Cyclists.” Its official name is the “Pit In,” deemed so by the design firm that created it. Whatever you want to call it, the contraption is devised so that bicycle commuters can have an easy,… Read the rest
The above video is a slideshow from Diane Meyer’s “Without a Car” project, for which she photographed Los Angeles citizens who live and travel without a car to call their own. Meyer’s project is featured in the May/June issue of Orion magazine.
About the project, from the Orion website:
“In … Read the rest
