Google Sponsors Environmental Travel with “Summer of Green”
Pick five popular vacation spots not normally known for environmentally-friendly travel and build a green-themed travel site about them.
In typical Google style (simple and “why not?”) the cities of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, and San Francisco are featured on The Summer of Green web site. It’s a collaboration between the Earth Day Network and Google and features about a half-dozen tips on searching green destinations anywhere and the same number of recommend sustainable or organic restaurants & chocolate shops, car rentals & cabs, spas, museums, and even outdoor shops (in Vegas, no less) in each featured city.
Google’s employees must spend a lot of time playing around with their own search engine too. I think one of the coolest finds on The Summer of Green is the flood maps on the Los Angeles page. It turns out my building, in the 90292 zip, will be beachfront property, on a small island, if the ocean rises just 9 meters (about 30 feet). And, if the ocean rises just 12 meters (about 40 feet) I won’t have to worry about signing another lease here.