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EcoReport is written and edited by Evelyn Kanter, a professional journalist with a lifetime of experience a magazine and newspaper writer and photographer, radio and television news producer and reporter, and guidebook author and editor -- all focusing on travel, automotive, lifestyle, the environment, and your rights as a consumer.

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More reasons to visit Indianapolis than Super Bowl XLVI and Indy 500

Indianapolis has a lot more to offer than the football and car racing.  Sure, it’s world famous as the site of the Indianapolis 500, and getting worldwide attention as the site of Super Bowl XLVI between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, but that’s just for starters.

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Top tips for happy holiday travel with kids

This is the season of get-togethers and holiday travels.  While it’s a joyous time of year, the hustle and bustle of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s can create anxiety for children.  Make your visits with family and friends, or your holiday vacation getaway, enjoyable for everybody  with just a little preparation.

Stick to regular [...]

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Statue of Liberty 125th Birthday and the ongoing French-American connection

The Statue of Liberty has just celebrated her 125th Birthday with an all-day event that included fireworks and a ceremony turning 125 immigrants into U. S. citizens.  She may be both the most famous statue in the world, as well as the most famous gift from one nation to another — from the people [...]

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Contests to win trip to London Olympics, trans-Atlantic + Alaska cruises, Caribbean

These contests and sweepstakes are free to enter, and you might win a trans-Atlantic cruise or other vacation for up to four people.  What you probably also will win is the prize of being on the email list of the companies sponsoring the contests.  Sometimes I wonder if these things are really a way [...]

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Great drives: new $330 million road across Florida Keys is green, safe and scenic

A new $330 million road connecting the South Florida mainland with the Florida Keys is finished, with built-in safety and environmental features to make drivers, local wildlife and conservationists happy.

Florida Keys Highway 1 is scenic, safe and enviroronmentally friendly

Marker at the southenmost point in the US, in Key West

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Germany’s other Oktoberfest, in Stuttgart, home of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche

Dirndls and lederhosen at the Stuttgart Oktoberfest

The Canstatter Volksfest in Stuttgart is a smaller version of Munich’s gigantic Oktoberfest, although the suds-fueled merry-making is just as raucuous. When some 5,000 people get together in a tent with mountains of food, rivers of foamy brews and a band encouraging sing-a-longs, it is just [...]

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