Need tickets? Top Theater, Concerts, Sports Events
EcoReport is your award-winning guide to green travel, green cars, and saving the green in your wallet on both.
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.
|
 Munich Oktoberfest celebrates 200 years in 2010 Germany is justifiably famous for its great beer and wine festivals, which start in late summer or early fall and focus on regional wines, beers, and culinary specialties. The most famous is the Munich Oktoberfest, the world’s oldest and largest beer festival , which celebrates its 200th anniversary in 2010. Festival dates this year are September 18 to October 4.
The Munich Oktoberfest turns the city into party central. Dozens of huge tents serve food, beer and entertainment to thousands of people each night, and a sprawling midway lures visitors to Ferris wheels and other rides. Each of Bavaria’s beer breweries has its own tent and serves only its own beer, and of the beer tents serve tons of wurst, roast pig and chicken nightly, and every tent features an oompah band.
 World's largest Oktoberfest beer festivals are in Munich and Stuttgart Every few minutes, the band plays a rendition of the “Prosit” drinking song, and everybody stops chatting or eating or drinking to stand up and sing while waving their beer mugs in unison. It’s tough to resist.
I’ll admit — I’ve been there, and I’ve done that. And, I never ceased to be amazed at the strength of the waiters and waitresses who thread their way through the crowds while juggling up to eight one-liter mugs without spilling a drop. You’ll have the most fun if you pick one tent and stay there for the evening, rather than tent-hopping.
Despite the BP oil spill, the worst environmental disaster in US history, most beaches along the Gulf of Mexico remain open and ready for visitors. One of the best ways you can help resort communities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida is to travel there and spend your money in the local, family-owned restaurants, [...]
Lucky Lab Brewpub, Portland, Oregon, is solar powered
Portland, Oregon is one of the most environmentally friendly cities on the planet, so it should not surprise anybody that this green, eco-travel destination has a solar-powered brewpub.
Portland’s Lucky Labrador Brew Pub is the first brewpub in Oregon to use solar power to brew beer. [...]
Earth Day 2010: save the green in your wallet
April 22, 2010 is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, a day to think about the environment and keeping it green. Since my own personal definition of saving green includes saving the green in in my wallet, here are my High Fives – the five [...]
 Airport food is worse than you think. It’s enough to make you sick. With all the new airport security rules, we’ll be spending more time at airports, which means we’ll be eating more airport food. But unless airport food vendors clean up their act, there will be more passengers locking themselves in airplane bathrooms, like the Nigerian businessman en route to Detroit.
USA TODAY reviewed inspection records for nearly 800 restaurants and food vendors at 10 U.S. airports, and found a long list of violations. These included food stored at dangerously warm temperatures which would allow bacteria and pathogens to grow. It’s not just at the ‘grab and go’ sandwich kiosks. USA Today also found serious violations at airport restaurants with table service.
|
priceline.com
Where’s Evelyn? January 2012
Israel
December 2011
Courcheval, France
November 2011
New Zealand
Los Angeles Auto Show
October 2011
Stuttgart, Black Forest
September 2011
Saratoga, NY
June 2011
Pittsburgh
Washington, DC
Niagara Falls
Hershey, Penna
PRSA Travel & Tourism Conf.
San Antonio, Speaker
April 2011
Fiji Islands, Los Angeles
ASJA Conference, NYC
Panelist on Writing Apps
March 2011
Anchorage, Alaska
Skiing at Alyeska
February 2011
Vancouver Island,
Vancouver, Whistler
Where Evelyn Was in 2010
New Car Launches
Detroit, Nashville,
San Francisco, Miami
Los Angeles Auto Show
Porsche Test Track, Leipzig
Travel Destinations
Germany -- Munich,
Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin
Norwegian Epic
Inaugural Cruise
Cuba--Havana,
Cienfuegos, Trinidad,
Santa Clara
Dubai
Thailand --
Bangkok, Chang Mai
Beaver Creek, Colorado
Speaking Engagements
Newport, R. I.
Speaker, SATW Meeting
Las Vegas, Speaker
Alternative Fuel Conference
Book Expo America, NYC
Author Book Signing
Peaceful Places NYC
My new travel guidebook
|
Follow EcoReport