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• Travel and Leisure Lists 15 Green Hotels

Properties on the list are Grenada's Spice Island Beach Resort; the Maldives' Soneva Fushi Resort & Six Senses Spa; Sri Lanka's Heritance Kandalama; Australia's Voyages Longitude 131, located in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park; Bahamas' Tiamo, on the South Andros Island; Switzerland's Whitepod, near Aigle in the Alps; Colorado's Devil's Thumb Ranch in Tabernash; the Philippines' El Nido Resorts in El Nido, Palawan; Chumbe Island Coral Park in Zanzibar, Tanzania; Egypt's Adrere Amellal in the Siwa Oasis, a Berber community in the desert; Kenya's Campi Ya Kanzi a Masai-owned lodge in Chyulu Hills; Nicaragua's Morgan's Rock Hacienda & Ecolodge on Playa Ocotal, San Juan del Sur, on the Pacific Coast; Jamaica's Hotel Mocking Bird Hill near Port Antonio; Tenuta di Spannocchia in Si...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 21, 2009

• Elegant Look at Work Sadly Incomplete

If your work doesn't yield happiness, he continues, that work-centred ideology holds that it's your fault. You didn't choose your career wisely, or you haven't tried hard enough. He relates his odyssey in a way that is entertaining (in Maldives, he finds himself "unable wholly to suppress fleeting images of a joint future with" the fish processing plant owner's comely secretary) and educational (a newly caught tuna must be killed right away or its panicked blood rush will darken the meat). [Alain de Botton] tells the story with charming wit and a masterful style. It's as if de Botton, whose past books include the critically praised Architecture of Happiness, isn't aware of disparities in income and power.

...But some time with, say, hotel chambermaids or diner personnel would have made th...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 02, 2009

• Out of India, On to Africa and Into Exotic

... reinforced the city's dual identity as our hotel limo worked its way through auto- and rickshaw-clo...," Cousteau told us as we approached the Maldives. "With huge populations surrounding it, this ocean...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• January 10, 2011

• Best Green Hotels Around the World

Heritance Kandalama, Sri Lanka: "When viewed from afar, Heritance Kandalama resembles an ancient temple grown wild with disuse. In fact, the vegetation and location have nothing to do with neglect (note the handwoven tapestries and stunning floor-to-ceiling windows in each room) and everything to do with ensuring that rainwater flowing from the hills collects in the hotel's reservoir below." Doubles from $114, including breakfast. Voyages Longitude 131, Australia: "The retreat's elevated canopy tents have solar-heated showers, a switch that lets guests control the floor-to-ceiling window blinds from the comfort of their king-size beds, and expansive views of Ayers Rock." Doubles from $1,980, including meals and activities.

...2. Soneva Fushi Resort, Maldives: "A collection of refined, castaway-style villas, ...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 22, 2009