Posts Tagged ‘Summer Vacation’

Go Green Summer Vacation

Are you going green this summer vacation? Think about it and see the Responsible Travel video from the series WhatYouCanDo.com. On traveling greener,

Tips for Keeping Your Summer Family Vacation Green

Family vacations don't need to be eco-travel in order to be eco-friendly. Here are tips on going green on your family vacation.

After UN speech, Lucknow girl to go green

While most children of her age look forward to playing with friends in summer vacation, 13-year-old Yugratna Srivastava, who made history by delivering a speech at a United Nations summit last year, has plans to green the city.


The Big Idea: Lev Grossman

After a bit of a summer vacation, the Big Idea is back! And to kick things off, author Lev Grossman is here with The Magicians , his new fantasy novel, which aside from starred reviews in Booklist and Library Journal, has prompted no less than George R.R. Martin (who knows from fantasy) to declare that it “is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to weak tea.” Mmmm.. Irish whiskey. But what does such praise actually mean? What about the book makes it a stiff shot of the fanta


Book Review: “It’s a Green Thing” by Melody Carlson

For the first time that she can remember, Maya Stark is beginning to feel like a "normal" teenager. Even with her mother in jail for drug possession and her pop-star father away on his comeback tour, Maya's new life with her uncle Allen and cousin Kim is coming together. Summer vacation's just beginning, and with a new job, a new boyfriend, and a new car (hybrid, of course), things are finally starting to look up. But that doesn't mean life is about to get any easier. Maya's still devoted to
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