Sponsored by Dome Guys: When one of their geodesic domes first comes into view, you’ll feel a sense of wonderment and anticipation. Step inside the dome, and the experience truly feels like no other.

So, lets say you just don’t care about the biggest sports event in the world, World Cup. But wait!, there’s so much to glean from the people of South Africa, on a personal level.  We travel to African continent this week to hear Mandela’s message of forgiveness, in a world of contention, uncertainty, and fear.  He said, “If I cannot change when circumstances demand it, how can I expect others too”.

If that one didn’t penetrate, here’s another one. “To build hope for family and friends, we must exceed our own expectations”, Mandela said.

Lets go to South Africa, and do it on a tight budget without going there on Smart Green Travel, as we welcome Ms. Sthu Zungu, working hand in hand with Nelson Mandela everyday, directing the WorldCup, and at the helm of Tourism for South Africa.

Plus, is this a joke? 5 star luxury Kenyazi South Africa Wildlife Safari. It’s not! I found Chris Cote, from Gilroy, being responsible morally and socially aware. Kenyazi, translated into English means, “Star”.  Nothing like a few minutes with a great guy from the Bay Area who lives in Africa 8 months out of the year. When you’re ready to do Africa, you’ll remember this interview, and how it pierced your consciousness. Spending money on your sustainable travel plans is  so moving, when your hard earned bucks turn into fresh water wells for those who need it so badly in the very places where you Safari. We honor Chris Cote, for bridging hunger and water relief missions with 5 star luxury African Safari trips, on this weeks Smart Green Travel with Jerry Hart.

And finally, what’s a Green Wedding? Did you know, in the Bay Area we have 54,000 weddings each year. Average cost? $26,000. Try spending that in San Francisco. Sorry. You’re not quite there yet. Try $50,000 for a wedding.

Our Green Event Planners and Photographers are very direct. “The wedding industry missed this opportunity to support the sustainable economy. It sells over consumption and unsustainable products”, said  Corina Ann Beczner, of www.vibrantevents.net

Listen to Smart Green Travel with Jerry Hart, for everything deeply rooted in a Green event/wedding.

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Guests:

Sthu Zungu
Director South African Tourism
sthu@us.southafrica.net
www.us.southafrica.net

Chris Coté
President
Gilroy, CA
408-848-1798
info@kanyezisafari.org
www.kanyezisafari.org
http://www.infobayarea.com/bizbridge/biz/kanyezisafariafrica.html
http://www.kanyezisafari.org/index.html

Corina Ann Beczner
Owner & Green Wedding Consultant
Vibrant Events
www.vibrantevents.net
415-613-3778

Rebecca Wilkowski
Rebecca Wilkowski Photography
Certified Green Wedding Photographer & Photojournalist
347-413-4747
Web: www.RebeccaWilkowski.com
Blog: www.RebeccaWilkowski.com/blog

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Life is grand when you live on purpose and that’s a major reason I have such good news. I’ve launched a radio show that’s all about travel, on the air every Saturday from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM on Clear Channel’s Green 960 and www.green960.com

My heart is green because I’ve been so attracted to the people of a movement who genuinely care about their fellow man and woman. I’ve been blogging at HartofGreen.com and evolved right onto the air on San Francisco’s Green 960.

While my show debuts this weekend, I had a chance to meet some of the other hosts on the station as we did a roundtable discussion of each of our shows this past Saturday. We are creating an entirely Green Morning on Green 960.

The entire green morning each Saturday is loaded with talent and quite the line up of pros.

This green dream team of hosts share their passions leading up to my show at 11:30 AM.

Topics range from personal health, family, and household health, to food movement initiatives, stories from the land, and green travel. The bandwidth of Green that we are offering every Saturday is unprecedented.

What am I talking about on Green 960 this Saturday?

• Vancouver Olympics were the most sustainable games ever. You can still take part in the Vancouver experience even though the athletes and fans have gone home and the Vancouver games are over there are now many deals to be had. Also many of the exhibits will continue to run.
• Green certification. How do you know a hotel is really green? There are companies that will help determine that.
• And you see it everywhere yet so many are unaware of the facts of LEED certification.
• What does LEED certification truly mean?
• We also have a great sponsor. BetterHealthforDogs.com maker of Winston’s Dog Joint Medicine. Great for all those travelers with pets.

For blogs, podcasts, and more information on this show and previous shows, please visit our website at Hart of Green.com

Sincerely,

Jerry Hart

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So many topics to discuss. Brad Pitt’s biodegrable body lotion, Tiger Woods is now like the rest of us, a real human being. America’s dollar is weaker, China is building huge solar plants in Arizona and India will not buy our bonds, rather they buy more gold. Most of what I just said is not that interesting so lets do some “You Got to be Kidding Me” gift ingredient audits.

I’ve been shopping for holiday gifts and as a cheif responsible blogger at Hart of Green, I have to pull back that veil on “Biodegradable”. What you don’t know will only help you feel more stupid when you find out whats really in these products posing as 100% green.

You got to be kidding me #1…

100% biodegradable body wash? …really? 100?

On the positive side, when I look at all the ingredients in most of these products, I found most are able to break down within 28 days. Not much biodegrades available as ingredients, especially the thing we care about the most, THE SCENT - there are really only three scents to choose from. Hence, why we see so much aloe.

Packaging-wise, most bottles are made of post-consumer recycled plastic

However, all had fragrances and preservatives such as potassium sorbate and sodium benzoate, which can form into the carcinogen benzene if it comes in contact with acids. And there’s isoeugenol, also found in the body wash, which is currently listed as a “high hazard” ingredient on the Environmental Working Group’s cosmetic database.

Of course, it’s not as though using this body wash will cause skin cancer, but compare it to something like Dr. Bronner’s soaps, which are made of nothing but glycerin and essential oils - fair-trade, organic ones at that - and it suddenly doesn’t seem so impressive.

You got to be kidding me #2

While most all bottles are recyclable, the pumps are not. Even Brad Pitt’s, Kiehl’s, generally tries to be eco-conscious in their product development and retail, it has yet to offer an in-store refill option.

What’s scary is we should grab a bottle of Jean-Nate and see what’s in that. Remember that stuff? They still sell it.  Even scarier, I bet Brad Pitt and Angelina flood thier bathtub with it.

Furthermore, biodegradable soap is actually not biodegradable when it ends up in a body of water, because it requires soil for it to break down properly.

This is why many “camping friendly” soaps have labels reading “Do all washing, bathing or cleaning at least 200 feet from any water sources.”

So you make the call. More products posturing as green this holiday season on the margins of what is otherwise an unsustainable product. There are two components with biodegradable, the ingredients and the packaging, and neither is as sustainable as something like a bar soap, which is natural, doesn’t require packaging and has a long shelf life.”

There are two categories of green products:

Best in class, which refers to the best of a bad set of products (for example, biodegradable plastic bags, which are better than regular plastic bags but still belong to a category that’s inherently unsustainable); and alternatives to unsustainable products, such as a cleaning solution that uses vinegar instead of ammonia as a base.

Companies that are genuinely trying to change their ways for the sake of the environment should be commended, even if they’re not perfectly green in the end.

But consumers who are serious about reducing their footprint will soon figure out that words like “recyclable,” “biodegradable” and “natural” don’t always translate into sustainable.

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How Green is Dry

Time to hold your dry cleaner accountable when they’re using the word ORGANIC.

The truth is, businesses who go green need to stop using false labels that lead to false advertising.

Did you know, chemists define anything organic to be anything containing carbon, and those things aren’t necessarily good for you.

#1
Dry cleaning really isn’t dry – it just means that instead of water being used to clean the clothes, a chemical solvent is used in its place.

#2
Most dry cleaners use perchloroethylene, otherwise known as perc. The EPA has classified this handy little cleaner as a probable cancer-causing chemical.

#3
Many organic dry cleaners use a solvent called DF-2000 (sounds totally organic, right?) to clean clothes instead of perc. A derivative of gasoline, DF-2000 is only slightly less harmful than perc.

#4
Have you noticed that within 1 mile of your home you will probably find “organic” dry cleaners in a one-mile radius?

#5
At the first couple of places I went to, the clerk behind the counter couldn’t even answer my question. A manager was summoned to tell me that, indeed, DF-2000 was used in their facility to clean clothes in a “healthier” way. Another told me that perc was used to clean the clothes in their establishment, and the sign “organic” in the window only meant that they operated in an environmentally responsible way – meaning that they recycle those toxic perc containers, I guess.

#6
According to the clerk in the fourth store, they were actually using a method called wet cleaning, in which water is used to clean the garment, but in a computerized machine that prevents shrinkage and wrinkles. Prices there, however, were a bit steeper.

#7
I went home to do a bit more research, and found out that wet cleaning actually works great for most garments and is actually a much greener alternative to either perc or DF-2000. Another alternative? Carbon dioxide cleaning, which turns CO2 into a liquid to clean clothes.

Final Thoughts
If you’re looking for a greener way to dry clean, try finding a dry cleaner that uses a truly greener method here.

Are you ready to STOP BUYING dry clean-only clothes altogether? I’m not. But I am enjoying this continued education of how fake people show up with veneer green labels and expect everyone to honor them when they aren’t authentic. What the hell?

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