Dolphins! Have you spoken to anyone who swims with them in the wild frequently? On Smart Green Travel, you’ll hear Lisa Alpine share spectacular play by play details of water dancing with the dolphins and what she describes as dolphin daycare,  in Hawaii, where pods of dolphin parents drop their baby dolphin kids off near shore, while they go out to grab lunch and dinner. Plus, a beautiful interactive story of what happens when hundreds of dolphins arrive in front of you, with their kids in tow, and what ensues from there.

Meanwhile, there’s nothing cute about this.  It’s hard to believe any country would still allow dolphin hunting.  At the Cove in Taiji, the dolphin killing continues. Although the killing of bottlenose dolphins -  slaughtered for meat by the Taiji fishermen starts September 1st in Japan, the fight for the protection of all marine mammals goes on. Sign the petition with SaveJapanDolphins.org as Smart Green Travel joins Ric O’ Barry’s heroic efforts to expose the plight of dolphins worldwide  and save these innocent precious creatures.

Green Aquariums

Where can you climb through the layers of the rain forest and descend into a 100,000 gallon “Flooded Forest” tank, where freshwater fish cruise overhead? Where can you see a 2 ½ acre Living Roof, an expansive solar canopy, an extensive water reclamation system, and walls insulated with recycled blue jeans? Only in San Francisco!

Smart Green Travel takes you to the Greenest Aquariums in the country, including San Francisco’s Steinhart Aquarium, the largest green public platinum-rated building in the world, for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).

Special Highlight! “Penguins and Pajamas”. Overnight sleep overs this fall and winter, at the Aquarium.

Then, down to L.A. and the “Aquarium of the Pacific” in Los Angeles ,where guests hop onto big boats to go whale watching.  And, the “Tennessee Aquarium”, celebrating green consciousness and connectedness to mammals and animals, saving extinct endangered species, including the “Redneck Turtle”. no pun intended

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Steinhart Aquarium
Manager of Sustainability Programs
Aaron Pope

Lisa Alpine
Swims with Dolphins in the Wild 

Aquarium of the Pacific
VP of Special Projects
Barbara Long

Tennesse Aquarium
Tom Benson
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American’s pair wine with food, while Europeans pair wine with life. The numbers speak for themselves. Whether you’re like me, a novice with wine, or a connoisseur, the FACT IS:

Europeans drink 28 gallons of wine per year, per person. American’s drink 3 gallons of wine per year.

What can we embrace from other cultures that do both?; pair wine with food, and, pair wine with life.

Hear from the smallest, to the largest green wineries on Smart Green Travel, providing all kinds of ways to evaluate how they’re going green, and offering such great combination’s  of antiquated farming techniques, with modern technology to offer you authentic carbon-offsets.

A green winery is only as green as the companies values, consciousness and ethics. Meaning, does the winery invest in projects that truly reduce emissions, and at the same time benefit the employees,  local populations and Eco-systems?

If you miss Smart Green Travel every Saturday, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm, on Green 960 AM or, on the Web at TheGreenMorning.com, then count on Hart of Green.com to help you connect with fresh green news, for example, we shine the eco-spotlight on….

• America’s first carbon-neutral winery
• Green wineries, sustainable using 100 percent solar and wind power
• Synthetic-chemical-free farming
• Integrated pest management - Now, there’s a reason to celebrate what’s organic at Green Wineries!

These Green Vineyard Thought Leaders, working each day in their gift, and with their love for living green, will leave your palette craving your favorite wine, and incentives to make immediate plans for a stay-cation at your next Green Winery close to home

Smart Green Travel is nudging you to get away from your work, for a day or so, grab the ones you love, and truly be in touch with your inner voice and nature, right here in our Bay Area backyard.

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LaRocca Vineyards
Founder
Phil La Rocca

Parducci Vineyards
Director
Paul Dolan

Sonoma Kutrar
Marketing Director
John Hudson

Navarro Vineyards
Founder
Debra Cahn

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• Top Travel Places to Go in 2010 reprinted from New York Times 2. Patagonia Wine Country Ten years ago, a group of adventurous winemakers set their sights on an Argentine valley called San Patricio del Chañar, an unusually fertile and eerily beautiful corner of Patagonia. They plowed, planted and waited. The outcome? A blossoming wine country with......
• Wine Collecting Hobby As long ago as in the 1700s, it was recognized that wine had a powerful hold on people, and that great friendships could spring from good wine. The art of wine and wine collecting has a truly long and interesting history dating as far back as 4000 years BC. There......

Have you seen this behemoth white whale in the sky over the Bay Area? FYI, I was also informed we are not to confuse Blimps, with a Zepplin Air Ship. Yes, at the top of that illustration to the left, the AirShip nearly dwarfs our largest jumbo jets. The Zepplin company, that also built the Hindenburg, is not the same Airship our Great Grandpa’s engineered at the Zepplin plant back in 1925. And, it’s significantly Green, in many ways, one of the safest aircraft in the sky. Who knew? Blimps and Airships, how are they Green, and what’s the difference between the two?

The Zepplin is the largest, and only AirShip in North America, for the average Joe, like you and I, to see the Bay Area, like no other 360 degree visual experience possible.  Some have described it as a ‘personal cloud’ or ‘knowing what birds feel like’. Find out how Airships are a significant part of a post Green world, for example, right now,  one big-momma-of-a-Zepplin-Airship, is assisting in the clean up of our oil spill in the Gulf.

Hot Air Balloonitics - Welcome Aboard!
From Hang Gliding, to Gliders, to Green Hemp Hot Air Balloons, blowing hot air in Sonoma County, Smart Green Travel is soaring, with the help of the thermals, like a Falcon over Mt. Tamalpais, and will lift you to virtual heights. If you feel like someone else can do that crazy-in-the-air stuff, than Smart Green Travel, can serve as a reminder, of what it is you REALLY want.

It can give you courage and self-confidence to actually “GO FOR IT”, and know that personally, what you want to commit your life too, those far away dreams, CAN become reality in your life. A fresh new mindset of awakening, and self-love, to do the unexpected, for your sustainable soul. Now that’s what I call GREEN.

Come glide, fly, jump, balloon into this weeks Smart Green Travel, aired Saturday’s from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm, with Jerry Hart, on Green 960 AM San Fransisco, or stream at www.TheGreenMorning.com

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Guests:

Wine Country Balloons
Scott VanderHorst

Airship Ventures
Alex Hall

Quest Richlife
Bay Area Glider Rides

Hang Gliding
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• 25 cheap ways to keep your house cooler, Part 5 I hope that you've enjoyed this series! This article on MSN.com, 25 cheap ways to keep your house cooler, will help to beat the heat this summer on a budget! Today we conclude this five-part series by planning ahead! (The descriptions from the article are bolded; my unbolded comments follow.)......

Yep, that’s the “Harry Potter Forbidden Journey” ride at Universal in Florida. Buckle up and pull down your harness, for a virtual roller coaster ride on Green in Amusement Parks. Smart Green Travel, hears from America’s biggest Amusement Parks and their Green steps to sustainability in the most wild places.

From Walt Disney World’s 30 tons of food grown at Epcot each month, to Sea Worlds  OSHA Whale Trainer accident investigation, to  Six Flags new baby dolphins in Vallejo, and the beautiful story of what happened to Mom, and one of her baby boy dolphins, when he was born.

Male Penguins, have got it rough! When you visit the newly updated Penguin exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, visit the Penguins for more than ten minutes. Witness the relentless testing of the females during the creation of her nest, insisting that he help her build the nest on her complicated terms. The male penguin, tirelessly, works each long day, hauling twigs and eggs up the mountain, drops them in front of her, and awaits her approval.  She often declines and forces him to leave, once again, down the mountain, to then return to the nest, with something more to her liking. They are monogamous, and the female is testing her mates endurance, as husband, and father, as he spends all day, for many weeks, climbing a small mountain, in the exhibit, pushing wooden eggs and twigs, up to the Mother’s nest,  only to have her reject his efforts repeatedly. Back down the hill he goes, to start the process all over again.  Male Penguins repeat this pattern countless times a day, and have the most exhausting schedule  I’ve ever witnessed of any animals in captivity. Watch them right now LIVE on the PenguinCAM

The Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco is also dazzling. Nearly 10 years and $500 million dollars in the making, it’s finally here. The new Academy is a masterpiece in sustainable architecture, blends seamlessly into the park’s natural setting, and is filled with hundreds of innovative exhibits and thousands of extraordinary plants and animals.

A  Smart Green Trip down memory lane leads you to memories on the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz. One of the last standing Boardwalks in California, still exists, because of the “Green mindset and pride and unity amongst the staff, mixed with a deep conviction and passion, that sustains and attracts millions of us, to this Bay Area time capsule again and again.  The fun is hearing about the new Haunted Castle, the cool Surfer lighthouse museum, that’s open to the public, and just the simplicity, of our historical and nostalgic  Boardwalk

What’s Green?, and what’s new for the entire family at Green Amusement Parks in America,

How bout that “Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey” at Universal Studios? What aspect of the Wizarding World are you most excited for? What do you hope they include in the park from the books or movies?

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Guests:

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
Director of Community Relations
Kris Reyes

Walt Disney World
Lead Environmental Green Director
Tammy Brister

Six Flags
Communications Director
Nancy Chan

Monterey Bay Aquarium
Allison Barrett Community Association
Director

San Francisco Green Drinks
Generation Green
Founder
Missi Hurt

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