One of the most exciting new travel mags on the Web is Perceptive Travel, launched by the talented wanderer/editor Tim Leffel. Tim has reworked and republished a couple of my recent environmental stories, both written originally for Seacology. Here’s his very clean adaptation of my tale about saving the golden-maned langurs of Vietnam’s Cat Ba Island.

OnEarth is the beautiful, award-winning magazine of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC). In the magazine’s Fall 2006 "Living Green" column, I write about a recent "volunteer vacation" in Koh Chang, Thailand — where I discovered that a wet suit can also be a business suit. Check out My Fabulous, Virtuous Vacation.

Many of us have considered the ecological impacts of air travel; they’re far more severe than you might imagine. Here’s a story on the problem — and its potential solutions. It was originally published in the Winter 2005 issue of the NRDC’s OnEarth Magazine, and picked up by the Utne Reader:  Flying the Guilt-Free Skies.

I celebrated my 50th birthday in Jerusalem; it was my first trip to Israel. Many of my dispatches appeared on the ThingsAsian site, but here’s a story I published in the San Francisco Chronicle’s bi-annual travel magazine. It’s titled  Of Wine and Walls.

Read my article about Ethical Travel (and Ethical Traveler!), as it appeared in the January 2005 Los Angeles Times: Bridging the Cultural Divide

In this piece, which originally appeared on Salon Wanderlust, I describe a blood-curdling encounter with a tiger in one of Nepal’s wildlife parks preserves — and a disgraceful display of "contraband-burning" by Nepalese authorities. Read the original article.