Green Travel and Transportation Archive

Hutton Hotel: A Green Hotel in the Heart of Nashville

This past weekend I was in Nashville to visit with friends and family and thought it would be an opportune time to sample some of the city’s finest Southern green hospitality. The Hutton Hotel has a lot going for it, and we were delighted as soon as we entered the lobby. TripAdvisor named the Hutton [...]
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Better Kids Beach Toys

Currently, W likes to troll the beach for cigarette butts and old potato chips, but I imagine (read: hope), that he will expand his scope beyond litter and actually begin to play. Since we brought him home from the hospital, tiny and wailing in our arms, we’ve been fantasizing about a couple of childhood rights-of-passage: [...]
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Reusable Sandwich Bags for Kids Lunches

Parenthood is full of all kinds of sexy challenges, but none is more exciting than the constant quest to find a better way to pack a snack. You’re right. I’m kidding. Snack packing is not sexy. Or exciting. In fact it’s a dreadful, but necessary part of parenting, often the single step that keeps you [...]
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Vectrix Electric Scooter

Rhode Island-based Vetrix has done more than its fair share in pioneering electric scooters of the sort that don’t evoke snickers, having brought out the first commercially-available, high-performance model in 2006. Since then, the company has been tweaking its flagship product in hopes of eventually making the phrase “electric scooter” synonymous with “sweet-ass hog I [...]
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Lazy E’s Top Budget-Friendly Scooters and Motorcycles
Lazy E’s Top Budget-Friendly Scooters and Motorcycles

A great way to reduce your costs, keep your greenhouse gas emissions in check, and still enjoy the freedom of the road is on a rugged, stylish motor scooter. Two-wheeled motor scooters can accelerate quickly, navigate traffic easily, and squeeze into parking spaces that turn automobiles green with envy. They also save a bundle on [...]
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ZERO S Takes Electric Motorcycle to New Roads, Speeds

A hundred years after being overtaken in popularity by its gas-powered counterpart, the once-ubiquitous electric car looks set for a comeback as auto firms in China, India, and the U.S. demonstrate new, more practical models for release over the next few years. Less noticeable but similarly swell are the parallel advances that have been made [...]
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Zip Zim Zoom: Car Share meets Ride Share

Whether or not you have a car, sharing rides is becoming easier and easier thanks to a little Zip and Zim. The world’s largest carsharing service Zipcar and leading online social rideshare network Zimride have recently partnered to give students at Stanford an affordable way to get around. Zipcar is known for parking convenient when-you-need-‘em [...]
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Exclusive Lazy E Interview: Seth Leitman

The Lazy E loves fast cars. Sleek sexy gas-less cars. That’s why electric cars get us so charged; hello Tesla, Th!nk, Aptera. But, if you are like us and still waiting in line for one of those mean muscle mobiles, consider converting your current car engine over to electric power by consulting the new book [...]
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Eco-Holiday Gift (vol. 1): Now That’s a Cool Book

As the holiday gifting season approaches, the Lazy E appreciates presents that are easy-to-find, easy to use, and require little to no assembly. If that gift happens to be inspiring like Sebastian Copeland’s “Antarctica: A Call To Action”, well that’s just an added bonus. Copeland has made a name for himself as a documentary-maker and [...]
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Kimpton Style: Hotel Experience at Home

One of our favorite hotels, Kimpton, has created a catalog that allows you to re-create the luxury hotel experience in your own home. The new site, Kimpton Style, features an eco-friendly product section in which 100% of the profits go to the Parks for People Campaign of the Trust for Public Land.
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