Looking for a nice winter vacation? If you’re an environmentally aware traveler, there’s plenty of green hotels in Colorado, South Lake Tahoe, Reno and in the vicinity of most other winter ski areas. You can drive a prius and eat organic food. All well and good. But what about that snowshoe you’re using? Yes, I’m afraid so….The eco-friendly bug has now spread to snowshoes.

You need to get one which is not made of PVC, and made by a local company (as opposed to a sweatshop in Vietnam) which uses clean energy and implements other green practices. In other words, you need to buy Crescent Moon Snowshoes (www.crescentmoonsnowshoes.com/).

The Boulder, CO based company does not use PVC (polyvinyl chloride) in their snowshoes, and their plant uses 100% wind powered energy. They recycle anything they can get their hands on, including coated fabric scraps, aluminum, stainless steel, cardboard, and office materials.

Crescent Moon’s president Jake Thamm says that “By offering a green snowshoe which is made entirely in the US we feel we can offer the market a line of products that not only perform better than most other snowshoes, but will give our customers something good to feel about when they buy and use them in the outdoors.”

I do believe that pretty soon you’ll find it impossible to lead a non-green lifestyle.

Speaking of impossibilities, a pair of New Yorkers named Chris Solarz and Matt Ferrisi have done the impossible - they went through the entire New York subway system, getting on and off at every single station, inside of 24 hours. To be precise - 22 hours and 51 minutes to go through 468 train stations dotted across 25 subway lines.

I think we’ve just added one more activity to the list of nutty attractions in New York. Go through the entire subway system as fast as you can. The previous world record was 24 hours and 54 minutes. Solarz and Ferrisi, by breaking this record, now find themselves about to be named in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Thomas
Filed under: NYC, News