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What is Jamble?

Jamble is a new kind of travel magazine, where green travel is not just about rural retreats and global music doesn't feature panpipes.

We love being green and we love to travel, but that doesn't mean we want to spend our next holiday in a tipi woven from recycled hemp by a lost Papua New Guinea tribe.

We prefer being green without the extreme, and green for us is innovation. Which is why Jamble brings you an innovative approach to eco-friendly travel, with cool gadgets, forward thinking travel ideas, green city guides and thought provoking articles on travel and environment issues.

We also believe that travel is not just about the sights, but the sounds too, so every issue we'll bring you our favourite bands from across the world; and we don´t mean bongo playing, pan-pipe blowing world music, but up and coming contemporary bands and DJ´s creating a buzz in their home towns.

And we're Welsh too! Cylchgrawn teithio a cherddoriaeth gyda strimyn gwyrdd.

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New York to Get Eco-friendly 'Action Center' Jan 28

Mercy Corps - an international relief agency that has been operating since 1979, announced plans this week for a new eco-friendly and interactive education center to be built in Battery park in Manhattan, called The Action Center to End World Hunger.

The visitor attraction, which is slated to open in Fall 2008, will give visitors a chance to learn about global hunger and poverty, what efforts are being made to combat these global challenges, and how they can get involved. Included in the plans are exhibitions of the key areas Mercy Corps works, a news bureau that will show live feeds from various countries and a store that sells handmade crafts and gifts from across the globe with the profits going directly to the artists.

The building will cost around $5.4 million to construct, and although detailed plans have to be released, the building is being designed to be fully sustainable and will aim to achieve a platinum LEED rating - which if it does so, will mean it will be one of the first public buildings in New York to achieve such a rating.

Eco-friendly Surf School Opened in San Diego Jan 23

California has no shortage of surf schools, but now learner surfers in San Diego have the option of taking lessons at the Surf Eco school, set up surfer Torrey Trust.

Trust, inspired by trips to the Costa Rican rainforest and by Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth, has set up the school to be as green as possible. Surfboards are made from a vegetable based bio-foam, surf wax and sun screen is made from organic, natural products - as the chemicals in regular waxes and lotions can endanger marine life; and even the towels are made from bamboo.

The school is also aiming to save 1000 acres of tropical rainforest by 2010. To achieve this, for each participant that signs up for a class or lesson, the school purchases half an acre of rainforest through the Nature Conservancy Rainforest Program.

Brisbane Green City Guide Launched Jan 21

The Australian city of Brisbane is the focus of the latest of our unique Jamble Green City Guides. The Queensland city is the gateway to some of Australia's most spectacular national parks - including of course the Great Barrier Reef, and the city itself has hundreds of parks and gardens to explore.

Brisbane could also become Australia's greenest city in the near future, with plans by the city council to make Brisbane carbon neutral by 2026.

Like our other Green City Guides, the Brisbane guide is the only online guide to the city that features eco-friendly attractions and tours, organic restaurants and markets and green backpacker hostels in the city.

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