As of Thursday over 600 lodging properties have earned the Green Eco-Leaf Rating by completing a 70 point comprehensive eco-audit survey administered by iStayGreen.org – the online social network of environmentally friendly travel.

I’m not too sure that this is the best way to find eco-friendly travel destinations though. The rating is flawed in a number of ways. For example, although the eco-audit is comprehensive in nature, travel properties fill out the audit on their own. I could be Joe hotel owner with no recycling program and non-organic sheets but who is really to stop me from calling my hotel green …read more

The Associated Press recently reported on an Eighteen-year-old Wisconsin high school student Anthony Stancl who created a Facebook profile to pretend to be a teenage girl. Under this guise, over the course of nearly two years, he used the fictitious account to convince more than 30 of his male classmates to send in nude photos or videos of themselves.
Once the videos and photos were in Stancl’s possession, he threatened to put the photos or videos on the Internet unless they engaged in sexual acts with him. At least seven of them have said they were coerced into sex acts, …read more