Yet they do share one other interesting trait—both are green, even if quietly so, without having to be. For I have to tell you that the experience of being a guest at either one of these Tajs—part of Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces , India’s premier luxury hotel group—is something you won’t soon forget. Wearing greenness lightly. MORE >>

| Leela Palace & Green Leaf |. have arrived in India’s capitol city in the lowest tourist season, no doubt due to the thermostat throbbing past 45 degrees Celsius. And that’s why, during this Delhi stay, I recommend wallowing in the cool green comfort of the Leela Palace or Green Leaf hotels. Green Leaf: suite green. MORE >>

f your notion is going to Goa for a short green vacation, be forewarned: it’s the Hotel California of India —you may never leave. Goa’s soft embrace almost feels a world apart from India’s numbing extremes and jarring contrasts. Sleeping green. Taj Exotica: Goan green luxe. Where does a green traveler sleep? MORE >>

Winners of the HICAP Sustainable Hotel Awards are resorts in Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Cambodia. MORE >>

Washington, DC, February 2011 – On Friday, significant progress was made toward addressing emissions of ‘super’ greenhouse gases when India and the US agreed to establish an Indo-US Technical Task Force on hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs. Reifsnyder, in New Delhi, along with members of industry and civil society groups to discuss the HFC issue. MORE >>