One + - July 2010 - (Page 70)

+ What’s New in Mexico Tour line service Turibus in Mexico City offers a nighttime route on its double-decker buses, allowing passengers to hop on and off at party spots around the city into the wee hours on Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings. The service costs US$20 and can be booked at the regular ticket ofﬁce. Green Expo, the leading environmental and renewable energy trade show/ event in Mexico, will be hosted by the U.S. Commercial Service and will take place in a pavilion in Mexico City’s World Trade Center in September. Participating exhibitors will have access to an estimated 5,000 visitors seeking professional environmental services and state-of-the-art environmental equipment. Off the Beaten Path A couple’s shared love of ecotourism and mushroom cuisine inspires them to start group tours in Puebla, Mexico. BY KIMBERLY KING ERIK PURRE PORTSMOUTH AND WIFE GUNDI JEFFREY MOVED TO MEXICO FROM CANADA IN 1997. The couple Fun Facts + shared a love for ecotourism and mushroom cuisine, and in 1999 felt so inspired by the vast and indigenous fungi of mountainous central state Tlaxcala that they formed Mexican Mushroom Tours. The duo teams with mycology experts—the botany branch that studies fungi—from the University of Tlaxcala and leads participants from around the world in the time-honored tradition of mushroom foraging. “Our goal is to gently and carefully develop a wider awareness of prime fungi regions in Mexico through small, international foray groups, expert local mycological information Mexico introduced corn, chocolate and chili peppers to the world. A remarkable Mayan weapon known as the hornet bomb—an actual hornet’s nest thrown at enemies—was once commonly used in battle. Because it was constructed on top of a lake, Mexico City is sinking at a rate of six inches to eight inches a year as pumps draw water out for the city’s growing population. 70 one+ 07.10

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of One + - July 2010

One+ - July 2010
In It Together
Contents
The Energy of Many
Impressions
Overheard
Agenda
Top Spots
Focus On
SoundOff
Hot Buzz
Art of Travel
Your Community
Making a Difference
Connections
Irrelevant
Refresh Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Who Owns Social, Anyway?/Embrace the Changing Pace
Penalty for Posting Event Videos Online
Improving Your Meeting Performance
Want to Kill Your Chances at Getting a Job?
A Natural Fit
Wearing the Green Crown
Off the Beaten Path
Cracking the Code
Clear Your Mindspace
There Is No Try
Grassroots Giving
Recognizing Market Transformation
Meet Where?

One + - July 2010