Quick question for you - are you green? No, I don’t mean The Hulk kind of green! I mean, are you conscious about the environment? Do you care about being green when you travel?

People make small to large decisions every day that impact the environment - whether it is the decision to not have your bed sheets changed at a hotel or an airline deciding which aircraft to fly on certain routes in order to minimize carbon emissions. Do you ever think green while you are traveling? Are you ever presented with eco-friendly information before you make your travel decisions?

Why am I asking? I’m participating in a conference at the end of October. The conference’s focus is “going green in travel”, and I would really appreciate your feedback. As a business traveler or a leisure traveler, do you ever make a travel decision based on whether or not the airline is making green initiatives? Do you choose one hotel over another because it is eco-friendly? Do these thoughts ever cross your mind? Is it service and quality over environment that drives your decisions?

Thanks for your feedback!

-Alex Young, vice president and associate publisher

Today marks the release of the highly anticipated follow-up to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight. It is expected to gross over $100 million during opening weekend and Heath Ledger, who plays the Joker, is earning rave reviews and there is talk that he may win a posthumous Oscar following his death in January. I was never a huge fan of superheroes and comics, but I always enjoyed Spiderman and, particularly, Batman and I am excited for the new movie.

Even if Ledger does not win an Oscar, he earned himself a spot on the Top 25 Movie Villains list, as compiled by Moviefone. I heard about the list on the radio during my drive to work yesterday and I decided to check it out further and see if I agreed. According to the list, the top ten are:

10. Queen, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

9. Max Cady, Cape Fear

8. Hans Gruber, Die Hard

7. Chigurgh, No Country for Old Men

6. Goldfinger, Goldfinger

5. Joker, The Dark Knight

4. Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

3. The Wicked Witch of the West, Wizard of Oz

2. Darth Vader, Star Wars

1. Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter

Personally, I do agree some of those villians are scary - Hannibal Lecter, Chigurgh, Voldemort. But I also think Michael Myers, Halloween, should have been higher than #12. And the Wicked Witch, #3, come on!

Anyway, this list inspired me to create The Global Traveler Blog Top 25 Best Travel Movies of All Time. Please send me your suggestions and we can put together the list in a future blog! I thought of Lost in Translation or the new one, The Darjeeling Limited, about brothers on a trip through India. Maybe Thelma and Louise on their road trip? Start sending suggestions!

-Kimberly Krol, circulation and public relations executive

If you read the blog comments, many of you want to know more about the people behind Global Traveler. Karen S. specifically wants to know about me, so I thought, a good way to accomplish this would be to put together a Facebook page. So, that is what I have done! It is a work in progress and I plan to take more pictures when I travel the world and add these to the collections.

So, please enjoy and use this to learn more about me if you interested! But, of course, you will have to be my friend to see the pictures and read my Facebook page.

I encourage the readers of this blog to join and create a community!

Cheers!

-Fran Gallagher, publisher and CEO

Last week I used this space to ask you what you wanted to read here. The response was great. Many people left comments on the blog and even more emailed me directly. I appreciate the feedback and have tabulated the results.

Celebrity travel stories & meet and greets - 20%

Reader contests (perhaps for GT stuff) - 15%

Conventions coverage - 15%

Business info for smaller cities - 12.5%

Info on GT staff and behind the scenes - 12.5%

Expanding on GT articles - 10%

Travel deals - 5%

Diet and fitness on the road - 5%

Travel bloopers - 2.5%

Very specific topic ideas (aka the rest) - 2.5%

All are interesting ideas. I can start delivering some of the requests immediately. Others will show up gradually. Unfortunately, some are out of my control, but not out of the question. Each suggestion has been noted and is appreciated.

I will continue to write celeb stuff, because I like it and my work brings me in contact with a lot of celebs. I will start getting travel stories from them. As a matter of fact, on a recent trip to Los Angeles, I started working on this. Those stories will be told in the near future.

I meet most of the celebs at conventions. Since I work with the people who run the conventions, I will give more in-depth coverage of the specifics of the convention’s inner workings.

I would be happy to share my travel bloopers. I usually don’t make it through any trip without at least one mishap. Since I do a lot of work in smaller cities like Kokomo (IN), Novi (MI), Rosemont (IL) and Madison (WI), I can bring some attention to them as well.

I will do the best I can with all of the ideas. This is your blog, as much as it is mine. I hope you continue reading, responding and suggesting.

-John Wroblewski, distribution specialist

Dear Blog Readers,

I have been writing this blog for over 6 months. This is my 29th effort. I have blogged about marathons, distribution, celebrity meet and greet conventions, scooters and more. Some have been silly and some have been serious.

So far, I have written about whatever I want. Hopefully, for my publisher’s sake, most of my blogs have had some sort of travel or business connection (no matter how tangentially).

Aside from the (usually positive) comments that some people leave, I have no idea what you really might like to read here. Global Traveler’s editor-in-chief Lisa Matte is always open to ideas for articles in the magazine. I am going to follow her lead.

If there is something you want to see here, this is your chance to request it. You can either do so by leaving a comment or you can email any requests directly to me at john@globaltravelerusa.com. I promise to take all ideas seriously and I will respond to each of you. So, let’s hear it. What do you want from my blog?

-John Wroblewski, distribution specialist