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Low-Carbon London

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Locavore restaurants, eco-boutiques, and even a solar-powered city hall are a testament to Britain's long-standing commitment to clean living. For this trip, T+L partnered with Greenopia, the leading publisher of eco-guides to U.S. cities (greenopia.com), applying Greenopia’s environmental criteria to hotels, restaurants, stores, and sites in London.

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2 Hotels 2 Restaurants 8 Activities

Destinations: London · South Bank · Westminster · East End (Hoxton, Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Shoreditch) · London Bridge · Kings Cross · Islington · Chiswick

Themes: Eco-Travel · Shopping

Inspired by: Eco-Friendly Guide to Paris, London and Stockholm — by Katie Bowman, Published Oct. 2008

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Apex City of London Hotel

East End (Hoxton, Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Shoreditch) | Europe | England | London | Great Britain

The hotel gets high eco-marks for its on-site recycling: a key card system that controls heating and lights when you're out; energy-efficient windo
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51 Buckingham Gate

Westminster | Europe | England | London | Great Britain

The smartly furnished town-house-style rooms and suites, set around a courtyard near St. James's Park, have tasteful kitchenettes with recycling bi
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Duke of Cambridge

Islington | Europe | England | London | Great Britain

Islington's much-loved restaurant serves all-organic pub fare (along with eight microbrews on draft) at communal farmhouse tables under a high ceil
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Acorn House

Kings Cross | Europe | England | London | Great Britain

Chef Arthur Potts Dawson reinvents English classics like a Cornish crab risotto and an artichoke-and-pancetta salad in the open kitchen of his whit
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Montezuma's

London | Europe | England | Great Britain

An organic chocolate store. More

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Junky Styling

London | Europe | England | Great Britain

The shop sells reworked secondhand clothes. More

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Equa

Islington | Europe | England | London | Great Britain

This no-frilles women's clothing boutique is an ethical-style pioneer, selling cult-brand Del Forte denim and La Lesso ballet flats.
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Insider London

London | Europe | England | Great Britain

The company runs offbeat excursions on public transportation and by foot. Sights include the Tate Modern, housed in a refurbished power plant; Junk
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City Hall

London | Europe | England | Great Britain

The solar-powered, Norman Foster-designed egg shape improves interior ventilation and retains heat. More

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Eco

Chiswick | Europe | England | London | Great Britain

Actor Colin Firth's home design store in a converted Chiswick town house with a green roof, stocks chic housewares, including fair-trade throw pill
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Borough Market

· T+L Favorite

London Bridge | Europe | England | London | Great Britain

A 4.5-acre market
where you can get a bite from food stalls such as De Gustibus bakery.

Go to the gallery to catch everything from video projectio
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Tate Modern

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South Bank | Europe | England | London | Great Britain

Housed in a hulking converted power station, this vast modern art showplace opened in 2000, but still breaks new ground with installations. Each ye
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Low-Carbon London

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Hotels (2)

Apex City of London Hotel

51 Buckingham Gate

Restaurants (2)

Duke of Cambridge

Acorn House

Activities (8)

Montezuma's

Junky Styling

Equa

Insider London

City Hall

Eco

Borough Market

Tate Modern

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