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If your likes include a taste for green design and inclination to travel abroad (and whose don’t?), you’ll be eager to take a peek at Elevate Destination’s newest travel series, “Sustainable Travel for Green Designers,” which tackles green and global design issues in Panama and South Africa on two, 2010 experiential programs. Created for the design-savvy

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