Photos: Peggy Diedrichs; Descriptions: Gary Diedrichs
Gary and Peggy Diedrichs, Publishers. As Green Traveler Guides' editorial director, Gary’s background includes authoring guidebooks for Hawaii and Jamaica for Fodor’s and Bantam Books, as a widely published writer (including his recent cover article in the British Airways magazine, HighLife), magazine editor and a novelist. Peggy has loads of experience in advertising and marketing for travel publications and green companies. She grew up on a family farm in Michigan. Her dad used biodynamic growing methods. Gary’s fondest childhood memories are of waking up to the morning chores of his grandparents’ 100-acre farm in Ohio. Gary even had his five seconds of fame in an excellent documentary about farming called Hidden Bounty of Marin.
Since founding GTG, they’ve literally journeyed around the globe for months at a time in search of the world’s best green travel, including long stints in Hawaii, Mexico, Spain and Asia.