Friday Round-up of Good Travel News
Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in Cheap Latin America Travel, General, MSNBC - Tripso columns, Making a difference, Travel books | 2 Comments »1) Outside magazine has stopped including any subscription insert cards in all subscription copies, starting with its March "green" issue. This will save an estimated 1,500 trees, according to the magazine. "We've had huge gains online," Paul Rolnick, consumer marketing ...
On Being an Eco-Friendly Traveler
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in Long-term travel, Making a difference, Travel gear, Travel industry | 3 Comments »I wrote a piece for Transitions Abroad this past December on being an eco-friendly traveler. Along the lines of this rant about carbon credit offsets, my intention was to get across the idea that easy fixes and single actions are ...
Carbon Offsets are a Joke
Monday, November 26th, 2007 Posted in Making a difference, Travel industry, Work/Life/Travel Balance | 11 Comments »I have been doing a lot of traveling the past two months and therefore a lot of catching up on stacks of magazines. It seems that everybody and their brother has felt a need to do a "green issue" lately ...
Old Bikes Reborn in Guatemala
Thursday, August 9th, 2007 Posted in Making a difference | 1 Comment »After a weekend of going through papers to clear some room on my desk, I found this cool article in Plenty magazine: From the Junkyard to the Kitchen. It's about an organization in Chicago called Working Bikes. They take bikes ...
Get Ready for a New Catch Phrase - Geotourism
Friday, July 20th, 2007 Posted in Making a difference, Travel adventures, Travel industry | 1 Comment »What do you call it when people stay in locally owned guesthouses, spend money in local restaurants, and get beyond the basic tour bus sites? Most of us who have been around a bit would just call that "traveling," but ...
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