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	<title>Tim Leffel&#039;s Cheapest Destinations &#187; Making a difference</title>
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		<title>The Solar-Powered Traveler</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/04/17/the-solar-powered-traveler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the comments after my green travel interview post, someone asked, &#8220;Have you figured out if there’s any way to travel around the world without ever plugging into a wall socket? With/without a laptop?&#8221;
The second part of that question is the tricky part, but the first part is now not all that hard. For a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Travel Interview</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2009/04/08/green-travel-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a columnist for Transitions Abroad since I first got started in travel writing, I&#8217;ve done more than a few articles on environmentally friendly travel and reducing your impact. I wrote about these things 15 years ago when hardly any player in the travel industry seemed to give a crap about what they were doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteer Teaching Opportunity in Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cheap Europe Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of volunteer or &#8220;voluntourism&#8221; opportunities out there that will actually cost you a buttload of money for the privelege of giving your time and effort. In other cases, you just have to get yourself there and then your expenses are covered. At the end you come out enriched and no poorer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can stop pretending you&#8217;re Canadian now&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2008/11/04/you-can-stop-pretending-youre-canadian-now/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2008/11/04/you-can-stop-pretending-youre-canadian-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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At the Oscars Jon Stewart said, &#8220;If we elect a black president, how will we know it&#8217;s the future in a movie?&#8221;
The future is here. Big global hug. Lets put on our sunglasses and stumble back into the light.
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		<title>50 Sustainable Travel Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Long-term travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written before in Transitions Abroad on easy ways to lessen your environmental impact when you travel. With all the hype about offsetting airplane carbon emissions and eco-friendly travel gear, it&#8217;s easy to ignore the ongoing issues that require a slight shift in habits.
I like this Sustainable Travel Tips feature that ran in a recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slash and Burn Tourism</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2008/09/22/slash-and-burn-tourism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once had a brilliant idea about doing a serious book about travel called Slash and Burn Tourism. The pitch was, like the traditional but destructive tradition of slash and burn agriculture, there are many destinations in the world that used to be great, but are now so overcrowded and overtaxed that people are giving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Traveler? Forget the Bloodmobile</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2008/08/07/world-traveler-forget-the-bloodmobile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not just gay heroin addicts from Gabon who get shown the door at the bloodmobile. If you are a world traveler, your blood is probably not wanted, at least by the American Red Cross anyway.
My latest Tripso column was borne out of my own experiences trying to donate blood on multiple occasions and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Round-up of Good Travel News</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2008/03/14/friday-round-up-of-good-travel-news/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2008/03/14/friday-round-up-of-good-travel-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1) Outside magazine has stopped including any subscription insert cards in all subscription copies, starting with its March &#8220;green&#8221; issue. This will save an estimated 1,500 trees, according to the magazine. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had huge gains online,&#8221; Paul Rolnick, consumer marketing director said. We intend to replace our entire business online as this trend continues, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Being an Eco-Friendly Traveler</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2008/01/23/on-being-an-eco-friendly-traveler/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2008/01/23/on-being-an-eco-friendly-traveler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Long-term travel]]></category>
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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 not going to reduce your impact all that much. It takes ongoing, habit-forming attention and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Offsets are a Joke</title>
		<link>http://travel.booklocker.com/2007/11/26/carbon-offsets-are-a-joke/</link>
		<comments>http://travel.booklocker.com/2007/11/26/carbon-offsets-are-a-joke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;green issue&#8221; lately (or in Island&#8217;s case, a &#8220;blue issue&#8221; just to be different). Green as in &#8220;save [...]]]></description>
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