Learning about Green Travel

Green Travel

Travel is one of the greatest joys in life. Travel brings together people, food, music, and art. It fosters the exchange of cultures and ideas and brings people together. Unfortunately travel and the methods we use to get from place to place, have a negative impact upon the environment. From carbon emissions to waste, the world’s travelers have a responsibility to minimize and offset their negative impact. Help keep travel a viable means of making the world a better place. Travel. Save the planet.

Carbon Offsets.

Co2 emissions from travel can be offset either through the purchase of Carbon Credits or by doing it yourself!

Companies can be found online that offer the purchase of carbon credits. They do this by offsetting your carbon footprint through the planting of trees and other sustainable energy projects.

Reduce your footprint

In addition to offsetting our carbon footprint, you can reduce your impact on the environment in which you are traveling.

• Support and patronize businesses that have taken steps to lessen their impact on the environment. These may be airlines, tour companies, hotels, restaurants and many other businesses. Do the research. Familiarize yourself with whom you are doing business and how they conduct their business. A little research goes a long way.

• Reduce your consumption. Everything you purchase carries an environmental price tag. From the manufacturing and packaging to the transporting of goods, each step adds to its cost. While there may be no way to completely eliminate this impact, you can certainly make a difference. Buy less, buy smart.

• Re-use. Sounds simple, but it works. Re-use that water bottle instead of buying a new one every time you become thirsty. Also carry along your own re-useable shopping bag or knapsack. Each plastic bag we remove from the system is one less bag that may end up polluting that wonderful place you have come to enjoy.

• Recycle. For the items that you must purchase, select items that can be recycled after use. While recycling facilities may not exist in all areas, please dispose of all wasted in a responsible manner according to the local regulations. And remember, “if you pack it in, you pack it out”.

• Go local. Purchasing locally grown, produced and manufactured goods reduces their environmental price tag. The proximity of basic materials, the goods created and the market for which they are intended, correlate directly with their environmental price tag. The greater the distances involved, the greater the carbon footprint. Less environmental costs are incurred when products are produced and consumed locally. Besides, what’s better than a delicious meal prepared in a restaurant using fresh locally grown and harvested food?