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Go Green Travel Green Blog is Ecotourism Logue Favourite
One of Ecotourism Logue’s favourite green sites of the moment is Go Green Travel Green. The articles are punchy, witty and informative and make people question their travelling habits.
The website recently featured a green travel series starting with 31 Reasons to Travel Green: In Pictures, a disturbing yet motivating post on why it’s good to go green. As the old saying goes, ’sometimes pictures speak louder than words’.
Another great post by the Go Green Travel Green team is Shades of Green Travel. This …
Date: June 27th, 2008 |
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Eco-Libris Provides Great Green Travel Books
If you haven’t already found the website, Eco-Libris is a wonderful eco lovin’ site dedicated to balancing out the harm we do by reading books.
Now, before you click away, I know that sounds a bit hippy and greenie but as an avid book reader I often have the guilts at my own frivolous indulgence and the number of trees it takes to feed my habit, but – and here comes the excuse, or should I say, reason – where would we be without them?
Books provide an …
Date: June 14th, 2008 |
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Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards 2008
Time is running out!
Nominations for this year’s Responsible Tourism Awards will close on 16 June 2008 (next Monday) so be sure to cast your vote for your favourite responsible retreat.
If you’re not already familiar with the Responsible Tourism Awards, as the name suggests, they are dedicated to rewarding individuals, companies and businesses that provide genuinely green holidays which operate in a way that respects and benefits local communities and without impacting too much on the surrounding environment.
The awards, now in their fifth year, are undoubtedly the most respected in …
Date: June 9th, 2008 |
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Green Wedding Ideas
The amount spent on weddings is spiralling out of control and the extravagance involved sometimes borders on the ridiculous so many brides- and bridegrooms-to-be who are concerned about the waste accrued are looking for more responsible and ethical options. This doesn’t only include where they decide to have the ceremony and reception but also how they decide to do it. Going green on your big day says something about you both, and what a better way to make a statement about how you plan to lead your lives together than on the day you become man and wife?
Date: May 16th, 2008 |
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How to Find a Reputable Eco Travel Company
When it comes to planning a holiday, some people like nothing more than to sit scouring the internet for hours, maybe sometimes days or weeks, in an attempt to find the perfect holiday. Others find it a right pain in the neck. And when you’re desperately trying to be responsible and uphold your eco-friendly beliefs, finding a tour company that can prove their practices are genuinely green can be daunting.
Too many unethical companies are quick to jump on the eco band-wagon and freely brandish their vacations as being eco-friendly when in fact the closest they’ve ever been to green is dreaming about the colour of their money.
So to help you help yourselves when planning an eco trip, Ecotourism Logue has come up with a few tips and tricks to help you find a company that is true blue in the green stakes.
Date: April 17th, 2008 |
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Interview: Laura Burgess, Editor of Ecoescape Green Guides
It’s not always easy finding genuinely green travel options, especially if you’re not familiar with the country you’re planning on visiting, so eco travellers on their way to the UK and Ireland might be interested to know there are a new set of ecoescape green guides available. They’re cram packed with lots of eco-friendly accommodations and activity ideas to help plan your holiday and stay green.
EcotourismLogue spoke to Laura Burgess, founder and editor of the popular ecoescape guides, to find out a little bit more about the company …
Date: June 23rd, 2008 |
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Korean Tourism Offers Free Homestay
Ever wanted to experience a homestay? Ever wanted to experience a homestay for FREE? Yeah, thought would get your attention.
To celebrate the launch of their new website, Korea Tourism is offering the first 100 people to make a reservation before 30th June a 2-night/3-day stay at a Korean residence for nada, gratis, zip.
Whether this is good for the family or not is debatable. Generally, homestay families should benefit directly from their guests, it’s their way of making a living, but I guess as …
Date: June 14th, 2008 |
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Green Honeymoon Ideas
With increased awareness of environmental issues, many people are putting more of an effort into choosing green lifestyle options; this includes where to go and what to do on honeymoon.
Date: May 16th, 2008 |
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Carbon Neutral Vacations and Tours
With the jury being out on whether offsetting carbon emissions actually works, a carbon neutral break seems only to be likely if you choose to cycle to an eco lodge in your own country, but not so, according to new Costa Rican tour operator on the block, Nature Vacations. They claim to be offering “the world’s first and only carbon neutral vacation” at a luxury ecolodge deep in the heart of the Costa Rican rainforest. But is it?
Date: April 29th, 2008 |
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Snow Leopard Vodka Fund New Conservation Projects
The boutique Snow Leopard Vodka has announced it will be funding two new conservation projects in conjunction with the International Snow Leopard Trust of Seattle, USA.
The first project intends to teach the children of Kyrgyzstan in an eco-camp to educate them about their mountain’s fragile ecosystem and how their input is needed in the future to ensure the long-term survival of the snow leopard. If the children understand more about the snow leopard they are less likely to kill it in the future.
The second project will take place in Mongolia where locals will be taught the importance of protecting the snow leopard instead of seeing it as a threat. This is key to the animal’s survival.
Snow Leopard Vodka have provided enough money to recruit and train a village about economic enhancement enterprise which will work by adding value to the community’s main resource, wool. The Snow Leopard Trust will also buy their raw wool and handicarfts directly and make sure they are sold to speciality traders around the world which will increase the villager’s incomes quite considerably enabling them to send the kids to school and buy more food and medicene. In return the families protect the snow leopards
Sue Brodie, Chair of Trustees of the Snow Leopard Trust UK says, “A big thank you to Snow Leopard vodka who not only share our beliefs and passion for community based conservation being the key to the survival of one of the world’s most beautiful creatures, but who are materially contributing to the cat’s survival. This funding from Snow Leopard vodka is allowing us to start conservation projects we simply would not be able to do without their help”.
Date: February 22nd, 2008 |
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