Archive for October, 2007
You’re Invited to the BootsnAll Holiday Party
Being a responsible traveler often means learning directly from other travelers about the most eco-friendly travel options. That’s only one of the many reasons why you should come to the annual BootsnAll holiday party!
WHAT: BootsnAll Holiday Party
WHEN: Saturday, December 1, 2007 from 7pm until 11pm
WHERE: Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, 1945 NW Quimby St., Portland OR 97209
Our annual party is a great opportunity to meet up and socialize with other travel enthusiasts who are keen to share information, swap stories, and talk about how to go green. Plus, we’re giving away some great prizes this year, including a $500 voucher for …
Date: October 25th, 2007 |
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How to fly green
The hardest thing about travel to reconcile with an eco-friendly ethic is the flying. A cross-country flight emits as much C02 into the atmosphere as a car does in a year and flying is a major contributor to most traveler’s carbon footprint.
The easiest way to reduce your impact is to make the tough choice not to get a private jet and commit to flying commercially on every trip. If you’ve already chosen to give up the Leer-jet, or at least leave it in the garage most of the time, pat yourself on the back.
What’s that? You want to do more? Easy there, John Muir, don’t go overboard and burn out.
As a matter of fact, there are a few things you can do in addition to foregoing your private jet.
1. Fly direct- More fuel is consumed during takeoffs and landings than during any part of the flight. Eliminating as many takeoffs as possible lowers fuel consumption.
Date: October 17th, 2007 |
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The Inconvenient Tour Day 2
Welcome to another installment of The Inconvenient Tour, a multi-part series in which we give you the best destinations that the planet’s changing climate will soon render uninhabitable in a dramatic merging with the sea. Today’s fear mongering brings you the top five tourist attractions threatened by global warming, whether that be due to the rising water, melting ice, or a recent hastening of the shifting sands of time.
1. Chinguetti Mosque, Mauritania
Like a ninja’s investment portfolio, climate change’s deadly threats have diversified. Chinguetti Mosque was once one of Islam’s seven holy cities and an important stop on the trade routes across the Sahara desert. Thought to be high enough and definitely dry enough that the rising ocean wouldn’t threaten the Mosque, Chinguetti has instead experienced flash floods, extreme temperatures and rapid shifting of the sand dunes surrounding the city.
Date: October 10th, 2007 |
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Movie stars are green just like us
Shopping for a private island but can’t decide which unspoiled wilderness to bulldoze? Perhaps you should ask Leo DiCaprio’s opinion at the next Blackadore Caye neighborhood association meeting. DiCaprio purchased a share of the Belize island for about $1 million and is reportedly going to “respect the island’s wildlife and tropical surroundings” by building an ultra-exclusive eco-friendly resort on it.
Although the island is big enough to build an airstrip, there was no word as to whether DiCaprio and the rest of the Hollywood royalty that own the island would be flying directly to their villas …
Date: October 5th, 2007 |
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Off the Radar Destination: Bosnia
Eco-travel may be Bosnia-Herzegovina’s meal ticket. Although it is still trying to find their economic footing while they recover from the war of 1992-1995, Bosnia’s tourism industry has been maneuvering to reap the same seasonal rewards that Croatia enjoys when hosting a horde of tourists that bring their curiosity and appetites to their doorstep.
Although it can’t offer the warm oceans or balmy climate, Bosnia may be able to compete with Croatia when it comes to untouched, unspoiled wilderness and picturesque mountain peaks.
Travelers have been slowly rediscovering Bosnia as a tourist destination and …
Date: October 22nd, 2007 |
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The Greenest Blue
Aquacity named the World’s Leading Green Resort
In the inaugural year of a “Green” Category at the World Travel Awards, Slovakia’s Aquacity Resort brought home the top prize for an eco-tourism destination.
Aquacity’s ultra-violet purification system allow it to use less than 10% of the normal amount of chlorine and its geothermal heating system reduces both Aquacity’s heating bill and the environmental impact of operating the resort.
Aquacity claims to be “virtually carbon-neutral,” with plans to be completely self-sufficient by the end of 2007. The resort features an interconnected series of pools and slides and throws …
Date: October 15th, 2007 |
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Global Warming Destinations: An Inconvenient Tour
The ocean has been encroaching on our sand castles at a consistent 0.1 millimeters a year for the last 3,000 years. But for the last 14, that rate has increased to closer to 3 millimeters a year. Call it more intense solar activity, greenhouse gases or a liberal conspiracy, there’s a 90% chance of a 21-inch rise in ocean levels over the next 25 years.
A sizable chunk of the world is within 21 inches of sea-level, so in an effort to help you prioritize your travel, we’ve put together a list of the top destinations that will soon disappear if Mother Nature doesn’t fix the thermostat.
There is an inherent increase in consumption and impact on the ecosystem when someone chooses to travel, but that debate is for another time. You’re working with a limited time-frame. These sights will be underwater in 25 years. Get ‘em while they’re hot.
Date: October 8th, 2007 |
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