Green and volunteer travel
Carbon offsets, volunteering, WWOOFing and couchsurfing.
Volunteer for an Adventure Travel
More travelers are looking to combine volunteerism with adventure travel for a more meaningful experience. This can be a win-win situation for all.
Adventures in Carbon Reduction: StepItUp '07
If you've looked at just about any magazine or major newspaper that does any environmental coverage whatsoever over the past month, the odds are that you've probably heard about Bill McKibben's…
Offsetting the Greenhouse Gases from our Travels
Time to promote both myself and a good cause - the future of the earth. Later today, a story I produced for NPR's Justice Talking will be fed over the satellite to public radio stations nationwide…
Ride for Climate: The Americas
In the grand tradition of publicity stunts involving people riding, walking, running or hitchhiking for something, here's yet another: Ride for Climate: The Americas "Starting in November 2005, I am…
More on Couchsurfing
After my recent post on couchsurfing.com, I found this USA TODAY article pimping out a few more options for finding a place to crash for little or no cash: A number of websites have sprung up to help…
Wwoofing: An Adventurous way to get your hands dirty
We've delved into the world of Wwwoofing here in the past, although I don't think I identifed it by it's proper name last time.
CouchSurfing - Creating a Better World, One Couch At A Time
Here's a site that lends serious new meaning to budget travel. If you're like me, you prefer meeting people in a dark, seedy bar in nowhere, Romania to actually meeting someone via the internet.
Transatlantic 21: Holy Green Eco-EuroBalls, Batman!
Major props to another batch of crazy Euros with an environmental bent . These folks are taking off to cross the Atlantic in a Solar powered skiff, that looks more like something I once rode on a…
How Green of an Adventurer are you?
Do you ever feel a twinge of guilt zipping across the planet on hundreds of gallons of jet fuel just so you can explore a new locale far from the smog-choked metropolises of home?