Sustainability and sustainable travel is more important than ever. While we incorporate sustainable travel practices in most destination-focused posts, we also focus articles on sustainability.
We offer examples and ways to do it, from our own experiences, both on the road and at home.
It might be easier to live a low waste lifestyle at home, at least once we get used to it, but a low waste road trip might require a little planning. Although, once you get used to it, it is not going to be difficult. It just requires a few extra steps before leaving, mainly […]
The theme for Earth Day 2023 is “Invest in Our Planet”. Each year we celebrate Earth Day on April 22nd, focusing everyone’s attention to things we need to do to save our earth, to combat climate change, and ultimately make life livable on our planet. Ultimately we do this for ourselves. Fact is, Earth and
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Living in the desert for decades made me more aware of our water needs and the need to save water than I’ve been before. And I’m proud to say that since it is a talked-about issue and the city makes it a point to send out notes about people’s usages, our household shows up as
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Today is World Nature Conservation Day. Although we most likely think of conservation every day, designating a day for it brings the issue to the forefront. In my household, it is an important issue, since my youngest child wants to be a wildlife conservationist. Yes, she knows what it means and has been explaining it
It’s Earth Day today. It’s not a day as any other day we celebrate something; It is a movement, the largest environmental movement on our planet. Earth Day started in 1970. That’s 52 years of environmental movement. By now, we should celebrate it only as a historical moment. We should be celebrating it as “this
Just in time for Earth Day, I read Kings of a Lonely Kingdom by David Mahood, a compilation of the author’s Earth Day Essays, Poems, and Musings on Nature. Nature and ecology author David Mahood shares ten years of his thoughts, in the form of essays and poetry, about Earth Day, about the way humanity
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By now, we all know that plastic harms the environment, and we should eliminate it from, or at least use as little as possible in, our everyday lives. Though our household is not fully plastic-free, we try to be as close to it as possible – considering we live in the US. As part of
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The theme for Earth Day 2021 is “Restore Our Earth”, and this is what we should all strive to do now. It is no longer enough to protect our planet; we’ve damaged it over the years to the point that we need to find ways to restore it. We should celebrate Earth Day every day,
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Today marks the first day of the International Dark Sky Week this year, designated for April 5-12, bringing the importance of dark skies into focus and trying to educate people about the importance of reducing light pollution. While everyone knows and talks about air pollution, finally getting to the point where we (at least most
As 2020 ended and I got to be a year older (on the last day of the year), I found myself reflecting upon the past year, a year of general uncertainties, considered one of the worst in recent history. The world has seen more changes in one year than in most others, most of them
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Responsible travelers are aware of their impact on the environment and the local economy. Sustainable travel and ethical travel also express the same idea: we need to be aware of our impact when we travel. In the end, that also translates into having a better experience overall. After all, we travel to learn about new
