archives: Green Travel
Nature For Sale: The Growing Trend Of Wilderness Consumption
Has hiking becomes just another consumer activity? [...]
Will Religion Prevent Us From Saving The Planet?
It just might, with nearly half the American population anticipating the end of the world. [...]
Planet Love: How Will You Celebrate Earth Day?
Join the party with 1 billion others around the world. [...]
The Inconvenient Truth About Green Travel
Jennifer Bernstein says green travel is more complex than you think. [...]
Why The Road To Climate Catastrophe Is Paved With Cheap Flights
The years I’ve spent traveling and living abroad have made a radical impact on my world-view and shaped me into who I am today: someone who str [...]
Interview: ‘The Man In Seat 61′ On The Joys Of Green Travel
If you happen to be traveling from London on Eurostar and poke your head into first class, you’ll probably see Mark Smith in Seat 61. He’ [...]
5 Green Travel Destinations For 2008
As the world gets wise to warming and brave new travelers embrace low impact lifestyles, green travel has become one of the fastest growing segments o [...]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Hitchhiking
My mother always said she had only two rules for me in life: “Never ride a motorcycle and never hitchhike. That’s all I ask. Everythin [...]
The Ultimate Vegan’s Guide To Finding Food On The Road
Finding vegan food on the road can be a challenge. But it’s not impossible…with these tips. “You’re vegan? What do you eat? [...]
What Henry David Thoreau Taught Me About Travel
Thoreau understood something that many of us modern day nomads would do well to recognize: travel is a matter of perspective, not location. Henry D [...]
The Lazy Environmentalist’s Guide to Reducing Your Tourism Footprint
You have a copy of An Inconvenient Truth on your nightstand that you-at some point-intend on reading. You carry the plastic Nalgene water bottle to r [...]
A Manifesto From A Young American
Today I ended my hypocrisy. Today I sold my stock in multinational corporations. Today I made a step towards moral and existential sanity. Today I [...]
5 Reasons Why Slow Travel Beats Going On Vacation
Let me start by offering the disclaimer that I have no particular use for what is commonly called a “vacation.” “Vacation” is [...]
An Argument For Action On Global Warming
These days, everyone seems to agree the planet is warming up. What we don’t agree on are the reasons why: human caused or natural? Personally [...]
The Crisis Of Too Much Energy
You may have heard of the recently announced collaboration between the University of California and BP in a big-money deal to research biofuels and th [...]
Calculating The Real Cost Of Travel
Travelistic recently sat down with Michael Mandiberg, creator of Real Costs, a web plug-in that hopes to raise traveler consciousness by defining car [...]
The Future Of Mass Transit - Part I
More people, more vehicles, more of everything means new ways of navigating our cities. In the six years I’ve lived in Los Angeles, four of t [...]
Can We Buy A Better Future?
Considering the impact constant growth has inflicted on the planet in the last few decades, can consumerism be harnessed to save the planet? This que [...]
Can International Travel Ever Be Sustainable?
What Manhattan might look like if sea levels continue to rise. Photo illustration by John Blackford; original photograph by Cameron Davidson (feature [...]
The Truth About Carbon Offsets
First do no harm. It’s a maxim I try and live by, especially when I travel. I keep my ecological footprint to a minimum-at home by cycling ins [...]
What Cuba Taught Us About Peak Oil
What can Cuba teach the rest of the world of sustainability? When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, the impact on the Cuban economy was devastating [...]
Interview with Derek Wallace from OrganicReform.org
As previously mentioned, Derek Wallace is a guy on a mission. He’s embarking on a world-wide tour working on organic farms to write a book abo [...]
The First Casualties of Climate Change
My friend has a sense of humour. For Christmas, he gifted me a darkly hilarious “Global Warming Mug” - a mug featuring the world’ [...]
Sustainable Organic Farming and You
Derek Wallace is a guy on a mission. He’s embarking on a world-wide tour working on organic farms and in exchange for room/board through a net [...]
Conserve Water, Not Irony
In Bangkok, it’s common knowledge that you don’t drink the tap water. Everyone carries around their plastic water bottles instead. And [...]
How To Make Your Flights Carbon Neutral
Some distressing news recently surfaced with the publication of a new report measuring the ecological footprint of the human species. It was decided [...]
