June 25th, 2008 at 02:03pm
Under Eco-Travel
Jennifer Conlin writes in the NYTimes about a new trend in honeymooning: low- to no-impact, carbon neutral, and less wasteful post-wedding trips. Many of the honeymooners mentioned in the exposition were already interested in environmental and social issues, or professed to be, though they traveled to places like Kenya and Spain (to be fair the folks that went to Spain lived in England). It seems like one way to lessen the carbon footprint of a honeymoon would be to stay closer to home. Another is to follow in the very light carbon footprints of those who went on wwoofing honeymoons, working with the organization World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms.
If there is any restricted event in a person’s life that involves high levels of spending and waste generation, its the whole event of unifying two humans for life; any way we can green that is a step forward.
[Source] Leslie Wolcott
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June 24th, 2008 at 11:46am
Under Eco-Travel
Summer travel season is here, and Pope Benedict wants you to remember one thing: harming the environment is a sin. So, watch out all you globetrotters! The increasingly eco-friendly Vatican released a set of travel tips to the devout that week, including suggestions on how to compose your vacation more environmentally responsible. Apparently, the word on the street in Vatican City is: “One can choose to be a tourist at odds with the Earth or in favor of it.”
The notice comes as the latest in a series of environmentally-conscious initiatives by the Vatican — like going carbon-neutral and defining pollution as a “new sin.” The Pope’s travel tips aren’t really all that enlightening. They range from simply bringing less luggage on planes and other gas guzzlers, to offsetting your travel footprint by planting trees. Still, it’s pretty significant that Catholicism is going green. It kinda seems to raise the question: is any mold of tourism truly eco-friendly? Shouldn’t we just abolish vacation and work all the date? I’m kidding.
[Source] Josh Loposer
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