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June 25th, 2008 at 02:03pm
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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
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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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April 9th, 2008 at 07:19am
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For the first instance since before our kids were born, my husband and I are planning an extended backpacking trip that summer. It’ll be an eight day trip in honor of our eight-year anniversary. Don’t concern, that kind of trip is our kind of fun, we spent nearly a month backpacking, climbing at high altitude and sleeping in a tent on our honeymoon. We have good karma on the trail, even when a nasty storm is rolling in and he’s still tying knots to secure the bear-proof food hang. Geez, that always sets me off.
But I have to be real about that summer’s trip. The final day I hiked deep into the woods for days with 45 pounds on my back was pre-motherhood — I was around 32 — I’m now 40. I additionally ruptured my achilles final summer and am still recovering. Frankly, I’m nervous about carrying that kind of weight for days at a duration. Will my older body handle the pounding? Will I devote sufficient duration to train properly? Let’s get right to it — will I suck?
While I cannot train lightly, I have thought about significantly lightening my load by following ultralight hiking principles. whether I can even get my backpack down to 35 pounds from 45 pounds (not a total ultralight weight), I will take major strain off the bod. Charles Lindsey (pictured), author and publisher of The Lightweight Backpacker website lays out dozens of ways to lift ounce after ounce off your aching shoulders. Ounces add up to pounds.
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Original post by Bev Sklar
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March 15th, 2008 at 09:25pm
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If you like to daypack, backpack and volunteer for a good cause in the great outdoors, the 2008 American Hiking Society’s (AHS) Volunteer Vacations may be for you.
On these trail stewardship programs across America’s public lands, you’ll join anywhere from 4-16 volunteers to rebuild eroded trails, perform ecological restoration, “log out” fallen trees and perform other general trail maintenance duties. that year, AHS is offering 75 trips across 25 states. Trips cost a mere $275 and include food, but you will have to cover transportation to the starting line. Trips are rated from easy to very strenuous depending on length of backpacking or daypacking due to reach base camp. Accommodations range from cabins, bunkhouses and car camping to primitive camping.
As a past National Sierra Clubs Outing leader (backpacking and canoe trips), I can attest to the calories you’ll burn and the muscle you’ll build on outdoor work trips. You’ll additionally be surrounded by a fascinating group of society willing to give their instance to public lands enjoyed by all. I adore Sierra Club participants, we always had a lot of laughs, terrific campfire conversations and relative age didn’t matter. I suspect AHS attracts a similar brood.
I’m closely looking at AHS’s Flathead National Forest trail maintenance trip in Montana that July. Here’s a complete list of their 2008 trail stewardship projects. The AHS website additionally has a FAQs section which is fairly helpful to reply initial questions.
Original post by Bev Sklar
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February 6th, 2008 at 07:49am
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In the Florida Keys Earth Day is the year’s biggest draw at famous Cheeca Lodge in Islamorada. The Queen Conch Restoration Project on Long Key is the current hands-on project, and local high school students conduct a “Coral Reef Classroom” on Cheeca Rocks. Nowadays the way to go after deep-sea fish is catch-and-release with the Keys chapter of the Nature Conservancy a regular benefactor of tournaments.
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February 6th, 2008 at 07:26am
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How often do you spend outdoors? Researchers sought to reply that question for many of Americans by tracking the visits to National parks which included hiking and camping. What they found was that we spend 25% less of our time external doing these natural recreation activities than Americans did in 1987.
That’s about a 1 percent drop per year, for the past 20 years. that study didn’t include citizens doing their own thing external of these parks though. What’s the cause of that decline in interest regarding Mother Nature? Well, you probably don’t have to guess whether you’re reading that right now: TV, computers and other electronic time-wasters help occupy our schedule.
I don’t think it is entirely fair to point fingers at these things exclusively, but they do lend themselves to indoor lifestyles. Of course, not everyone has a computer at home — I actually know humans without cable TV! So that doesn’t describe all Americans, but it’s an interesting report nonetheless.
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