Green Travel Blogs.
Posted April 20th, 2008 by lizEveryone’s talking green this week with Earth Day (April 22) on the horizon.
Perceptive Travel is talking green too. Green travel that is.
Everyone thinks about doing it but green travel isn’t as easy as it sounds. So it’s great to know that there are a number of green travel blogs around collecting all the information and providing all the resources we need to help travel green.
Here’s two of my favorites…
Go Green Travel Green (Green Travel Tips for Savvy Travelers) - they cover everything from products and gear to where to stay and how to get there.
Sample post: How to Choose a (Healthy) Water Bottle: 34 Resources
Treehugger - they call themselves the ‘one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information’ and they’re not kidding. Everything and anything green can be found here. And they have a great travel+nature section.
Sample post: Amusing Reuse: Recycling At Copenhagen’s Tivoli
What’s your favorite green travel blog?
April 20th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
My favorite green travel blog is Intelligent Travel, produced by National Geographic Traveler magazine (where I work). We cover authentic and sustainable travel and we do it in a fun, non-preachy way. Sample post: tour a green hotel in North Carolina with video host Ali Ogden, who takes you behind the scenes from the rooftop solar panels to the geothermal refrigerators to the energy-generating elevators to the waterless urinals:
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2008/04/video.html
April 21st, 2008 at 10:32 am
Thanks for the link to Go Green Travel Green.
I also enjoy Intelligent Travel.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Me too on Intelligent Travel ;)
There’s also a magazine called Dwell, which is actually an architecture and design magazine, but a green travel aspect is that they do a lot of pieces on sustainable building and green redesigns, not only of homes but also of museums and eco-lodges.
For a technical aspect, might surprise everyone to know that the magazines of the IET and IEE (Institute of Engineering and Technology or something like that) have seriously well-written and accessible articles that address the future of energy and sustainability.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Hi marilyn,
Intelligent Travel is a definite on my morning reading list. And thanks for referencing that sample post. The video by Ali Ogden was realling interesting. Let’s face it - we mostly go by what the hotel tells us in regards their ‘green’ policy. To actually see behind the scenes of a green hotel is great. Looking forward to more videos by Ali.
No problem Elizabeth, Go Green Travel Green is always full of great posts
Nia, Thanks for tip about Dwell Magazine - they also have a blog