Green Traveler Guides for Individual Travelers
Traveling to an Event?
- Start by carpooling if you can't walk, bike or take public trans!
- If you live nearby, can you host someone staying overnight?
- For food, bring your own resusable mug, plate, utensils & napkin.
- Little artistic idea: Bring your own nametag!
Your impact on the planet at an event depends on the event: do they recycle, compost, make it easy to find a neighbor; is the event t-shirt organic?
You can have a big impact by speaking up and encouraging the event to be green!
Traveling to a Hotel & Eating Out?
- The National Recycling Coalition has a good short summary. Their site in general has many tips on recycling, and is worth exploring.
- I'm still waiting for the perfect green restaurant guide, but the resources
are getting better.
- Vegetarian food uses tends to be much less resource intensive, and I find
that many veg restaurants are green in other ways. Send your attendees to
Happy Cow's vegetarian restaurant guide.
- In the San Francisco area, and soon Miami, Thimmakka now has a list of
restaurants that have taken steps to being green-certified. Their work tends to focus more on the
restaurant (efficient lighting? recycle and compost?) rather than the food.
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