We all hear the term “global warming” the whole time. In recent months I have started to travel stories, like the permanent ice cap of Mount Kilimanjaro is melting, as we read in the Alpine ski resorts go, be permanently closed due to lack of snow has fallen, as the glaciers melt in the Arctic, as always more frequent and severe weather disturbances are disturbances tourism, and so on go the stories. Some of these stories there is even exhorting us go now before some of themscenic places are transformed or disappear forever. Climate change has become an issue for global travelers.
Travel is, of course consequences for the environment. Long-distance travel involves the creation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are pollutants, some of the strongest aircraft in existence today. Moreover, wherever we go, we consume food and other services, and we create waste. What to do?
As far as aircraft emissionsconcerns, there are indeed some concrete things we can do. There are ways to offset greenhouse gas emissions from air travel by purchasing trees to be planted, generated to compensate for these emissions. Trees for the future, your U.S. $ 40.00 actually pay for the planting of 400 trees, which will help offset greenhouse gases. You also get a global cooling certificate and sticker. On their website you will find a list of partners, including the lodgeand bed and breakfasts that are run by renewable energy.
The Rainforest Alliance offers a variety of information on the actual eco-savvy travelers. They also offer a sustainable tourism certification for tourism enterprises based on methods to reduce the consumption of water, energy and other resources and the management, treatment and disposal of waste is improved. They even a toolkit for best practice in sustainable tourism for small and medium-sizedBusinesses in the tourism industry.
On its website, the Rainforest Alliance is committed for a number of simple environmental practices that we can all try to follow:
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