Need some destination inspiration? Ruth Styles rounds up the travel blogs that are making greener getaways cool
… Top 10… green travel blogs Ruth Styles | 2nd March 2012 Ethical Living Travel Blogs Green Eco Sustainable Responsible Copenhagen Cycle Chic Green Traveller Ethical Traveller Ski Green Guide …
Under new planning rules, Travellers and Gypsies must be able to prove they are actually traveling to qualify for limited planning benefits to create new sites. But for many, it's impossible to do that. Not only to remain in employment, or education - but precisely because there are so few sites, that they are unable to travel.
… Travellers' and Gypsies' ethnic Catch 22 must … 2015 Comment Society Human Rights UK Politics travellers-site-recut.jpg Under new planning rules, Travellers and Gypsies must be able to prove …
Eschewing mass tourism for small groups, conservation and community involvement, Valentina Jovanovski has the lowdown on the green travel companies making a positive difference
… Top 10...environmentally friendly travel companies Valentina Jovanovski | 3rd June 2011 Ethical Living Travel Ecotourism Holiday Responsible Travel Adventure Trip Wildlife Hiking Nature …
Cutting the car out of the school run has health, social and environmental benefits for pupils, parents and teachers. Here's our guide to making it happen...
… School travel plans: how to successfully get your … made by car are under half a mile. A school travel plan aims to reduce car journeys to and … them, while encouraging the use of ‘active travel'. The creation of school travel plans …
Rail travel is the cheaper, greener, more comfortable way to go, so ditch your flight plan in favour of a fast train to the world. Rail aficionado 'the Man in Seat 61' explains why
… Train travel: the return of the journey Laura Sevier … Living Society Sleeper-Sell_MAIN.jpg Rail travel is the cheaper, greener, more … several days. Which is why, when it comes to travelling to Europe and beyond, travel by …
For today's tourists and travellers the elephant in the room is the jumbo jet which whisks us to our destinations - but pollutes the air, promotes destructive development, and isolates us from the the real world. Rose Bridger reviews 'Beyond Flying'.
… Beyond Flying: Rethinking air travel in a globally connected world Rose … For today's tourists and travellers the elephant in the room is the … communication, the book is an antidote to travel journalism which has no regard to the …
With the UK's business air travel falling, the Airport Commission says we need a new London runway to make us happy! But all their data really shows is that people who go on holiday lead happier lives than those who don't, writes Chris Goodall, and that people enjoy holidays: a flimsy basis on which to expand airport capacity, and blow the UK's emissions targets out of the water.
… With the UK's business air travel falling, the Airport Commission says we … because of a rising need for business air travel. The UK is missing out, the Commission … without Heathrow expansion the UK's leisure travellers would suffer. The Commission tells …
The National Planning Policy Framework will sideline smart growth in favour of out-of-town sprawl - rolling back decades of town centred development. Now campaigners have launched a toolkit to reduce travel demand within local transport plans
… Better Transport: how to reduce the need to travel Richard Bourn | 13th December 2011 … campaigners have launched a toolkit to reduce travel demand within local transport plans The … of measures can be used to manage demand for travel, including pricing mechanisms such as …
How can universities balance international recognition and research with lowering their carbon footprints?
… University sector travel emissions Milena Buchs | 12th July 2019 … is here – for many, a time for holidays and travelling, often by plane. Air travel has risen steeply on a global level. …
Can local people benefit from tourism? This guide takes you through the issues, and lists over 400 ethical holidays
… The Ethical Travel Guide by Tourism Concern Stephanie … Green Living Society Ethical Tourism Ethical Travel Tourism Concern ethical_travel_guide_cover.jpg Can local people … of almost US $500 billion. But ethical travel only accounts for a small percentage of …
With plane, train and automobile emissions still increasing,
are we being honest with ourselves about how and how often we travel? Matilda Lee looks at the bare necessities of transport
… Dilemma: How do you define unneccesary travel? Matilda Lee | 19th June 2009 Ethical Living Green Living Out And About Travel Aviation Climate Change … with ourselves about how and how often we travel? Matilda Lee looks at the bare …
Jean Vranic meets Pete Delaney, the remarkable traveller challenging stereotypes and proving that - even in modern Britain - alternative, sustainable lifestyles are still possible
… could inspire a new generation of horse drawn travellers Jean Vranic | 22nd June 2011 News Society Travellers Festivals Sustainable Living … Vranic meets Pete Delaney, the remarkable traveller challenging stereotypes and proving …
Ewan discovers that 'overland traveller' has become something of a category, but one into which he's happy to fit
… Are you an overland traveller? Ewan Kingston | 2nd December 2009 Comment Green Living Travel Indonesia ewankingston.jpg Ewan discovers that 'overland traveller' has become something of a category, …
Public transport often doesn't work for travellers because it's fragmented, deregulated and operated for short-term profit, writes Rupert Read. A Green transport policy would force operators to coordinate their schedules, integrate multiple transport modes, and entice travellers out of their cars building a real public transport 'system'.
… Public transport often doesn't work for travellers because it's fragmented, … multiple transport modes, and entice travellers out of their cars building a real … inspect, not what you expect." So if we who travel are to expect greener ways of getting …
Sustainable transport offers not only a golden ticket out of our pollution- and traffic-choked cities, but also a means of improving the health and well-being of travellers and society alike.
… of improving the health and well-being of travellers and society alike. People have … might be called ‘location efficiency’. People travel fewer miles by car in cities, consume … connected by roads optimised for speedy travel by car. This was called zoning, and in …
Climate Perks enables employers to offer paid ‘journey days’ to empower staff to choose low-carbon holiday travel.
… to empower staff to choose low-carbon holiday travel. One thing really sticks out for me … Action we’re working to make carbon conscious travel easier with a new scheme; Climate … is saved by choosing to stay grounded when travelling. Only a small proportion of us are …
One of the first travel companies to offer carbon offsetting to customers has decided to remove the facility from their website
… Eco travel agent ditches carbon offsetting The Ecologist | 15th October 2009 News Travel Carbon Emissions Climate Change Carbon Offsetting plane.jpg One of the first travel companies to offer carbon offsetting to …
We chartered a train to Glasgow for COP26 and took 500 people with us. This is what we learned.
… young people brainstorming ways to make rail travel more attractive. The mission of the … the need for alternatives to aviation. Rail travel has a markedly lower climatic impact … train, we effectively showed that rail travel is a viable, sustainable alternative to …
Ewan travels south through Laos and Thailand, discovering a landscape that speaks of the awkward throes of industrialisation...
… | 2nd November 2009 Comment Green Living Travel Sustainability ewankingofbus.jpg Ewan travels south through Laos and Thailand, … more urgent. Luckily, although a lot of travellers take flights even within Thailand, …
Carbon offsetting isn't perfect but Much Better Adventures’ partnership with environmental charity, the Converging World, has produced an initiative that just might work
… offsetting version two: a greener way to travel? Valentina Jovanovski | 12th May 2011 … Carbon Offset Carbon Offsetting Emissions Travel Greenhouse Gas Greenhouse Gases Carbon … around the corner, environmentally conscious travellers are looking for ways to make their …
Events hosted by Flight Free UK challenge the media to reconsider its promotion of flying.
… certainly worry that the job I do involves me travelling,” he said. “I have travelled by air only too frequently in the … promoting and benefiting from carbon-heavy travel promotion. The media likes to consider …
Though it was slow, choppy, wet and tiring, Ewan looks back on his wind-powered crossing to Australia as an experience worth every minute
… | 18th December 2009 Comment Green Living Travel Sustainability Flying catamaran.jpg … that on board were four others who were also travel without flying. Our captain was sailing … between Pakistan and Xinjiang, China. His travel snaps involved Kalishnikovs and burqas. …
The 110 members of the Climate Assembly UK are meeting for the second time in Birmingham.
… Climate assembly to scrutinise travel, homes, shopping Emily Beament | 7th … be grappling with how to cut emissions from travel, homes and shopping baskets this … to consider different topics of "how we travel", "in the home" and two linked areas of …
As adventure tourism exhausts its possibilities, what next?… A look at why we travel, its environmental impact, and where our final destination might be
… be green? Paul Miles | 2nd April 2009 News Travel Space Tourism Destination Alain De Botton Travel Society MoonTravel_MAIN.jpg As adventure tourism exhausts …