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Here’s your chance to win a $50 gift card and impact green travel. We’re helping to promote the CMI Green and BBMG first ever “Green Traveler Survey.”

Looking for a reusable bag, reusable shopping bag, reusable grocery bag, eco bag, or green bag? We’ve compiled the best green and eco bags to help you choose the one for you.

When I was finishing my master’s degree in community-based tourism and had worked all year with a rural community group in the small town of Quizarra, in Costa Rica, I had to start thinking about how I could help them create partnerships with an international tour operator…. The couple I accompanied from California said their favorite part was being in the community with the families, having lunch with them, learning how to make tortillas from scratch, taking a walk through beautiful primary forests on different families’ properties, and even riding in the back of their trucks!

Volunteer travel is an amazing way to see a place, get to know the locals, and leave a positive footprint. We volunteered while in Argentina, but there are plenty of local sites for volunteer travel.

Who wants to be able to make enough money — with little daily effort — to be able to afford travel forever?
I know I do.
My goal is to earn enough money to do whatever makes me happy and better able to help others — travel, volunteer, play tennis, go to law school.
This isn’t the usual [...]

12 Tips for Green Business Travel. Traveling green for business can be tough, but with these tricks and trips its easy to be a greener business traveler.

She picked me up in Portland and we saw some of the finest sights in The Beaver State (yes, that really is Oregon’s state nickname) on our way down the North Coast. Next time you’re in Oregon, I would definitely recommend a leisurely trip down the coast. It has it all: pop culture, wildlife, natural beauty, and cheese. What more could you ask for?

A reader recently asked me to go into further detail about the Klean Kanteen stainless steel water bottles including my likes and dislikes of their Klean Kanteen product. Here’s my Klean Kanteen Stainless Steel Water bottle review.

Our friends at the Conservation Law Foundation are hosting a giveaway this month. It’s an easy contest to enter — just send your favorite green tip and photo. Here are the details. Send the tip and picture to CLF. What You Win They have some really cool prizes — as a traveler I’d want to win 2nd place and get the Patagonia jackets and backpacks…. 2nd place: Patagonia Family Pack, which includes two top-of-the-line fleece men’s and women’s jackets, and two backpacks.

I was browsing the internet recently in search of an article for my Spanish class assignment when I came across this article (it’s in Spanish) from Clarin.com, an Argentine news agency, about the “ingenious” plan hatched by Chinese supermarket owners…. It turns out there’s a huge black market for coins in Argentina, which I was blissfully unaware of during my travels, that store owners are currently forced to turn to in order to have adequate change.

You can check out some of our popular posts via the tab on the right column or if you’re looking to start with the basics check out Green Travel 101 …. At Five Cent Nickel, Nickel writes How to Prepare for a Power Outage - Without a Generator Sarah Wozniak at The Green Radblog of Nico presents Waste and Reycling in a Nutshell: Don’t Throw it Out!

We have a few posting admin updates to start the week off with: I want to thank all of you again who purchased How to Find Cheap Airline Tickets …. We’ll be going back to our roots with the Tuesday/Thursday posts– focusing on green travel and travel stories.