Go Green Travel Green

Partly because my last book review post Eat, Pray, Love Quotes was well received and partly because selfishly I want to have my notes from this book in one place for a reference I pulled together my favorite quotes from In Defense of Food…. But I contend that most of what we’re consuming today is no longer, strickly speaking, food at all, and how we’re consuming it — in the car, in frongt of the TV, and increasingly, alone– is not really eating, at least not in the sense that civilization has long understood the term.” “But who knos what else is going on deep in the soul of the carrot.

Amazon launched Amazon Green this week, which displays products users tag as eco-friendly.  But is it a good way to find green travel gear?
Not yet.
Right now, Amazon Green is a little hard to navigate. And because the system is based on tags, if you search for green travel products you come up with items like:

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We have a guest post up at Kayak.com about 5 (+1) Ways to Travel Green with Kayak.
If you haven’t checked out Kayak lately you’ll see that they have recently added features like sorting rental cars by miles per gallon. Remember whenever you use Kayak to give back to the environment by searching with Search Green [...]

Search for Plane Tickets, Hotels, Rental Cars using Search Green Travel. Search Green Travel is a brand new travel tool, created by Go Green Travel Green, to assist you in your travel planning…. You Don’t Have to Buy, Only Search Using Search Green Travel is an incredibly easy way to give back to the environment– all you have to do is search for cheap travel.

Last week we hosted a Traveler’s Social Media Love-In to encourage travelers to meet each other on various social networking sites. We’ve compiled all the users who submitted their StumbleUpon, Twitter, and Digg profiles and posted them below. We had a great turn out so be sure to check out these fellow travelers’ profiles and [...]

Why, exactly, are nonstop flights so much better for the environment than flights with a stopover? Here are some calculations: During a 143 mile direct flight (roughly Washington, D.C. to Philadelphia, PA), 51% of fuel burned is from the taxi, takeoff, climb, and landing…. During a 1,151 mile nonstop flight (roughly Washington, D.C. to Minneapolis, MN), a plane burns about 13,896 lbs of fuel (1,819 of which come from take-off and landing).

Welcome to this edition of the Green Travel Carnival! If you haven’t visited Go Green Travel Green before we invite you to look around. 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. [...]

I couldn’t help but notice a display for Coca-Cola’s new Drink 2 Wear “sustainable” apparel Stuart Kronauge, vice president of marketing at Coca-Cola North America said , “If the 200 million Wal-Mart shoppers in the U.S. purchase these shirts, they will help us reuse and divert more than 700 million bottles from the waste stream.”… And maybe I’m wrong here, but my best guess is that it takes a lot more resources to produce these plastic shirts than it does regular cotton shirts.

You should be fairly active in these social media sites (the idea is that you will find others to friend/follow; so it’s pointless if you don’t actually use these sites) In the comments below please post the html to your profile on StumbleUpon, Digg, and Twitter (starting with these three, if it makes sense to add other networks we will do this again another time) I will then create pages that compile all these links together. My plan right now is to leave this open until Wednesday night at 9pm (U.S. EST ), but if it gets out of control or I start getting a lot of spammy comments I reserve the right to shut it down earlier.

Here were some of the comments: Christine: What I would like to see specifically is Travel Blogging… promoting a travel blog, social networking for travel, what works, what doesn’t etc. All that technical and marketing stuff that isn’t covered anywhere, unless you look at Problogger.net, but then it’s so general it doesn’t apply…. That’s probably why there isn’t a place for it, and most of us just end up talking about this stuff via email with other bloggers.