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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.

Rather than being the one day a year when everyone does something to reduce their impact, then forgets about it until next year, Earth Day should be a time for resolutions and new beginnings…. I’ve been focusing my energies on seeking green ways to furnish and repair our new (to us - it was built in 1925) house and helping nonprofits navigate the world of social media and online marketing by launching a new division of a direct mail company.

Here are 5 ways that traveling with the weather will make your travels more eco-friendly: Packing Less Warm weather means that you need to pack less…. No Air Conditioning/Heat If you time your travel with the weather, you can visit most countries during a season where you won’t need heat or air conditioning.

Contrary to popular belief, it’s not easy to learn a language just by being in a country where it’s spoken. If you want your language skills to grow, you have to make an effort after you arrive. These tips will take you from timid beginner to confident pro.

In preparation for our upcoming travels in Central and South America, I’ve taken up studying Spanish.

…Luckily for me, there are tons of free resources out there to aid me on my mission. Here are 10 of my favorites.

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.

I struggle to be a vegetarian (and often fail) when I travel because I believe that to fully experience a culture or destination, you should try local foods — even foods you might not ever eat at home…. Plus, you can interact with the people — farmers and craftsmen alike — whose goods you’re buying, which is an interaction that can be harder to come by in the U.S. People.

I was skeptical when I first heard about carbon offsets, just as I would be about anything where you merely check a box, cough up a few dollars, and miraculously save the Rain Forest.
As I navigated the world of carbon offsets, I began to think that maybe it would have been easier to [...]

Studying abroad is a life-changing experience. (And, no, I’m not talking about the record amounts of alcohol consumed by students on their semesters abroad.) You meet new people, try new foods, and experience a new culture. Best of all, you’re completely independent.
As a temporary resident of your new country, you have a responsibility to leave [...]

Life is full of choices. Every day we choose when to get out of bed, what we are going to have for lunch, and how to reply to an email. Rarely do go off the beaten path into new territory; most days we stick to the routine. But if we step back from the [...]

Many travelers want to be environmentally-conscious when they travel, but don’t want to go to extremes to be greener. With all of the options out there, how do you determine the extent to which you want to “go green”?
We like to think of being an eco-conscious traveler in “shades of green.” Green, greener, greenest. [...]

We’re of the mindset that there’s only one way to pack, and that’s to pack light. Packing light saves time (e.g. waiting for baggage to be unloaded), money (no overweight fees), stress (no worrying about lost luggage) and the environment (less luggage means less fuel used to carry it).In our quest to bring you [...]

Meeting fellow travelers can be intimidating, especially when you first start traveling. But it doesn’t have to be. These tips and tricks will help you find fellow green travelers to join you on the next leg of your journey - whether it be a day in a nearby village or a month in Costa Rica.
Become [...]

As a traveler you have the opportunity to see amazing new things in far-away places, and as a green traveler you have the opportunity to preserve them for future generations. There are hundreds of reasons to be more environmentally-conscious and responsible when you travel.   Here are 15 of our favorites:

It’s Good for the Environment.  No [...]

Green, organic, eco-conscious, eco-friendly, responsible, sustainable, eco-tourism
In the past year, these environmental catchphrases have cropped up everywhere — in newspaper articles, online, in stores. But what do they all mean in the context of travel? Since these concepts are still in their formative stages, defining them is tricky. But we’ve compiled definitions from reputable [...]