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By: A Greener Spring Break! « Autonomie Project’s Blog

A Greener Spring Break! « Autonomie Project’s Blog — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:53:06 +0000

[...] booking your Spring Break plans, we recommend reading our entry, written earlier this year on Eco-Tourism for some great green ideas such as staying local and green tour companies. But beyond that post, we [...]

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Bookmarks about Tourism — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:15:34 +0000

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By: Keep Green while Saying “I Do” « Autonomie Project’s Blog

Keep Green while Saying “I Do” « Autonomie Project’s Blog — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:22:40 +0000

[...] travel or you can book with a number of different eco tours, hotels, or bed and breakfasts. See our Eco-tourism post for more [...]

By: autonomieproject

autonomieproject — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:28:50 +0000

Thanks so much for the info and the website. I have added it to websites that are helpful in finding green lodging. We really appreciate your input and thanks again! We will surely use the site!

By: larryvance

larryvance — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:30:53 +0000

Something to help with your point number 3:
There are a lot of ways that we as aware and responsible citizens can play a major role in helping to minimize damage to Mother Earth – and ourselves in the long run. Some are not easy and some may be costly, but we have to do the best we can. Fortunately, one of the easy things to do is be aware of our traveling habits, and select “green” accommodations whenever available, not just those who say they’re doing something, but those who actually are. This is made possible through a website I’ve run across recently, iStayGreen.org. There we not only are able to locate hotels which are environmentally conscious, but more importantly, we are encouraged to rate the facilities we stay at on many factors of “greenness”, and several thousand already are rated. As time goes on the tremendous volume of rating information we as travelers provide will insure the accuracy of the program. This doesn’t just help other travelers, it takes paying for ratings out of the equation, and puts pressure on hoteliers to do as much as they can to be well rated. It also will expose those who want to take advantage of being green in name only, but not do anything positive. The iStayGreen.org people have set up a social networking system on their site, so groups with like interests can advise each other easily to exchange information, and also bring more pressure to bear on the facilities which talk but don’t do. This not only helps us to do our part, but rewards hotels whose management has a genuine interest in preserving our planet for future generations. It’s about time something like http://www.iStayGreen.org came along.