Environmental friendly and sustainable tips for traveling and tourism.
Sustainability Blog Sustainable chocolate How to grow sustainable cocoa to produce chocolate and energy? The main ingredient of chocolate is cocoa beans. Originally from what’s now called Ecuador in South America the cocoa bean slowly traveled north over the American Continent and became famous for its use in Maya and Aztec ceremonies. Easy access to […]
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Sustainability Blog Fly more sustainable How can we start now with making flying more sustainable? Compared to other sectors, aviation is a relatively small contributor to global greenhouse emissions, but it was also one of the fastest growing. Between 2000 and 2019, there was a 5% average rise in flights per year; by 2019,
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Sustainability Blog Ancient Water Management Why Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water Why it is important to travel and learn from other cultures. Mankind has been for millennia on this planet and our current climate problems are not the first and will not be the last either. Although we often consider our current
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Sustainability Blog Default Sustainable The Default Sustainability Approach What if we can make our society and tourism more sustainable without having to change much of our human belief structures? This approach is called: “The sustainable environmental friendly default approach”. A study in Nature looked at non-monetary incentives that encourage pro-environmental behavior and can contribute to combating
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Sustainability Blog Teleférico in La Paz Sustainable cable cars above La Paz, Bolivia The city of La Paz in Bolivia provides a good example of how the improvement of public transport can be beneficial for its citizens, the environment and tourism. La Paz has around 800.000 inhabitants and is located in a steep valley. At
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Sustainability Blog Geothermal Power Unlimited clean energy and tourism? Geothermal energy is heat derived within the sub-surface of the earth. Water and/or steam carry the geothermal energy to the Earth’s surface. Depending on its characteristics, geothermal energy can be used for heating purposes or be harnessed to generate clean electricity. Globally, geothermal energy is
Sustainability Blog The power of movement https://usercontent.one/wp/www.tourismvsclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Movement-inspires.mp4 The power of movement inspires The title of this short positive video about the First of January is actually “Movement Inspires”. It’s a great inspiring video about the importance of movement, movement from exercise and traveling, but also movement of the spirit and the soul. Like when
Sustainability Blog Space Travel 18. Space traveling to explore new areas and development On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to set feet on the moon. What few people know is that they left a silicon chip with 73 goodwill messages from leaders around
Sustainability Blog Dangerous online platforms 14.6 The danger of bookings websites When bookings websites started in the 90s they provided a great tool for especially the lesser-known, not so well organized, and new businesses. Hotels without a (good) website, with a slow responding rate to reservations, or even not very good hotels took quick
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Sustainability Blog Izhcayluma 14.5 Izhcayluma Eco Lodge Many new (fancy) Eco Lodges aim on high end tourism, which makes them vulnerable to fluctuations and often put them out of price range for national tourism. Instead the rustic Izhcayluma Eco Lodge in Vilcabamba, Ecuador has come close to implementing many of the recommendations about sustainable tourism.