{"id":1618,"date":"2011-04-22T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2011-04-21T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:39:46","slug":"earth-day-reignites-quest-for-sustainable-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2011\/04\/22\/earth-day-reignites-quest-for-sustainable-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day Reignites Quest for Sustainable Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I reflect on Earth Day and what it means to me, I am reminded of all the ways we can help the earth even if we are traveling.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using ethically trained, local guides that adhere to environmental guidelines such as staying on designated trails and using pack-in\/pack-out practices<\/li>\n<li>Creating volunteer trips to clean the environment and help the local people<\/li>\n<li>Encouraging carbon offsetting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of us can also help locally:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working towards becoming a &#8220;Zero Waste&#8221; office (conserving energy, recycling, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Volunteering for environmental improvement projects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sustainable Travel International (STI) has some great information and tools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainabletravelinternational.org\/documents\/au_mission.html\">Videos on what is sustainable travel and how to do it<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabletravelinternational.org\/documents\/op_carboncalcs.html\">Carbon Footprint Calculator<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I reflect on Earth Day and what it means to me, I am reminded of all the ways we can help the earth even if we are traveling. Using ethically trained, local guides that adhere to environmental guidelines such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2011\/04\/22\/earth-day-reignites-quest-for-sustainable-travel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xxsg-q6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}