Recent Posts Tagged With 'evaluating choices'

• Top 5 Green Outdoor Activities

  Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 14:16 in camping, destinations, thailand, consciousness, ecotourism, ecosystem, natural resources, horizons, sea turtles, sedona, birdwatching, evaluating choices

  Outdoor activities that are people-powered (such as camping and kayaking) are naturally green. You can expand your environmental horizons when you visit other places by planning activities around the area’s natural resources or learning about t...

• Whole Travel

  Posted on Sunday March 30th, 2008 at 10:45 in lodging, ecotourism, evaluating choices

  Back from an all-too-long hiatus, and I wanted to recommend a new site that really ties into a lot of things we’ve tried to do with SimpleGreenChoices. It’s WholeTravel, a new website that’s trying to integrate environmental criter...

• Hilton or Marriott?

  Posted on Friday December 21st, 2007 at 11:38 in recycling, energy conservation, waste, hilton, laundry, epa, water conservation, marriott, compact fluorescent light bulbs, environmental impact, energy use, energystar

  The question at hand is: if I’m an environmentally conscious traveler, should I stay at a Hilton or a Marriott? Just to remind you that the idea here is that as a traveler, you wield an considerable amount of power with your wallet, so how sho...

• Trains, Planes, Automobiles

  Posted on Friday November 9th, 2007 at 14:03 in transportation, evaluating choices

  So, this month’s Travel & Leisure discusses the issue of whether it creates more greenhouse gases to drive, fly, or take a train.  Their conclusion: train is by far the most eco-friendly solution and driving actually produces more emission...

• Going Carbon-Neutral: Pros and Cons of Carbon Offsets

  Posted on Wednesday October 31st, 2007 at 13:13 in carbon emissions, environmental issues, summary, inconvenient truth, carbon offsets, spending, carbon neutral, treehugger, feel good, factors to consider, evaluating choices, terrapass

  The New Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year for 2006 was “carbon-neutral,” which gives you some sense of the fad that is carbon offsets. With the success of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, there is a rising wave of guilt about the...

• Traveling without Plastic Bottles

  Posted on Tuesday October 16th, 2007 at 01:14 in plastic, evaluating choices

  By now, the environmental sins of bottled water have been well-documented.  Bottled water is a luxury good in the developed world, where we can drink water that’s just as good (if not better) right out of the tap.  Plus, less than one-fourth...

• Selecting an Environmentally-Friendly Hotel

  Posted on Friday October 12th, 2007 at 11:07 in hotels, lodging, factors to consider, evaluating choices

  Whereas the environmental impact of transportation is fairly clear-cut, other travel decisions can be significantly more fuzzy. Lodging is a good example. What is it that makes a hotel environmentally friendly? Sure, it’s great to give guests th...

• Walking the Walk: Paying for Environmentally-Responsible Travel

  Posted on Wednesday October 10th, 2007 at 08:53 in spending, budgets, evaluating choices

  So after my last post, I got to thinking. What does it mean in practice to try to reduce your environmental impact (or “budget”) when you’re on vacation. Well, one obstacle is that some environmentally-friendly choices aren’...

• Choosing an Environmentally-friendly Destination

  Posted on Wednesday October 10th, 2007 at 03:11 in destinations, summary, factors to consider, evaluating choices

  Before you start planning a trip, you need to decide where you’re going, and since your choice of destination (and corresponding travel to/from) is a huge determining factor in the environmental impact of your trip, keep the following factors in mi...

• Rethinking Travel Budgets

  Posted on Monday October 8th, 2007 at 09:44 in budgets, factors to consider, evaluating choices

  So you’re planning a trip to Europe over the winter holidays, and you want to make sure you don’t have to cash out any of your 401K to do so (ouch!). Well, obviously a good idea might be to whip out an Excel spreadsheet and plan out a li...