Travel Wild host Lin Sutherland snorkeling. Photo credit: Travel Wild
EarthCheck and Travel Wild have joined forces on a new series of television shows on Discovery Travel Channel.
This new series of shows will highlight destinations that have “taken sustainability to heart.”
Fancy an African volunteering vacation? Then check out the new Land Rover Go Beyond travel competition.
Five winners from the UK, one from Italy and one from Spain will join Land Rover’s sustainability partners Biosphere Expeditions in Namibia on their large cat project.
Winners will spend two weeks in the field working with endangered cats such as cheetahs, leopards and caracal.
Planning to participate on WTM World Responsible Tourism Day, November 10, 2010?
In association with the UNWTO, the World Travel Market global campaign is designed to inspire and educate the industry to help save the planet.
California vineyard and winery HALL Wines has won the International Award of Excellence in Sustainable Winegrowing from the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
The recognition will be awarded on October 8, 2010 at the Fête du Vin Wine Dinner and Auction in Fort Worth, Texas.
Certified by the California Certified Organic Farmers, HALL Wines has a US Green Building Council Gold LEED Certified winery – HALL St. Helena in Napa Valley.
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Summer concert experience, the Honda Civic Tour, with headliner Paramore, kicks off this week in Raleigh, NC.
The tour will visit 31 U.S. cities and finish in Anaheim, California this September.
What we love is that at every tour stop fans can visit the Honda Hybrid Zone. This zone will offer sustainability info and green activities such as a basketball contest with recyclable materials.
Possible-opolis VI, Madison Children’s Museum, Wisconsin. Photo credit: Erin Moore Photography
A new American children’s museum plans to help kids learn about sustainability through play.
The Madison Children’s Museum in Wisconsin is constructed from locally-harvested and repurposed materials.
Opening in mid-August, the green museum will use natural fabrics and recycled materials in upcoming exhibits.
OrganicNation.tv is now touring the Southwest U.S. and covering sustainable stories and the Gulf Coast oil spill.
At traveling greener, we’re fans of OrganicNation.tv so we want to share a video clip from their 2010 Southwest Tour.
In the above video, Dorothée Royal and Mark Andrew Boyer visit Austin’s Eastside Cafe which has it own green edible garden. Their other Southwest Tour videos cover topics including water scarcity in Arizona; beekeeping in Santa Fe and organic cotton farming in New Mexico.
For more videos, check out the OrganicNation.tv YouTube channel.
Do you want to learn more about sustainable tourism? EarthCheck has released a new series of free sustainability fact sheets, voluntary carbon offsetting information sheets and case studies of EarthCheck Members.
This sustainable tourism library was developed by Australia-based EarthCheck with the University of Queensland.
The material covers topics including renewable energy, water consumption, energy efficient air conditioning and green procurement. Each fact sheet shows real industry examples with capital investment costs; operational savings and the overall return on investment.
Says EarthCheck:
“We take seriously our responsibility to provide the travel and tourism industry with credible information regarding how best to reap the benefits associated with the greening of the global economy….These (sheets) help demystify the benefits of sustainable tourism and clarify the differences between an eco badge, and an environmental management system such as EarthCheck, which provides benchmarking and certification services and offers transparency through independent, third party audits.”
Download the sustainable tourism library here.
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Hamanasi Adventure & Dive Resort has become Belize’s first Green Globe Certified beachfront property.
Operating in 80+ countries, Green Globe is the “worldwide sustainability certification based on internationally accepted criteria for sustainable operation and management of travel and tourism businesses.”
The eco-resort began working towards its certification in September 2009 and achieved it in April 2010.
If you’ll be in New York City for Earth Day, then check out Earth Week, the week-long program of events at New York University.
On Earth Day, NYU will participate in the 40th anniversary celebration with a street fair, film and lectures, green projects and an environmental networking dinner. The university will get this big green party started early with a public panel discussion, movie screening and more. All events will be free and open to the public.
Here are 10 NYU Earth Week Events:
Image courtesy of NYU
