How To Travel Green

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Be kind to the environment on your next trip with these simple actions.

To complete this How-To you will need:

A green hotel
Restraint while packing
Public transportation or a hybrid rental
Your own toiletries
A carbon offset
Eco-friendly destination
Canvas shopping bag
Coffee mug
Water bottle
A day flight

Step 1: Consider eco-friendly destinations

Consider taking a vacation with a small carbon footprint. Options include traveling by rail to an area where you can get around without a car, staying in an eco-friendly resort that's made of recycled building materials and uses renewable energy, or booking a working vacation through an organization like Ethical Volunteering.

Step 2: Pack responsibly

Pack as lightly as possible to minimize the fuel required for transportation. If every American packed 10 fewer pounds, it would save some 350 million gallons of fuel a year.

Tip: Bring along a canvas tote bag, a commuter coffee mug, and a water bottle so you don't have to use plastic bags, Styrofoam cups, and bottled water on the road.

Step 3: Turn off and turn down

Unplug all your electronics and appliances when you leave home for your trip. Lower your thermostat and water heater.

Step 4: Take public transportation

Take public transportation wherever you can — to and from the airport or rail station, and at your destination. Or rent a hybrid car.

Tip: If you're flying, go by day. Due to complicated scientific reasons, night flights actually produce a greater warming effect than day flights.

Step 5: Pick a green hotel

Reserve a room in an eco-friendly hotel. If there is no certified green lodging where you're going, choose a nonsmoking hotel that allows guests to reuse their towels and linens, uses compact fluorescent lighting and nontoxic cleaning products, and helps guests recycle.

Step 6: Use your own toiletries

Ignore those little plastic bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and lotion in favor of your own toiletries.

Step 7: Turn off the lights

Turn off every light when you leave your hotel. If you're going to be gone all day, turn off the AC or lower the thermostat.

Step 8: Don't waste paper

Take only the tourist pamphlets that you really want or need.

Step 9: Buy a carbon offset

When you get home, counteract the carbon footprint you left by making a donation to a charity that helps reduce greenhouse gas, like climatetrust.org or nativeenergy.com.

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• environment
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• green
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[MosIonTaranul]

Do not fart! Scientists at University of Tanganika Davis

have recently dicovered that fart gas contribute to global warming.

If you have to fart, fart in a bag and seal it

-you could use it later as a balloon at your birthday party. Such a balloon will be called green-fart-birthday-balloon.

Go Green!

[jessieheartsyou]

i care about the enviroment so if that makes me a hippie well then i dont care

[UtubeCreature]

What You Need:

1) Green Shirt

2) Green Pants

3) Green Face Paint

Now you will travel green..... Literally!!!

Side effects may include being mistaken as Frankenstein, Shrek, and the Hulk.

[UrbanNokizaru]

There's no way to ride a plane that's green, there's no such thing as an environmentally friendly car, these things a so many other staples of our lifestyles are inherently destructive. You aren't saving the planet by doing this stuff you just being a little more gentle about destroying it. Fundamental social and cultural change needs to happen if we want to stop climate change...

[greyhoundmego]

@jessieheartsyou go you! me too! hahah whenever there r bottles in the trash i take them out and put them in the recycling!

[riddick0846]

im ok with helping the environment but lets not go 2 to far.

[Katantunoro]

They just don't paint hotel's green anymore...

[MachuPicchuTours]

Great video, thanks for sharing!

Saludos from Machu Picchu Peru!

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[ryanwitski]

hahaha true true.

[joewillgo]

You will also need a Mac! :)

[MeLikeGoFast]

Or just buy carbon credits from Al Gores company.

That will wash the guilt right away.

Idiots.