Thursday, November 29, 2007
Climate change: "Carbon footprint" enters everyday vocabulary - Yahoo! News
Climate change: "Carbon footprint" enters everyday vocabulary - Yahoo! News: "PARIS (AFP) -
Taking a bicycle on vacation without a support vehicle wasn't mentioned in this article but it is a big deal on this blog.
Buying locally-produced fruit and veg, riding bikes or taking the train instead of using private cars, buying carbon offsets and staging carbon-neutral weddings: all are part of the climate-change awareness taking root in many countries."
Taking a bicycle on vacation without a support vehicle wasn't mentioned in this article but it is a big deal on this blog.
A bus emits between 10 and 20 times less CO2 than a car, and both are of course beaten for greenness by walking and cycling if distances permit.
Labels: bicycle, carbon, climate, SLOW_bicycling, sustainability
Friday, November 02, 2007
Responsible Travel, Tourism, Cultural Programs, Improving International Understanding
Responsible Travel, Tourism, Cultural Programs, Improving International Understanding:
"'The triple bottom line of responsible tourism is 3 E’s: environmental sustainability, engaging in the local economic, and enriching your life from the culture. Actually, it is about the same for all life.' David Mozer"
From Tourism, Eco-Tourism And Bicycle Tourism
"Activists who are interesting in changing tourism must first work to reshape the values -- from quantitative to qualitative -- that people use to measure their holidays.
"'The triple bottom line of responsible tourism is 3 E’s: environmental sustainability, engaging in the local economic, and enriching your life from the culture. Actually, it is about the same for all life.' David Mozer"
From Tourism, Eco-Tourism And Bicycle Tourism
"Activists who are interesting in changing tourism must first work to reshape the values -- from quantitative to qualitative -- that people use to measure their holidays.
Labels: bicycle, RIDE SLOWLY, sustainability, travel
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Sustainable Urban Transport Project - Home
Sustainable Urban Transport Project :
"GTZ-SUTP announces the release of a new module titled “Transport and Climate Change'. The module summarises the challenges that climate change mitigation has to face in the transport sector and presents the major options and instruments to deal with them."
For more links and information on "environmentally conscious, social and economic growth around the globe through the advancement of affordable bicycle transportation," go to YUBA.
"GTZ-SUTP announces the release of a new module titled “Transport and Climate Change'. The module summarises the challenges that climate change mitigation has to face in the transport sector and presents the major options and instruments to deal with them."
For more links and information on "environmentally conscious, social and economic growth around the globe through the advancement of affordable bicycle transportation," go to YUBA.
Labels: bicycle, slow movement, SLOW_bicycling, subversion, sustainability
