Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Yoga Journal promotes green travel, More on air travel
Yoga enthusiast and good friend, Dave Lacey, sent the following article about the Inn Serendipity in Wisconsin (see link to Yoga Journal below). Check out "Trees for Travel" which is mentioned.
You can catch Dave's radio show "Any Old Time," an ecclectic, if not eccentric, program on KUAC in Fairbanks, Alaska at http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuac/. I've been a guest on the show a few times and loved helping out on a "70s Tulsa Music Review" featuring Leon Russell, Gaillard Sartain, Jesse Ed Davis and more. Thanks for the info Dave!
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Green Acres
Help renew the environment on your next vacation.
http://www.yogajournal.com/travel/1797_1.cfm?ctsrc=nlv206
By Mary Bolster
If you spend a weekend at Inn Serendipity (www.innserendipity.com) in Browntown, Wisconsin, you can tell your friends your vacation actually helped renew the environment. Owners John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist have thought of everything: They'll even purchase a certificate for you from Trees for Travel, which will plant a tree to offset the CO2 you used to get to their place via plane, train, or automobile.
Although the business isn't making the owners millionaires, it is allowing them to take exceptional care of the land. "We're a new kind of farmer," Ivanko says. "We're more concerned with the stewardship of the land and the health of the soil than with what we're making per acre." Ivanko is now helping others go green. He and Kivirist wrote Rural Renaissance, a book that tells you how to make the move from urban to rural (www.ruralrenaissance.org).
Today there are more sustainable inns than ever, a trend that can be tracked at www.greenpages.org, a directory of socially and environmentally responsible companies that includes listings of eco-friendly B&Bs.
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Trees for Travel (from)
http://www.treesfortravel.nl/
Why Trees for Travel?
Trees for Travel is neither a tour operator, travel agency, nor booking office. You just make reservations and fly with the company of your choice. As an extra, with Trees for Travel you can contribute a modest amount per flight that goes towards neutralising the greenhouse effect... Trees for Travel Stichting is a Dutch foundation; but because the greenhouse effect is a world-wide problem and is not covered by the Climate Treaty, people from all over the world also need the opportunity to do something about it.
Planting forests throughout the world
With your contribution, new forests will be planted, and the restoration of forests that have suffered heavily from acid rain and unmanaged logging will be financed. The Trees for Travel program invests, among other things, in projects in Uganda, and Ecuador. In practice that means: ยท
*Planting native tree species, which are capable of withstanding local conditions well.
*Involvement from the local population. The work has to be carried out by local experts and in co-operation with local and regional organisations.
*Ecological forestry: no use of artificial fertilizers or pesticides.
*A long life for the forest. The manager has to be able to guarantee that the forest will stand for at least 50 years. For that, income from tourism, for example, or from forestry, is necessary. That way the forest creates employment opportunities, which gives the local population incentive to maintain the forest.
You can catch Dave's radio show "Any Old Time," an ecclectic, if not eccentric, program on KUAC in Fairbanks, Alaska at http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuac/. I've been a guest on the show a few times and loved helping out on a "70s Tulsa Music Review" featuring Leon Russell, Gaillard Sartain, Jesse Ed Davis and more. Thanks for the info Dave!
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Green Acres
Help renew the environment on your next vacation.
http://www.yogajournal.com/travel/1797_1.cfm?ctsrc=nlv206
By Mary Bolster
If you spend a weekend at Inn Serendipity (www.innserendipity.com) in Browntown, Wisconsin, you can tell your friends your vacation actually helped renew the environment. Owners John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist have thought of everything: They'll even purchase a certificate for you from Trees for Travel, which will plant a tree to offset the CO2 you used to get to their place via plane, train, or automobile.
Although the business isn't making the owners millionaires, it is allowing them to take exceptional care of the land. "We're a new kind of farmer," Ivanko says. "We're more concerned with the stewardship of the land and the health of the soil than with what we're making per acre." Ivanko is now helping others go green. He and Kivirist wrote Rural Renaissance, a book that tells you how to make the move from urban to rural (www.ruralrenaissance.org).
Today there are more sustainable inns than ever, a trend that can be tracked at www.greenpages.org, a directory of socially and environmentally responsible companies that includes listings of eco-friendly B&Bs.
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Trees for Travel (from)
http://www.treesfortravel.nl/
Why Trees for Travel?
Trees for Travel is neither a tour operator, travel agency, nor booking office. You just make reservations and fly with the company of your choice. As an extra, with Trees for Travel you can contribute a modest amount per flight that goes towards neutralising the greenhouse effect... Trees for Travel Stichting is a Dutch foundation; but because the greenhouse effect is a world-wide problem and is not covered by the Climate Treaty, people from all over the world also need the opportunity to do something about it.
Planting forests throughout the world
With your contribution, new forests will be planted, and the restoration of forests that have suffered heavily from acid rain and unmanaged logging will be financed. The Trees for Travel program invests, among other things, in projects in Uganda, and Ecuador. In practice that means: ยท
*Planting native tree species, which are capable of withstanding local conditions well.
*Involvement from the local population. The work has to be carried out by local experts and in co-operation with local and regional organisations.
*Ecological forestry: no use of artificial fertilizers or pesticides.
*A long life for the forest. The manager has to be able to guarantee that the forest will stand for at least 50 years. For that, income from tourism, for example, or from forestry, is necessary. That way the forest creates employment opportunities, which gives the local population incentive to maintain the forest.
