Part of Windows Live Spaces, EcoTrip is four students making their way across the country by bike, train and other eco-friendly modes of transportation. Along the way they are stopping to raise eco awareness and perform volunteer activities. You can follow their adventure and get some useful eco travel tips along the way. The tour ends July 7th at Giants Stadium with a concert.
Eco Trip Summer 2007
Cross-Cultural Solutions is an international not-for-profit organization with no political or religious affiliations. It offers international volunteer programs in 12 countries, start dates year-round and programs from 1-12 weeks long. CCS operates in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Morocco, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Thailand. CCS volunteers work in the areas of Social Services, Education and Health such as: Caring for infants & children, Teaching children, Teaching English, Assisting teachers, Observing and assisting local health professionals, Working with people affected by HIV/AIDS, Caring for the elderly, Caring for people with disabilities and Assisting teachers of Special Education. See the world while helping people, helps our planet, too.
Get all the info at Cross-Cultural Solutions
TOURISM for TOMORROW announced its 2007 Finalists and one of the finalists for the “Destination Award” is the State of Vermont. Vermont is my home state. ( I lived there the first 18 years of my life and regularly visit several times a year) Vermont is working on a major revitalization effort for many of the state’s major downtown areas. By focusing on a community’s history and historic buildings, it has been demostrated that keeping the downtowns alive builds the local economy and cultural institutions, while supporting growth in a way that minimize environmental impacts (cuts out suburban sprawl!!). Vermont, is indeed, home to many quaint funky small towns and I applaude Tourisim for Tomorrow for recognizing it. Go Vermont!!
Info on Tourism for Tomorrow
Info Visiting Vermont
Fun ride treking from Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh—on the country’s most popular canal towpath and the Northeast’s premier rail-trail. The 335-mile tour occurs June 23–30, 2007, and will lead 500 cyclists on the ride of their lives on the longest multi-purpose trail in the country. Twenty-two meals are included. Accommodations are either in your supplied tent or a vendor supplied tent (they do all the putting up and taking down) Campsites may be open fields, town parks or standard campgrounds.
Get all the details online at Rails to Trails
Travel out ot one of the most beautiful places in the USA, to Big Sur, California. Spend a week working with the US Forest Service improving eroded trails. This area is prone to fires and brush clearing may be added to the agenda.
Price: $395 includes all meals and camping at Divide Camp, an area located among mature pine and oak trees near the junction with the Pine Ridge and Carmel River Trails. April 28-May 5, 2007 More info at SierraClub.org
Join the University of Vermont Educational and Cultural Tours and learn about fair trade, organic, and shade-grown coffee. Open to the public, this tour is for coffee enthusiasts, coffee professionals, students, environmentalists, and social justice advocates. Participants will gain hands-on experience and first-hand insight into the day-to-day reality of small coffee producing families and their communities. Tour members will observe why coffee is related to some of the most urgent and critical issues of our times. Join us to see why seemingly unrelated subjects - from illegal immigration and illegal drugs, to the decline of migratory songbirds and the disintegration of farming communities in Latin America - all come together around coffee production and the cup of coffee we consumers choose to drink.
More info at Coffee to Go
$1445 plus airfare (after November 15, 2006)
Treeflights.com is a new website that just launched with the great slogan “you fly - we plant”. For £10.00 (that’s $18.44 for you Yanks), Treeflights.com will plant a tree for you in one of three designated planting sites in Mid-Wales; Pantglas (Llanddewi Brefi), Ffos-y-ffin (Llanfair Clydogau) & Pant-y-pond wood (Llanybydder). They plant a variety of types of trees using standard organic principles. Often the saplings are tended with a mulch mat of recycled polythene. Plenty more info on their website at:
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