Staying green while travelling
I’m on the road for business for the third time in just a little over a month. The frequent hotel visits are showing me a glaring environmental impact of just staying for the night or several nights. I’ve noticed a lot of people seem to have their room cleaned on a daily basis by housekeeping. To me that’s just wasteful and unnecessary. You don’t clean your bed sheets and bath towels on a daily basis do you? Think about the daily environmental impacts of washing all those items, like the amount of water being wasted and the detergent flushing into our sewers.
A lot of hotels seem to be stocking rooms with plastic and Styrofoam cups for drinking water and coffee in the mornings. This is another silly practice with a huge environmental impact. I prefer it when hotels provide you with actual ceramic coffee cups or glasses. Better yet, I travel with my own travel cup so I’m not using either. It’s a simple solution that can go a long way.
Do you have any suggestions or tips for traveling a little greener? Let us know about them by leaving a comment!
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May 9th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Hey! You make some great points about wasteful consumption when traveling. I always travel with my own cup to avoid using the wasteful ones they offer in the room!
I was browsing through a bunch of green websites and blogs and I came across yours and found it very interesting. There are a bunch of others I like too, like the daily green, ecorazzi and earthlab.com. I especially like EarthLab.com’s carbon calculator (http://www.earthlab.com/signupprofile/). I find it really easy to use (it doesn’t make me feel guilty after I take it).
Are there any others you would recommend? Can you drop me a link to your favorites (let me know if they are the same as mine).