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Responsible Family Travel

Responsible Family Travel

While vacations often come with a hefty carbon cost, it's possible to bring your eco-conscious values with you on your next holiday. On this episode of the Sustainable Minimalists podcast: 5 sustainable travel tips for families.

 

If you are fortunate to embark on vacation with your family this summer, your children will undoubtedly benefit from the experience. There’s the need to practice flexibility and problem-solving in real-time; there’s also the fact that seeing more of the planet will encourage your children to care for its future.

Yet there’s an elephant in the room, and it’s this: vacations often come with a hefty carbon cost.

On today’s show – and just in time for summer! – we discuss tangible ways to make your summer holiday more sustainable. Today I speak with travel blogger Samantha Runkel. Samantha has been to a whopping 80 countries and counting and so she’s on the show to offer the knowledge she’s gained from boots-on-the-ground experience as to how we can all be responsible travelers this vacation season and beyond (while also infusing a heavy dose of memory-making!).

 

Here’s a preview:

[4:00] Put your money where your (suitcase) is: Reframing the assumption that long-distance is always eco-unfriendly

[8:00] Carbon offsets: Yay or nay?

[10:15] Where to find green booking options for your next getaway

[11:45] What active regeneration looks like for families with children

[14:30] How and why you should intentionally spread your dollars around on your next holiday

[17:45] Family road trips that aren’t completely wasteful

 

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