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Ecotravel: Greening Your Getaway
July 22, 2008 at 4:49PM by | Comments

Great Mercury IslandAll the talk of "staycations," reducing one's carbon footprint, and the wastefulness of private jet travel are enough induce a guilt attack when one thinks of jetting off to New Zealand to explore Great Mercury Island (pictured, left) or driving back and forth to a summer house every weekend. But our friends over at the The Daily Green have a different take on the impact of travel on the earth's resources:

"...how do you measure the value of expanding your horizons, gaining knowledge and insight about other places, ecosystems and cultures? The powerful desire to protect tends to follow exploration. Those who have visited an ecotourist hot spot tend to be much more likely to do something to protect it...
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