Summer vacation time and travel.
What can we do to reduce our environmental impact during this period?
Some tips from the site of WWF Italy :
1. > Reduce to the minimum necessary air travel. By now you know that the air traffic has a direct impact on climate change. Currency also close to home or holiday resorts that can be achieved by other means of transport.
2. > tries to move with public transport, including taxis and trains better than ever, whenever you can.
3. > car off the engine when you are parked or stuck in traffic, save fuel, money and CO2 .
4. > Rent a bike, ecological and economic, and an opportunity to immerse yourself in the landscape, with its colors, smells and sounds ...
5. > Take a walk! Swan walk in the cities or in nature, it slows down the pace ...
6. > Forget those sports that damage the environment, involving the use of engines and fuel consumption and water quantity.
7. > Choose accommodation take measures for the treatment of waste, recycle materials and make the separate collection systems that have high energy efficiency and, where possible, using sustainable energy sources and sources and who are committed to the conservation nature and biodiversity.
8. > consider the environment remains on the trails and paths, especially within protected areas. Do not take away any of the natural elements such as souvenirs, no plants, no rocks or shells, let alone animals. Never leave rubbish of any kind.
9. > consumes only the necessary water, choose a quick shower instead of a bath. Choose as many times as you can for the water and reusable if it can be in the place of your holiday you choose to drink tap water instead of buying od'acquedotto bottled water. Choose glass bottles and returnable bottles instead of plastic whenever you can. Watch it " many miles in one gulp "
10. > Limit to require the use of electricity including for air conditioning and hot water production. Turn off the lights and make sure you close the taps when you leave from your hotel room.
11. > Minimize the use of detergents and personal care for your laundry, gives up daily change of towels and sheets.
12. > Pay special attention to the waste arising from personal hygiene, do not throw anything down the toilet ... not then they find themselves on the beach!
13. > necessary to reduce your use of plastic bags and packaging for food (and about food, see what it says on the picnic Coldiretti sustainable )
14. > Some souvenir cost in ecological terms, far more than you have paid them: think twice before buying any natural object, made with shares of animals or plants. Among the other endangered species as well as hitting their possession may be illegal.
15. > To address your holidays in a positive way, without sacrificing your health, your taste for travel and learn about the countries and peoples, their culture and nature that surrounds them. To understand more about what our holidays are: www.viaggiambiente.com
Pearl and I are departing. After 3 years we are returning to Italy for a few weeks unfortunately omitting the first of these 15 tips.
The ecological damage that a plane makes with respect to the global warming of the earth is one of the most consistent. Just to make the idea of \u200b\u200bdoing a calculation on the site Climate Friendly consume 6.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide to and from Mexico. Leave with the feeling of guilt.
