Tourists are increasingly seeking vacations that support local cultures and the environment. Now this new style of ecotourism is struggling to define itself.I have to wonder what that might look like here in Minnesota. Catch and release? Biking from state park to state park? Attending a Friday night fish fry hosted by locavores?
How about in other areas of the country? Does ecotourism have to mean a trip to Costa Rica? How can - or do - you travel green?
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Julia Schrenkler
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I don't have much to add here, Julia. Just started learning seriously about eco-tourism last week.
Susan - what do you think about paying to make your flight green? Would that be the same thing as corporations buying pollution credits? Does it make sense?
www.greenroutes.org
And progressives say they are not trying lower the standard of living of Americans?
So you can buy "carbon credits" the same way the rich could buy "indulgences" from the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages?
Winston, you're sounding crabby. Care to elaborate?
Just think, personal and economic freedoms within a capitalistic society has given us such vast prosperity that people have time to think of this stuff.
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Vacation? Sure! But I gotta keep working so I can be taxed so you libs can forcefully take my money with the power of the IRS and give it to someone else!