The hot summer is over, the days are getting shorter, and the autumn sun is shining on ripe olives. It’s olive harvest season in Italy, Greece and Spain, and one of the best times to travel for a sustainable vacation. The olive harvest is a…

Do you bring your own shampoo bar when you travel? Zero-waste icon Bea Johnson stopped doing that a long time ago. In an interview with the Green Travel Blog, she explains that some things have already changed for the better in the quest to reduce…

Greywater in the toilet, zero-kilometer vegetables on your plate, and a “Tiny Forest” behind the hotel. Why does heat recovery—though it sounds wonderfully unsexy—often matter more to a hotel than a bamboo straw? We’ll break down the vocabulary of sustainable travel for you. 

In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda, a global roadmap for achieving sustainable development by 2030. At first glance, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set out by the United Nations sound pretty ambitious and abstract. But what do they have to do with…

If you travel often, then you’re probably familiar with the pleasant luxuries of large, professionally managed hotel complexes: spacious lobbies, room service, and impersonal efficiency. But sometimes, you may long for a place where they know you by name. A place where you’re greeted every…