Air travel accounts for about 4 percent of human-induced global warming, and the United Nations warns that airplane emissions are set to triple by 2050. Planes are becoming more efficient, but our appetite for air travel is outpacing the industry’s environmental gains. One Boeing 747 carrying 416 passengers from Heathrow... Read more
Xi Jinping, the president of China, after viewing this tremendous and shocking video from a Youtuber showing the reality of their country has decided to stop all plastic imports from developed countries. Before 2018 most countries exported their waste, mainly plastics to China, where recycle was supposed to be cheaper. But as... Read more
We all know by now the many ways how to avoid and reduce plastic, but what about unnecessary consumption of plastic? I can share my satisfaction of doing toys with my kids, recycling old materials and creating new objects. Also by doing our own Christmas presents: boxes, frames, coasters...
In 2018, awareness campaign Zero Waste Week reported that the cosmetics industry produces 120 billion units of packaging each year. Those boxes are the result of an annually loss of 18 million acres of forest. What can we do? Reducing packaging helps the planet: Why not ask for a simple wrap instead... Read more
The journey of ALBATROSS began in 2008 with the activist/photographer Chris Jordan. Studying the newly-emerging issue of ocean plastic pollution, learning a stunning environmental tragedy taking place on a tiny atoll in the center of the vast North Pacific Ocean. The expedition photographed and filmed thousands of young albatrosses that... Read more
Wildfires, storms, and viruses now are exacerbated by climate change. Perhaps we should call them what they are: disasters of our own making. At a news conference in mid-August of last year, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, announced that there were 367 “known” wildfires burning in the state. “I say ‘known’ fires,” Newsom said,... Read more
What will travel look like in our post-pandemic world? The smartest thing I’ve heard so far comes from Elizabeth Becker, author of Overbooked and our own early report on how hard the pandemic will hit the travel industry. “The travel complex will have to grab a seat at the table where government policies are made,” she... Read more
This picture was taken somewhere on the Indian highway where two elephants reach out to each other in a brief moment of love and bonding before being separated from each other for a lifetime of serving man. It’s well known that elephants value their family structure, perhaps more so than... Read more
I never liked visiting animals in the Zoo. Not even when I was a child. I love now when my children enjoy the animal world in the wild. I was touched not only by the beauty of the landscapes but the magical sensation of touching wild horses and feel contented... Read more
Living in Asia and traveling through Indonesia for the past few years has struck me back, I couldn’t believe the huge amount of plastics everywhere in all the beaches. I was shocked! I decided with my family to do something. We started to organice beach cleaning with the schoolars and contacted... Read more
When I visited Thailand with my children I decided to experience the joy of being with an elephant but from another perspective, without the need of riding it.. We visited instead a Sanctuary where they took care of elephants that had suffered enormously in the entertainment business. Our experience was simply wonderful! We... Read more
During our travels in Utah and Arizona we had the pleasure to meet the German artist “ Ulrike Arnold”. When we visited her in one of the Glen Canyon Caves, where she could even spend a whole week painting inspired by nature… we learned the process of the pigments selection that... Read more