{"id":2752,"date":"2011-12-14T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auip.wordpress.com\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2011-12-14T10:21:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T22:21:02","slug":"green-living-should-i-travel-or-be-sustainable-how-about-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/green-living-should-i-travel-or-be-sustainable-how-about-both\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Living: Should I travel or be sustainable? How about both!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><em>Hannah Strange, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridadownunder.org\/\">Florida Down Under<\/a> marketing intern, shares her thoughts on sustainable travel:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As you may have already guessed, I am a huge fan of traveling. I will go anywhere for any length of time and get absurdly excited about it. But I also consider myself to be a rather sustainable person.<a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/qantas-airplane1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1775\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/qantas-airplane1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Especially after my AUIP programs in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auip.com\/australia\">North Queensland<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auip.com\/fiji\">Fiji<\/a>, I try to think about the impacts of my actions. I turn off my air conditioning when I can (in Florida that\u2019s a big deal), recycle, take the bus and try not to buy food that has traveled a million miles to reach me. So when it comes to traveling, I have a bit of a conundrum; every time I get on that trans-Atlantic 747, I feel a spasm of guilt about my actions.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, thanks to the wonders of science, maybe one day I won\u2019t have to feel so guilty. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qantas.com\/\">Qantas<\/a> just announced that next year they will run their first commercial flight powered solely by biofuel, or more specifically, cooking oil! Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/travel\/news\/qantas-ceo-alan-joyce-announces-airlines-first-commercial-flight-powered-by-equivalent-of-cooking-oil-during-australian-airports-association-convention\/story-e6frfq80-1226194587465\">this article<\/a> for all the details.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don\u2019t know much about science and the intricate ways that climate change works, but I do know that it sounds pretty freaking cool to run planes off biofuel. If airlines, governments and scientists keep working together on projects like this then there is no excuse for us not to make environmental progress!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/picture-of-biofuel.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1773\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/auip.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/picture-of-biofuel.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Biofuel picture from La Jolla\" width=\"244\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a>So while you may not be stepping on a biofuel powered flight this holiday, do remember that most flight carriers do now offer you the opportunity to offset the carbon released from your flight, or you can go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbonfund.org\/\">Carbon Fund website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also be sure to remember when you\u2019re traveling to stay, eat and buy local and wrap those presents in recycled wrapping paper! Read my fellow intern Amanda\u2019s other holiday green tips <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auip.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/05\/green-living-amandas-tips-for-how-to-have-a-greener-christmas\/\">here<\/a>. Happy holiday traveling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Strange, the Florida Down Under marketing intern, shares her thoughts on sustainable travel: As you may have already guessed, I am a huge fan of traveling. I will go anywhere for any length of time and get absurdly excited about it. But I also consider myself to be a rather sustainable person. Especially after my AUIP programs in North&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-12-interns","category-green-living"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auip.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}