Issue 23: Mindful Travel
Editorial: Mindful Travel The Earth is bountiful and incredibly beautiful – beckoning to us to climb those mountains, watch wildlife at dawn, relax on that beach […]
Month: September 2015
Pilgrim or Tourist
Every act of travel is a journey into an intimate landscape, but that response of intimacy is earthed in the pilgrim, not in the tourist, […]
Why is Flying Out of the Sustainability Discussion?
Air travel entails 600 percent higher CO2 emissions and double the primary energy use of travelling by train or car. Yet the heavy subsidies for […]
Armchair TRAVEL
Do we really need sacred places? In this age when we are being called to revere all the Earth, before it’s too late, should we […]
Why is Food allowed to Travel across Continents? Why not popularise local products and local markets?
Devinder Sharma writes on the dangers of food shipped across continents – grown in one, processed and repacked elsewhere and shipped back to the country from […]
WHEN ON A RESPONSIBLE HOLIDAY, do as the locals do
When visiting a country you are exactly that: a visitor, not a local – correct? But putting yourself in the mindset of a local person […]