2024 Wrapped Up: Unpacking a Year of Sustainable Travel Progress
December 20, 2024
The Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia, home to one of Southeast Asia’s remaining primary rainforests, face critical threats from deforestation and wildlife loss. Once largely isolated, the region now struggles with in-migration, agricultural expansion, high poverty rates, and poor access to higher education, all of which exacerbate environmental degradation. The project...
The Garo Hills region of India, with its dense forests, abundant wildlife, and cultural heritage, offers tourism potential for the Indigenous communities that reside there. However, the widespread use of inefficient wood-fired cookstoves releases hazardous emissions, causing serious health risks, driving forest loss, deepening gender disparities, and perpetuating high poverty...
Rootella is a seed treatment and soil additive full of mycorrhizal fungi that create a symbiotic relationship with crops and increase plants’ natural ability to sequester carbon in the soil. When applied at planting, the fungus effectively extends the plant root in an underground web, significantly improving nutrient uptake and...
This project conserves a large section of tropical forest that holds significant cultural, spiritual, and economic value to the Indigenous Bunong people. The Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary protects this area from unsustainable farming and logging and addresses social issues that drive communities to extractive practices. Along with safeguarding tree species...
Small-scale bamboo farming is a central part of Thailand’s cultural fabric. The country’s long history of bamboo cultivation supports industries such as construction, tourism, agriculture, and fisheries that utilize bamboo materials. When bamboo poles are processed, unusable parts are burned, releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. This project repurposes bamboo waste...
The Dominican Republic’s booming tourism industry consumes a hefty amount of energy, with fossil fuels accounting for most of the supply. Set in a less developed part of the country, the Larimar Wind Farm utilizes the breeze that blows in from the sea to generate clean, grid electricity. By creating...