TripHip - Travel Tips and Advice for Traveling on a Budget

If you're eco-conscious and you love to travel, you may be concerned about your carbon footprint.

Aside from riding a bike, walking, or traveling by horse and carriage, the main forms of transportation (plane, train, car, ship) are going to result in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, which cook the planet. Flying is by far the worst way to put CO2 into the atmosphere.

You can set your eco-mind at ease by purchasing carbon offsets at websites like carbonfund.org. They have a calculator where you put in your travel info and they calculate your carbon emissions. You can then purchase carbon offsets which will be donated to various carbon offset projects, such as wind farms and the planting of trees.