Greener Options When Traveling!
Little Zoe and Ben are jumping up and down; they are just about to have a melt down guessing where we are going this year. The funny thing is my husband and I never had a thought other than a major resort in the previous years. Honestly, thinking hmm what my greener options for travel are never entered my mind. Something changed when a notice from a law firm got dropped off on our doorstep. It stated “x corporation has been legally forced to clean-up the chemicals which they dumped into our communities water source. It continued with high levels of chemical “x” may pose serious health risks if ingested.” Huh? Of course we are ingesting our water. Here is the punch line; they had till 2014 to clean this mess up. So I looked at my husband, jaw dropped, and said so we have been drinking tainted water for the last 6 years and this company is legally allowed to “remedy the situation” over a 5 year period. So legally they are allowed to poison my family for 11 years and the only thing they were legally required to do is to send me this paper telling me they are poisoning my community. It was horrifying and a travesty of justice. Were we offered a settlement? Were we offered free bottled water until they fix the problem? Were we offered an apology? – no! So this year, was the year we began to not only buy organic foods but to live a greener life. To take our kids on a green vacation, and let them understand that we can change the earth one step at a time- one vacation at a time. To teach them that although the water may be out of our control, we daily can become contributors to a greener planet. So how was I going to do this, how would I be that role model? What did that mean, where would we have to travel to find that vacation? How much would it cost? Can we do a staycation, with greener options? Well now, we started to ask the question; what are my greener options when traveling? So here is my story and what I will be sharing weekly is my desire for families to plan greener vacations.
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