Impact the Planet the Right Way: What’s Important This Earth Day
Our world is beautiful. From the ripples of wildflowers bursting through fields that roll by the window on a road trip, to the drops of rain that race down our window pane from the comfort of our bed, or the skies —golden, pink, purple, cloudy, clear and awe-inspiring. As travellers we appreciate the world, in fact, we worship it. It’s the very reason we travel in the first place. We take pictures that we share even though we know “you had to be there to really appreciate it”. We save up our holiday days to explore it; snowy slopes in Switzerland in February, the Provence lavender fields in July. We schedule our lives around it. But what do we do for it? How do we give back? Our planet is incredibly strong and resilient, but it’s mirroring our impact on it back to us. Everyone hears about it — the Bushfires, the earthquakes, the typhoons or tsunamis. So what can we really do to help? The key to inciting change starts at a grassroots level: …