Next Avenue: Is your travel ‘green’ enough? 5 ways to help reduce your travel carbon footprint.

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Several years ago, I booked what I thought was an “ecodestination” family trip to Costa Rica. What I had hoped would be a transformational experience among the rainforests, cloud forests, volcanoes and endangered habitats was an eye-opener and great experience.

Yet it wasn’t earth-friendly when…