As I mentioned in my last post, the time has come to log onto Enchanting Challenge and create your personal Challenge!!!
My first Challenge:
Help promote ECOTOURISM
My first task:
Interview an ecologically-friendly hotel in my area and publish the interview on Ecotrotters.com
What will the task involve?
The Interview will involve meeting with the Casa Calma (the eco hotel in Buenos Aires) management with the Enchanting Challenge team here in Buenos Aires. We will ask the Casa Calma questions about why they chose to take an eco-friendly approach, and how it has affected their business. We will then go through our “Environmental Checklist,” a document prepared by Caitlin, our Enchanting Challenge eco-guru. The checklist is simply a list of questions that checks how environmentally-friendly a hotel is in a variety of areas. The checklist covers the following areas:
- The Site (i.e., the surrounding area)
- The Water
- The Energy
- Materials
- Operation
- Lighting
- Education
- Food/Restaurant
Each of those areas has a few pointers about what can be done in each area to maximize the hotel’s positive environmental impact. You will be able to see the checklist in its entirety after the interview at Ecotrotters.com!
the reservation desk at Casa Calma
How can this task help my Challenge?
–By facilitating eco-travel to Buenos Aires–
Ecotrotters is a popular website with green-thumbed travelers. And if any Ecotrotters visit the site before coming to Buenos Aires, perhaps this interview could help promote a green vacation in the Argentine capital!!
–By varifying ¨green¨ claims–
A lot of places label themselves as green. We at Enchanting Challenge are so so happy for this environmental explosion, but we want to make sure that places that label themselves green really are green. In many ways, this checklist is an attempt to varify environmental claims.
–By spreading the idea of ecotourism–
This task is an attempt to allow other Challengers to promote ecotrousim. After this interview, the Challenge team in Buenos Aires will upload the interview AND a downloadable version of the checklist to Ecotrotters.com. That way, anyone else who is interested in interviewing a hotel in their region can simply log onto Ecotrotters.com, download the pdf, go through the checklist with a hotel near them, and upload the results back onto the site! Together, we can facilitate eco-travel to all our own regions…And then to regions that we travel to!! Together, we can collect ecotourism information on handfuls and handfuls of region. Together, we can span the globe. Remember, micro-action makes macro-change!!!
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