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G.A.P Adventures Eco-Trip Catalog

The G.A.P. Adventures travel agency is a green vacation operator that specializes in sustainable and environmentally responsible travel. The heart of their travel packages lies within their work at the local level. With every green vacation package that they operate and offer, they work with the local communities of each destination to develop sustainable and eco-tourism in an effort to become as impact neutral as possible.

Currently, the areas of the planet that they offer trip packages in are as follows: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and Antarctica. The most popular trip packages contain both an element of adventure in exploration and a volunteer service slant to help keep travel sustainable.

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Global Volunteers

Taking a green vacation is one way to help educate yourself and promote the protection of the environment. One travel group, called Global Volunteers is dedicated to providing you and your family with an educational vacation while helping to support local communities and the world’s overall environmental consciousness. Their goal is to help create sustainable communities throughout the world with the cooperation of people like you who are willing to take a vacation for a cause.

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Being able to take a green vacation is the optimum addition to creating an environmentally friendly lifestyle. The greenest choice you can make of using vacation time is to explore the local area and keep your carbon footprint low on your time off. Because not all vacations you may take are going to be the ultimate in a green vacation, there are still things that you can do to make the experience it more green.

Click here to read full article by Laura Jean Karr at BrightHub.

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