Are you looking for an ecological holiday? GreenPeace publishes a free responsible travel guide

The planet has not finished burning, but we cannot stop living. While you may want to stop breathing for fear of releasing CO2, feeling guilty can be counterproductive. In addition to encouraging collective action by the most polluting institutions and companies, you may want to act on an individual level as well. Including from the side of its small and large pleasures such as holidays.

This, Greenpeace France has understood well ever since the association has just published a responsible travel guide.

Greenpeace publishes a practical and guilt-free ecological travel guide

The international non-governmental organization for the protection of the environment, founded in 1971 and present in more than 55 countries around the world, sends it free of charge by e-mail upon simple request via its website. The guide opens like this:

“To limit global warming to 1.5 ° C, we should emit less than three tons of CO2 per year and per person by 2030 according to UNEP.
But the plane is so polluting that we can overcome this limit with just one trip …

In this guide, discover the destinations within walking distance of home, for an extended weekend, or on the other side of Europe, for a long and well-deserved vacation … Relax on the beach or take a trip to a European capital while protecting the climate , it’s possible. But it is not always easy to know where to go… and above all how. “

The guide thus provides various tips in all its pages optimized to be read from the small screen of a smartphone.which is very convenient. There is also information and key figures to better visualize and understand how much more pollutes the plane than the car, bus or train.

14 ideas for eco-friendly destinations from a weekend to a week

Concretely, there are 14 destination ideas from a few days to 1 week for green holidays from mainland France, with practical and green tips on how to get there, as well as inspiration for activities:

1. Brugge
2. The Black Forest
3. amsterdam
4. Barcelona
5. Vienna
6. The Channel Islands
7. The volcanoes of Auvergne
8. The Ossau valley
9. The Valley of Wonders
10. The Crozon peninsula
11. colony
12. San Sebastián and Bilbao
13. The Vosges
14. London

16 destination ideas for a two-week green holiday

Then 16 ideas for destination destinations for a two-week vacation, always with practical and green tips on how to get there, as well as suggestions for activities:

1. Sardinia
2. Lombardy
3. Tyrol
4. The highlands
5. The Balearics
6. Cornwall
7. Slovenia
8. The Stevenson Trail
9. Andalusian
10. Ireland … to Connemara
11. The Wadden Islands
12. The Swiss Alps
13. Asturias
14. The Ligurian coast and the island of Elba
15. Bavaria
16. The Danish islands

11 ideas for eco-vacation destinations of 3 weeks or more

And finally 11 ideas of holiday destinations of 3 weeks or more close the guide published by Greenpeace France:

1. Puglia and Basilicata
2. The “Pearl of the Balkans”
3. Corfu and the Ionian Islands
4. Istanbul
5. Escape to the Baltic Sea
6. Discovering the fjords
7. From Biarritz to Lisbon
8. Corsica on a sailing boat
9. From Rome to Tunis
10. Transylvania
11. From the Rif to the Sahara

In short, it is an inspiring, informative, guilt-free, realistic and above all practical guide. What people are asking for, concretely. So, if you are worried, happy holidays!

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