Use a Green Passport as a travel guide

The UN Environment Programme has developed Green Passports - travel guides focused on social, economic and environmental sustainability - for Brazil and Ecuador. You'll need to speak Portuguese/Spanish to benefit from these, but there's also a general guide for everyone who's not traveling to these countries and/or doesn't speak these languages. This is full of mostly common-sense tips to ensure that your impact on the areas you visit is as beneficial as possible. We've all seen the clueless entitled tourists staggering around obliviously and destructively, plonking all their money into foreign-owned businesses that do little to benefit the local economy, right? And we've all thought "Gee, I don't want to be that guy" or "Gosh darn it, I should stop being that guy," no? Well, even if you answered no to both questions, http://www.unep.org/greenpassport/ is worth checking out.


Effort involved: the reading is easy, the putting into practice may be slightly tougher.