An essential resource for the next generation of travel: a liberating, responsible, and inspirational guide to resorts, hotels, cruises, and adventure.

Travel habits today are changing: airlines are investing in greener fuels, carbon offset programs are gaining in popularity, and people increasingly are looking for alternative travel means and destinations.

So far, books on green travel have been mere destination guides, with little space given to the broader issues in eco-travel. Written by the author of the internationally established book on green design, The Eco-Travel Guide considers every aspect of travel, from daily commuting to global vacation:
• The Why and What of eco-travel
• The Idea of Travel: how to minimize our daily impact as commuters and on long-haul trips
• Destinations: 200 vacations around the world, arranged by type: Urban, Nature, Leisure, Culture, and Adventure
• Products: from hybrid vehicles to green travel clothing and gear
• Resources: destination details and prices, tour operators, and national tourist offices
• 450 color illustrations...

Design activists, a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design. They fundamentally challenge how, where and when design can catalyze positive impacts to address sustainability. They are also challenging who can utilize the power of the design process.

This book provides a rigorous exploration of design activism that will revitalize the design debate and provide a solid platform for students, teachers, design professionals and other practitioners interested in transformative (design) activism. It provides a comprehensive study of contemporary and emergent design activism, collating, synthesizing and analyzing design activist approaches, processes, methods, tools and inspirational examples/outcomes from around the world. Inspired by past design activists and set against the context of global-local tensions, expressions of design activism are mapped. The nature of contemporary design activism is explored, from individual/collective action to the infrastructure that supports it generating powerful participatory design approaches, a diverse toolbox and inspirational outcomes. This is design as a political and social act, design to enable adaptive societal capacity for co-futuring....