Regenerative Travel 101
Essential resources for slow and regenerative travel 🐌
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal.”
— Paulo Coelho
I'm on an epic adventure from south to north Norway, exploring what it means to live, travel and work in regenerative and life-affirming ways.
Here are some of my favourite regenerative (?) travelling resources I stumbled upon during my research 👇
Volunteering 🌱
🏡 WWOOF, Workaway and HelpX to find places to volunteer in exchange for accommodation and food.
🌱 Earthwatch Institute, GoEco and GVI to find meaningful conservation and volunteering opportunities.
Accommodation 🏘️
🏕️ Welcome To My Garden to find slow-travel garden camping spots.
😻 TrustedHousesitters to discover free & unique homestays in exchange for caring for adorable pets.
🏡 Fairbnb.coop and Ecobnb are sustainable alternatives to Airbnb.
🛋️ Couchsurfing to meet and stay with locals all over the world.
🚿 Warmshowers.org is a global community of touring cyclists where you can find hosts to stay with.
Travel 🚲
🚲 Systemic Cycles is a bioregional cycling journey that helps us shift from sightseeing to 'insight-seeing' towards resilient regenerative futures.
👍 Hitchwiki is the Hitchhiker's Guide to Hitchhiking.
⛵ Find a Crew is the world's largest online boat & crew network.
🚌 BlaBlaCar is the world's largest carpooling network.
🚂 InterRail to travel through Europe by train Europe with 1 flexible pass.
Communities 🤗
🌐 Global Ecovillage Network, Foundation for Intentional Community, Transition Network, Local Futures, NuMundo and ecobasa.org to find nearby ecovillages and intentional communities.
🧘 Plumline’s Global Sangha Directory a directory of Sanghas —communities of Buddhist practitioners in the plum village tradition.
🗺️ Native Land Digital is an interactive map showing Indigenous territories, languages, and lands.
Experts 🦸♀️
♾️ Regenerative Travel, The Long Run and Tourism Cares are organizations dedicated to advancing a regenerative paradigm within the tourism industry.
🦸♀️ Michelle Holliday, Anna Pollock, Loretta Bellato, Nicole Melancon, Martha "Pati" Ruiz Corzo, Amanda Ho, Bárbara Büchel, David Leventhal, Tobias Luthe and Daniel Christian Wahl are some regenerative tourism experts to follow.
Regenerative Travel Principles 🕸️
“So behave that the odour of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.”
—Henry David Thoreau
Here are some of my personal principles for regenerative travel:
Travel Slowly To Travel Deeply 🐌
Travel In By Travelling Out 🧘
Resonance Is Your Compass 🧭
Meet and Eat Local 🥕
Sense the Place, its Patterns, and Potential 🐛
Ask: “What Do You Need?” 👂
Bring Your Unique Gifts 🎁
How do you (try to) travel in regenerative and life-affirming ways? And what are some of your favourite resources?
Let me know in the comments 👇
Greetings from Bogsdalen Gård 👋
“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
—John Irving
Sending much love from the more-than-human life at Bogsdalen Gård, a regenerative farm in Jæren, the South-West of Norway 🐑
Learn more about my journey in “Lessons From a Bioregional Nomad — Exploring Regenerative Ways of Living, Working and Travelling.”
Amazing resource! Thanka for putting this together. Looking forward to digging into the links.
Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together! Such a cool, unique idea!! Very inspiring <3 I will be sharing these resources with some of my wanderlust friends!! Im sure it will come in handy :)