Hello everyone,
With planes emitting carbon emissions, fuel-burning rental cars, and large quantities of plastic water bottles left behind by guests – travelling can leave a big footprint on the planet but sustainable tourism is ever-growing.
As more travellers are looking for eco-friendly holidays, more hosts are adopting eco-friendly practices, to reduce their footprint, so that guests can still enjoy trotting the world with less of an environmental impact. With a desire to help the planet, through our own individual action, we can make an impact on a global scale.
As part of Sustainability Month at Airbnb, we are launching our first ever Festival of Sustainability!
From April 22nd to April 29th, the festival will be held here in the CC. It will be entirely online, full of great topics, collaboration, and fun conversation.
We do need your help, though, so we would like to invite you to get involved.
Here are two ways:
- Community Photo Collage:
Snap a selfie of yourself somewhere green. Perhaps in the favourite part of your garden, next to the tomato plants in your greenhouse, with the tree you planted last spring, at your local botanical garden, with the houseplant you named Susan, or even from that trip you took to the Amazon where that monkey climbed your back. The possibilities for “green” photo opportunities are endless!
We will stitch all the images together to make our very own community collage that we will share on the first day of the festival as a featured post on Earth Day.
How this works:
- Take a selfie of yourself somewhere green
- Landscape or portrait
- Clear, quality photos using your smartphone (or other device if you prefer)
- Ideal image formats: JPEG or PNG
- Send your submissions to airbnb-cc@airbnb.com to be included in the grand reveal on Earth Day or post it below.
- Create a detailed topic all sustainability:
If you would like to create a topic to be included in the week, please comment below or contact me directly to discuss this further. We also have topics we can suggest.
We are asking for a maximum of 750 words (if you can!), which we will translate into all the languages we support here on the CC to share during the Festival.
We hope that this festival inspires you to make at least one change to be more sustainable. Let’s all share and learn from each other during the Festival of Sustainability!
Thanks so much,
**Deadline for submissions is Friday Apr 14, 2022
*Disclaimer
By submitting your image to the email address above, you authorize Airbnb to use your media, your first name, profile photo, and city and country of residence in marketing materials to promote Airbnb.
Throwing in some mentions of Hosts I know love sustainable hosting @Anna1403 , @Veronica-Of-Excel-Proper0 , @Clara116, @Kitty-and-Creek0, @Lawrene0, @Delphine348