{"id":2821,"date":"2010-07-27T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ietransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2010-07-27T15:09:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T15:09:47","slug":"travel-green-an-eco-friendly-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/articles\/travel-green-an-eco-friendly-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Green! An eco-friendly option."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summer travel\u00a0doesn’t always have to entail long airport security lines or\u00a0\u00a0expensive\u00a0 fill-ups at the pump.\u00a0 In fact, you can see much of the East Coast for as little as $1 !\u00a0 Here’s one way…<\/div>\n
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MegaBus<\/a> is a low-cost, express bus service connecting many East Coast cities via direct lines.\u00a0 Whether you’re headed to New York City, Boston or Washington DC, MegaBus<\/a> can get you there for as little as $1 plus a .50 cents reservation fee.\u00a0 What’s better is that\u00a0 MegaBus<\/a> offers \u00a0free wifi so you can watch a movie, catch up on email or – write a blog post while you ride like me!\u00a0 Today’s trip started bright and early at 6:35 a.m.\u00a0in Pittsburgh, PA and will find me in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, just in time for lunch for a grand total of $6.50 (different routes and purchase dates before travel affect the ticket price much like budget air travel).<\/p>\n

MegaBus<\/a> doesn’t just appeal to the avid budget traveler in me, but also to my green consciousness.\u00a0 Stage Coach Group<\/a>, the parent company of MegaBus, is a leading international transportation group, operating bus, train, tram, and express coach operations in the UK, United States and Canada.\u00a0 Their slogan, “greener, smarter travel,”<\/a> speaks to a new generation of travelers who are concerned about maintaining the quality of the very places they are going to visit for generations to come.<\/p>\n

Stage Coach Group’s website <\/a>not only addresses climate change, but includes their CSR policy, Sustainability Plan and their own carbon footprint concerns under a page entitled, “Our Responsibilities.”<\/a> A corporation that addresses its responsibilities up front and in depth, as well as helps me save money and decrease my own carbon footprint; now that’s a corporation I can get on board with, quite literally.<\/p>\n

Image Credit:\u00a0 Photo by Daquella manera<\/a> via Flickr under a Creative Commons license.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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