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Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Roadside America - Guide to Uniquely Odd Tourist Attractions
Warmshowers.org | Hospitality for touring cyclists
Nomads Connected
Global Greeter Network: Home
Greeters are volunteers that love their city so much they volunteer to show their city to visitors. Not as a guide, but more like a newly met friend! Greeters will show special places that mean something in their lives. They would also show things visitors specifically ask for such as parks, shopping, architecture or a less wellknown neighborhood. Greeters are not professional guides, that is why Greeters (for example) do not enter a museum with their guest(s), that is up to the professionals.BookCrossing in Nederland
idealist.org - Welcome to Idealist.org - Imagine. Connect. Act.
Girls Rock Camp is one of the awesome, replicable ideas we’ve profiled. I can’t wait until Hattie performs with them someday. (Photo via Flickr user emilyaugust) In the beginning of November I gave birth to my daughter Hattie. For the past three months, I’ve been knee deep in miniature clothing, parenting blogs, and really, really ...World Footprints
Center for Responsible Travel : Formerly CESD
Responsible Tourism Tanzania is a new initiative that started at the International Travelers Philanthropy Conference that was held in Arusha in 2008. The idea for this organization is to set the standards and accredit tourism enterprises for an ecotourism or responsible approach. Since the conference, the idea of Responsible Tourism Tanzania has steadily grown and recently it launched a new website. September 23rd: CREST travelled to Nicaragua with WSPA for a forum on Sustainable Tourism and Animal Welfare at the Universidad de Ciencias Comerciales TravelTalk Radio interviewed Martha Honey about CREST's Traveler's Philanthropy and the 3rd International Conference on Traveler's Philanthropy!Help Exchange: free volunteer work exchange abroad Australia New Zealand Canada Europe
Rising Voices, an outreach initiative of Global Voices , aims to help bring new voices from new communities and speaking new languages to the global conversation by providing resources and funding to local groups reaching out to underrepresented communities. Introduction Founded in 2004 by a group of pioneering international bloggers, Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore.

