Waar kun je in Middelburg vegetarisch uit eten? En waar bevinden zich milieuvriendelijke hotels in Den Haag? Kan ik fair trade shoppen in Tilburg? Voor al die vragen biedt de Good & Green Guide Holland uitkomst. Daarnaast geeft de gids ook tips over plekken waar je zelf een steentje kunt bijdragen aan een groenere en socialere wereld bijvoorbeeld door vrijwilligerswerk te doen.
Klimaatneutraal
Deze reisgids is samengesteld door een team van lokale specialisten, studenten en vrijwilligers met veel kennis en ervaring op het gebied van duurzaamheid. Dankzij het Fair Climate Fund is de gids klimaatneutraal. Alle uitstoot die de gids veroorzaakt, wordt gecompenseerd met investeringen in Basa Magogo, een project dat milieuvriendelijk koken in Zuid-Afrikaanse townships bevordert.
De Good & Green Guide Holland biedt ook veel inspirerende inleidingen van duurzame prominenten waaronder Prins Carlos, Jan Terlouw, Roger van Boxtel, Jolande Sap, Willemijn Verloop en Maurits Groen.
De gids kost €19,90 en is te bestellen op de site of te koop in boekwinkels in Amsterdam, Rotterdam en Den Haag. In juni volgend jaar kun je daar ook terecht voor een duurzame stedengids van Londen. Voor onder andere Barcelona, Parijs, Boedapest, Kopenhagen staan ook duurzame gidsen op de rol.
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What we do
We create and publish sustainable travel guides. Good & Green Guides are the first travel guides in Europe that combine pleasure with care for people and the environment.
Our vision
There is growing awareness that we need to change our way of consuming. More and more businesses are offering sustainable products and services. In fact, nowadays we only have two types of organisations: those that already deliver sustainable products and services, and those who want to deliver sustainable products and services. Our population on earth is approaching 9 billion in 2050, 2 billion of whom fall into the middle income bracket. Selling and purchasing must change. Traditional organisations will soon not exist anymore. They will become out-of-business. The consumer is dominating the market and determines who sells and what is bought. Price was often decisive, but today’s consumer is better informed and decides not only on price but also on (emotional) quality aspects such as labour conditions and environmental impact.
Cities are key
Cities are playing a crucial role. Only 2% of the available space on earth is used by cities, but 50% of the world population lives in them. It is expected that this will grow to 80% in 2050. Moreover, 80% of all CO2 emissions are generated in cities. Cities are therefore the key if we want to have a more sustainable society.
Enjoy the city with care
Good & Green Guides shows you how easy it is to find all the sustainable places to enjoy the city with care and respect for people and the environment. Good & Green Guides are made with volunteers without sponsoring, subsidizing and advertisements. The guides are comprehensive, transparant and practical.
Comprehensive
Every guide offers more than 500 carefully selected Good & Green places for consumers divided up into 23 categories and 5 main chapters:
Eat & Meet: bars, cafes, tearooms, foodshops, foodmarkets, restaurants, herbs & foodsupplements
Dreaming: hotels, bed & breakfasts, hostels and campsites
Experiencing: kids, mobility, mind & body, parks & gardens, down & out
Shopping: cosmetics, fair trade, fashion, office & home, second-hand, vintage, repair, webshops, banks
Getting involved: aid & activists, collection & recycling, ECO interest points, freedom interest points, volunteering, offsetting CO2
Extensive and verified contact information, up-to-date activities, opening times, public transport information and personal reviews.
Transparant
All listed places are measured with the Good & Green Star System based on three main aspects of sustainability:
Good: Help people and children to develop and/or to support with food, clean water and housing.
Green: Take care of our environment by respecting animals and plants, saving energy and use renewable energy (wind & sun).
Great: Be transparent and show good and green (audited) actions and results on the website.
The Good & Green Star System uses criteria like known and proven national and international standards, qualifications and certifications to measure the level of sustainability of an organization. An organization is rewarded with one or more stars when it complies to a standard or is certificated. Some specific milestones, like having a tangible plan to become CO2 neutral or a partnership with an aidorganisation, will also be rewarded with stars. Each organization can be rewarded with a maximum of 10 stars:
3 good stars (for taking care of the development of people),
3 green stars (for taking care of the environment) and
4 great stars (for being transparent about good and green actions and results).
Practical
Four different indexes (by street, zipcode, rating stars and subject), top 10s, routes, fold-out and detailed city maps, public transportlines, Good & Green calander with historical milestones, holidays and anniversaries of Good & Green people.
