The White Savior Complex

A guide to carbon offsetting flights for air travellers, featuring what carbon offsets are, how they work and how to choose an offset scheme.

Despite appearances, voluntourism can do more harm than good. Discover why it can perpretrate negative stereotypes and exploit the most vulnerable.

Travel Guide to Carbon Offsetting and Flying With a Greener Conscience. Why carbon offsetting is probably your best bet at climate redemption and how you can do it. #sustainability #travel #flying

Volunteering and voluntourism have become huge parts of the travel industry. These are the things to consider before you volunteer overseas.

In January 2020 I had the opportunity to travel to Kenya, located in East Africa where I spent a month volunteering with an incredible organisation, Evie Grace Foundation . Evie Grace Foundation is an Australian based non-profit charity founded by Maddi Kent . I stumbled across this organisation i

Reject the token do-gooding that used to go hand-in-hand with voluntourism and embrace travel and voluntourism holidays that have a positive impact

The primary problem with carbon offsetting and it's biggest criticism lies in the fact that it avoids dealing with the root of the problem. Carbon Offsetting does nothing to reduce the amount of dangerous greenhouse gases being produced in the first place

It’s hard to believe that I am over two months in to my time in Budondo and my work with the BIC. Things have been moving quickly and I am still trying to keep up with all of the cultural…

Pt. 1: What is the 'White Savior Complex'? When I applied for Peace Corps two years ago, I was a bright-eyed idealist who wanted to ‘help people in need’ while gaining health-related experience to carry me through a few years before going to medical school. Preferably abroad, because I wanted to deeply understand a new culture. What I have found myself deeply caught in, now, in early 2019, is the political, cultural, and socio-economic reverberations of the ‘white savior complex’, which I…

The traveller’s guide to carbon offsetting your flights – everything you need to know about carbon offsetting, including how it works, what to think about when choosing an offset scheme and if it's worth doing | Sustainable travel | Carbon offsetting | Air travel

What do carbon offsetting carbon net zero and other sustainability terms mean?