Photo by Pjotr Mahhonen Any mention of "Costa" among people who cruise also includes "Concordia" in the same sentence. Until now. Costa, Europe's largest cruise line, won a Go Green Award this week for its ongoing record of environmental excellence. The award comes from Weekend Weekly, a popular travel magazine in Hong Kong, and is… Continue reading Welcome News from Costa Cruises
Tag: Environmental responsibility
Cruise Ships: Venice Vixens or Victims?
Good luck with this one… Environmentalists are urging Italian super star actress Sophia Loren to abandon ship, and disassociate herself with the MSC Divina, renounce her role as the ship's Godmother, in the name of conserving Venice's fragile ecosystem. And good luck with this one, too… Conservationists under the No Big Ships Venice Committee… Continue reading Cruise Ships: Venice Vixens or Victims?
NCL Ship Crew the Pride of America
Anybody who has been on a cruise ship and who has taken the time to find out already knows that cruise lines strive to be environmentally responsible, in as many ways as possible. Times have changed. Raw waste is no longer dumped into the ocean. Garbage from ships is no longer dumped into bins… Continue reading NCL Ship Crew the Pride of America
Celebrity pillows going 'green'
Of all the items we think about being in a landfill…pillows? That means it’s one more item for cruise lines to consider in their ongoing attempts to being environmentally responsible. So, about the pillows. A cruise line with 25,000 beds uses 50,000…and that’s when the customers don’t ask (blush) for an extra pillow. Obviously, pillows… Continue reading Celebrity pillows going 'green'
Inaccurate Criticism of Cruise Ships
This is an excerpt of a reader’s comment about cruising, a comment we stumbled across on the Internet: “Cruisers are not aware of the acute environmental damage that they are doing to water and air sheds. Cruise ships are small mobile cities that dump their sewage into oceans and spew toxic emissions into the air.”… Continue reading Inaccurate Criticism of Cruise Ships