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• www.GreenTravel.org

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• The Vision Mission
• To foster the global movement towards a just
  society that embraces nonviolence, free media,
  multiculturalism, biodiversity, sustainable
  development, ecological restoration, appropriate
  technology, and human rights by providing an
  educational travel service dedicated to helping
  people find opportunities to undertake socially
  conscious travel.

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• Considerations
• Language learning
• Volunteer placement
• Eco-impact reduction
• Travel insurance
• Transportation
• Informative resources
• Weather worldwide
• Housing options
• Travelers health
• Fundraising
• Documents
• Community involvement

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Development Then

• Traditionally, development was equated
• with economic production and the optimization of
  profits for the
• corporate sector.

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Development Now

• Development has now come
• to represent a process of
• world-building.

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World-Building

• "the process of integrating and transforming the
  aspirations of collectivities at all levels of
  social organization toward those that advance the
  development of people everywhere.
• (Estes 1992 33)

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Key Concepts

• Conscientization
• Profound insight into the source(s) of their
  oppression combined with a willingness to act
  collectively in bringing about solutions to those
  oppressions (Estes 1992 28).
• Institution-building
• The process of establishing new, or extending
  existing, resources to larger numbers of persons
  in need of such services (Estes 1992 33).
• Globalization
• The intensification of a worldwide social
  relations which link distant localities in such a
  way that local happenings are shaped by events
  occurring many mile away and vice versa (Morrow
  Carlos Torres 2000 27-28).
• Counterglobalization
• The influence exerted by the rise of some new
  social movements and the role of local and
  international nongovernmental organizations
  (Burbules Torres 2000 18).

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Alan Fowler (2002)

• Diaspora channels can be more reliable because
  responsibility and accountability back home
  increase vulnerability to the consequences of
  globalization. (18)
• peoples individual and collective capacity to
  cope with exploit opportunities created by change
  becomes the core feature of anti-poverty
  interventions. (6)

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Service Learning

• Links to academic content and standards.
• Involves people in helping to determine meet
  real, defined community needs.
• Is reciprocal in nature, benefiting both the
  community the service providers.
• Can relate to any subject area so long as it is
  appropriate for assessed needs.
• -- National Commission on Service Learning

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Service Learning

• Service-learning combines service objectives
  with learning objectives with the intent that the
  activity change both the recipient and the
  provider of the service. This is accomplished by
  combining service tasks with structured
  opportunities that link the task to
  self-reflection, self-discovery, and the
  acquisition and comprehension of values, skills,
  and knowledge content.
• --www.servicelearning.org
• Service-learning is a form of experiential
  education where learning occurs through a cycle
  of action and reflection as students work with
  others through a process of applying what they
  are learning to community problems and, at the
  same time, reflecting upon their experience as
  they seek to achieve real objectives for the
  community and deeper understanding and skills for
  themselves.
• --Eyler Giles, 1999
• A primary goal of service learning is to get
  students to place their volunteer work in a
  larger social context and to give them an
  opportunity to explore that connection through
  reflection activities.
• --www.idealist.org

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Transnational Advocacy

• As global civil society tries to compensate for
  the failures of the market and state under
  current forms of globalization, NGOs have been
  restructuring their own work in the context
  created by globalization by forming transnational
  networks.
• (Thompson, 2001)
• Examples of a well-known transnational advocacy
  campaign include the campaign to stop the
  promotion of Nestles infant formula to women in
  the South, and the 1997 treaty to ban land mines,
  which 122 countries signed, largely due to the
  support of 300 NGOs worldwide.
• (Keck Sikkink, 1998)

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Boomerang Pattern Strategy

• This strategy bypasses the weakened or corrupt
  state when civil society-to-state channels have
  been blocked in order to invoke change either in
  the same state or in a corporation that the state
  of origination could potentially regulate or
  pressure into reform.
• The boomerang is thrown to foreign states and
  international institutions through collaboration
  with global civil society.
• The state of origination, as a result, receives
  ever increasing external pressure from the global
  allies of civil society to implement the desired
  policy change, and, thus, the boomerang is
  returned.

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Global Public Goods

• "It is not beyond the powers of political
  volition to tip the scales towards more secure
  peace, greater economic well-being, social
  justice and environmental sustainability. But no
  country can achieve these global public goods on
  its own, and neither can the global marketplace.
  Thus our efforts must now focus on the missing
  term of the equation global public goods".
• Kofi AnnanSecretary-General of the United
  NationsNew York1 March 1999

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Global Public GoodsFramework

• Global public goods are "public goods with
  benefits that are strongly universal in terms of
  countries, peoples, and generations".
• The types of global public goods fall under the
  following categories equity and justice, peace
  and security, environment and cultural heritage,
  knowledge and information, health, and market
  efficiency.
• By definition of a pure public good, they must
  be nondepletable, nonrivalrous, and
  nonexcludable, as well as intragenerational and
  intergenerational.
• They are either overused, such as the ozone
  layer underused, such as knowledge and
  information or undersupplied, such as peace,
  health, market efficiency, and equity.
• Their overuse, underuse, and undersupply are a
  result of the free-rider problem running rampant
  under globalization, and the public bads that
  globalization has left in its wake.
• (Kaul, Grunberg Stern, 1999)

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Promotion ofGlobal Public Goods

• Global public goods are already being promoted by
  socially responsible businesses, NGOs, and
  intergovernmental organizations.
• The UNDP is the main advocate for this new
  framework, but it is a framework that has been
  readily adopted by NGOs and businesses alike that
  feel cross-sectoral collaborations and this
  adoption of a common framework, or language so to
  speak, are essential to sustainable development.

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What the Framework Offers

• 1) Simple explanations of global social problems
  brought on by the imperfect market and
  globalization
• 2) How individual states can work alone and
  together to expand their responsibility of
  providing public goods to the world
• 3) Corporations and other sectors clear economic
  incentives to implement the solutions it
  suggests
• 4) NGOs a uniform mission to successfully network
  and communicate with other sectors
• 5) A clear presentation of the current weaknesses
  in their provision and
• 6) An explanation and set of solutions that all
  sectors and cultures can agree on.

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The Fourth Position

• Aid Architecture Reflections of NGDO Futures
  and the Emergence of Counter-Terrorism by Alan
  Fowler (2002)
• The issue is how to ensure fairness, justice,
  efficiency and effectiveness in development
  relationships that are set to become even more
  complex as government, different businesses,
  various types of civil society organization and
  donors try to collaborate. Each actor has
  combinations of incentives, motivations,
  resources and forms of power that are often at
  odds with those of the others. It is therefore
  difficult to envisage how to bring them together
  to find common and equitable grounds for
  collaboration. (18-19)
• The essential idea is to draw on but move beyond
  a too-simple three-sector view of society, to a
  more complex understanding of an NGDOs
  grounding, principles of operation, roles and
  embedding in society, a fourth position. In
  other words, while bonded to civil society, they
  use their value-base as a springboard to
  interact with state, market and civil society
  itselfwhich is far from homogenous and is not
  inherently civil or conflict free. They would
  have the competence to speak different sector
  languages and to engage across diverse
  institutional boundaries and foster
  interorganizational linkages. In doing so, the
  challenge is to help others to see how NGDO
  values, expressed through human rights, are
  relevant to everyone in terms of responsible
  global change, long-term institutional viability
  and local to global stability and
  sustainability. (20-21)

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Tri-Sectoral Forums

• The UNDP calls for the increase in tri-sectoral
  forums that include civil society, corporations,
  and states.
• The UNDP encourages the continuous development of
  concepts and instruments necessary to bolster
  collective action, such as the internalization of
  externalities and to deal with potentially
  contagious phenomena at the source, before they
  spill across borders.
• (Kaul, Grunberg Stern, 1999)

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The Fourth Position at the UN

• From politics to security to public health,
  from crime to the environment, a growing agenda
  of development issues can no longer be managed
  within the boundaries of any single nation.
  Global, regional and national coalitions for
  action are emerging centred around the United
  Nations indispensable role. The UN can bring
  together governments, civil society,
  multinational corporations and multilateral
  organizations coming together around particular
  issues of concern and looking for innovative ways
  to address them.
• Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator of UNDP

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• E.N.G.A.G.E.
• The Educational Network for Global and Grassroots
  Exchange
• www.Engage-Humanity.org
• Uses the energy of former study abroad students
  to link communities globally in grassroots action
  for social justice.

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Impact Management

• Transportation Arrangements
• Learning the Language
• Community Involvement
• Cultural Understanding

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Transportation Arrangements

• Routes International - http//www.routesinternatio
  nal.com/
• Environmentally-Friendly Transportation -
  http//www.knowledgehound.com/topics/ecotrans.htm
• The Trail Database - www.traildatabase.org
• Global Gazetteer Version 2.1 - http//www.fallingr
  ain.com/world/
• Sunrise, sunset, dawn/dusk times - www.gaisma.com
  
• Fox Car Rentals - www.foxrentacar.com

• Carbon Emissions Offset Directory
• www.ecobusinesslinks.com/carbon_offset_wind_credit
  ...
• Crooked Trails
• www.crookedtrails.com/carbon.htm
• Carbon Neutral Travel
• www.carbonfund.org
• National Carbon Offset Coalition
• www.ncoc.us/
• MyClimate Carbon Offsets
• www.my-climate.com
• Carbon Offset Programs
• www.mongabay.com/10offset.htm

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Community Involvement Volunteering

• Action Without Borders - www.idealist.org
• AFS - www.afs.org
• Border Links - www.borderlinks.org
• BRIDGES - www.grassrootsbridges.org
• Cosmic Volunteers -www.cosmicvolunteers.org
• Domoz open directory project - volunteering
  opportunities - http//dmoz.org/Society/Philanthr
  opy/Volunteering/Opportunities/
• Domoz open directory project - specialty travel
  volunteering - http//dmoz.org/Recreation/Travel/
  Specialty_Travel/Volunteering/
• Institute for International Cooperation and
  Development (IICD) - www.iicd-volunteer.org
• International Foundation for Education and
  Self-Help (IFESH) - www.ifesh.org

• International Partnership for Service and
  Learning (IPS-L) - www.ipsl.org
• International Volunteer Expeditions (IVEX) -
  www.espwa.org
• Our Developing World - www.magiclink.net/odw
• SCI-IVS USA (Service Civil International-Internati
  onal Voluntary Service) - www.sci-ivs.org
• Visions in Action - www.visionsinaction.org
• Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) -
  www.vsocanada.org
• World Capitals Program of American University -
  www.worldcapitals.american.edu
• World Neighbors - www.wn.org
• World PULSE - www.worldpulse.org

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Human Rights Calendar

• February 21 - International Mother Language Day
  (UNESCO)
• April 7 - World Health Day (WHO)
• May 1 - International Workers Day
• May 3 - World Press Freedom Day (UNESCO)
• May 15 - International Day of Families
• June 5 - World Environment Day (UNEP)
• June 20 - World Refugee Day
• August 7 - Transgender International Rights and
  Education Day
• August 9 - International Day of Indigenous People
• September 16 - International Day for the
  Preservation of the Ozone Layer
• October 17 - International Day for the
  Eradication of Poverty

• November 9 - Kristallnacht, International Day
  Against Fascism Anti-Semitism
• November 11 - International Day of Science and
  Peace
• November 20 - Universal Childrens Day
• December 1 - World AIDS Day (WHO)
• December 2 - International Day for the Abolition
  of Slavery
• December 3 - International Day of Disabled
  Persons
• December 5 - International Volunteer Day for
  Economic and Social Development
• December 10 - Human Rights Day
• December 29 - International Day for Biological
  Diversity

United Nations Human Rights information
www.unhchr.ch
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Linguistic Human Rights

• Edward T. Hall--A Great-Grandfather of NLP by
  Brian Van der Hor -www.cs.ucr.edu/gnick/bvdh/edwa
  rd_t_hall_great_.htm
• Journal of Intercultural Communication -
  www.immi.se/intercultural/
• Intermundo - http//intermundo.net/
• CorpusEye - www.corp.hum.sdu.dk
• Corpus Linguistics - www.athel.com/corpus.html
• Endangered Language Fund - http//sapir.ling.yale.
  edu/elf/index.html
• Ethnologue Database - www.sil.org/ethnologue
• Ethnologue Languages of the World Online -
  www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
• Foreign Languages and Culture -
  www.speakeasy.org/dbrick/hot/foreign.html
• The Human-Languages Page - http//ilovelanguages.
  com

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Sustainable Travel

• Nature Conservancys Ecotourism Publications
  Resources
• http//nature.org/aboutus/travel/ecotourism/resour
  ces/
• National Geographic
• www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/sustainable/
• Tourism Concern
• www.tourismconcern.org.uk
• Sustainable Travel International
• www.sustainabletravel.com/
• International Society of Travel Medicine
• www.istm.org/
• Educational Travel Community
• www.travelearning.com/rsp_tourism/responsible_tour
  ism.php

• Manaca
• www.Manaca.com
• Business Enterprises for Sustainable Travel
  (BEST)
• www.sustainabletravel.org/
• Envirolink
• www.envirolink.org/index.html
• The International Ecotourism Society
• http//ecotourism.org/index2.php?home
• Responsible Travel
• www.responsibletravel.com
• Ecological Footprint Network
• www.footprintnetwork.org
• International Centre for Responsible Travel
• www.icrt.org

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• Informative Resources
• Independent Media Resources
• Media Resources by Country
• Monitoring Agencies

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Independent Media Resources

• Alternative Radio - www.alternativeradio.org
• Alternet - www.alternet.org
• Centre for Research on Globalization -
  www.globalresearch.ca
• Common Dreams - www.commondreams.org
• Consortium for Independent Journalism, The -
  www.consortiumnews.com
• Envirolink Network - http//envirolink.netforchang
  e.com
• Environmental Media Services - www.ems.org
• Foreign Policy in Focus - Institute for Policy
  Studies - www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org

• Global Issues - www.globalissues.org
• Global Spin - www.globalspin.org Inequality.org -
  ww.inequality.org
• International Action Center - www.iacenter.org
• IPS (Inter Press Service) - www.ips.org
• New Internationalist - www.newint.org
• Progressive Response - www.foreginpolicy-infocus.o
  rg
• PR Watch - www.prwatch.org
• Radio for Change - www.workingforchange.com
• TruthOut.com- www.truthout.com
• ZNET - www.zmag.weluser.htm

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Media Resources by Country

• NewsLink - www.newslink.org
• ABYZ News Links - www.abyznewslinks.com
• NewsMax.com - www.newsmax.com
• News and Newspapers Online - http//library.uncg.e
  du/news/
• The Flying Inkpot presents Inkternational News
  Links - http//inkpot.com/news/
• Yahoo! News Directory by Countries -
  http//dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/By_
  Region/Countries/
• Nettizen.com Newspaper Directory -
  www.nettizen.com/newspaper/

• Worldpress.org - www.worldpress.org/
• OnLineNewspapers.com - www.onlinenewspapers.com/
• Harvard College Library Newspapers on Microfilm
  Collection - http//hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/wide
  ner/collections/newspapers/index.html
• Progressive Exchange - www.progressiveexchange.com
  /
• Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory -
  www.towd.com
• Worldwide Free Travel - http//desteo.dotlogix.com
  

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Monitoring Agencies

• US State Department Travel Info -
  www.state.gov/travel/
• United Nations Commission on Human Rights -
  www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/chr.htm
• United Nations Development Programme -
  www.undp.org/
• United Nations Millennium Project Development
  Goals - www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/index.
  htm
• Human Rights Watch - www.hrw.org
• Earth Rights International - www.earthrights.org
• Amnesty International - www.amnesty.org
• Footprint Network - www.footprintnetwork.org
• World Wildlife Fund - www.wwf.org
• KnowMore - www.knowmore.org
• Earth Watch Institute - www.earthwatch.org
• Womens International League for Peace and
  Freedom (WILPF) - www.wilpf.org

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Recommended Literature

• Alternatives to the Peace Corps A Directory of
  Third World and U.S. Volunteer Opportunities
• 9th Edition, edited by Joan Powell (Food First
  Books, 2000)
• Global Citizen A Guide to Creating an
  International Life and Career for Students,
  Professionals, Retirees, Families
• By Elizabeth Kruempelmann (Ten Speed Press, 2002)
• How to Live You Dream of Volunteering Overseas
• by Joseph Collins,Stefano Dezerega, Zahara
  Heckscher, Anna Lappe (2002)
• So, You Want to Join the Peace CorpsWhat to Know
  Before You Go
• Dillon Banerjee (Ten Speed Press, 2000)
• The Back Door Guide to Short-Term Job Adventures
  Internships, Extraordinary Experiences, Seasonal
  Jobs, Volunteering, Work Abroad
• by Michael Landers (Ten Speed Press, 2000)
• The International Directory of Volunteer Work
• 7th Edition by Louise Whetter and Victoria Pybus
  (Vacation Work, 2000)
• Volunteer Vacations Short-Term Adventures that
  Will Benefit You and Others
• 7th Edition, by Bill McMillon Edward Asner
  (Chicago Review Press, 1999)

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Program Choices

• General Resources
• IDEALIST (Action Without Borders)
• www.idealist.org
• International Volunteer Programs Association
  (IVPA)
• www.volunteerinternational.org
• Volunteer Abroad
• www.volunteerabroad.com
• Global Exchange
• www.globalexchange.com
• Education Travel Seminar to Two-Thirds World
  Center for Global Education at Augsburg College
• www.augsber.edu/global

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Program Choices

• Archeology Options
• Council on International Educational Exchange
  (CIEE)
• www.ciee.org
• University Research Expeditions Program (UREP)
• http//urep.ucdavis.edu
• Business and Economic Development
• Citizens Democracy Corps (CDC)/MBA Enterprise
  Corps
• www.cdc.org
• The International Executive Service Corps (IESC)
• www.iesc.org
• United Nations Volunteer Program (UNV)
• www.unv.org

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Program Choices

• Community Development
• Council on International Educational Exchange
  (CIEE)
• www.ciee.org
• Cross Cultural Solutions
• www.crossculturalsolutions.org
• Global Routes
• www.globalroutes.org
• Service Civil International International
  Voluntary Service (SCI-IVS USA)
• www.sci-ivs.org

• Cultural Programs
• Amizade
• www.amizade.org
• Global Citizens Network
• www.globalcitizens.org
• Kibbutz Program Center
• www.kibbutzprogramcenter.org

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Program Choices

• Environmental Protection Research
• Coral Cay Conservation (CCC) Expedition
• www.coralcay.org
• Earthwatch Institute
• www.earhtwatch.org
• Global Service Corps/Earth Island Institute
• www.globalservicecorps.org

• Health Programs
• Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres
  (MSF)
• www.doctorswithoutborders.org
• Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO)
• www.hvousa.org
• Peaceworks Medical Volunteer Program
• www.peacework.org

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Program Choices

• Humanitarian Relief Service
• Concern America
• www.concernamerica.org
• Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI)
• www.habitat.org
• Heifer Project International (HPI)
• www.heifer.org
• Interaction American Council for Voluntary
  International Action
• www.interaction.org
• United Nations Volunteers
• www.unv.org/unvols
• Volunteers for Peace, Inc. (VFP) International
  Workcamps
• www.vfp.org

• Volunteering Online
• Netaid.org Foundation
• www.netaid.org
• Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)
• www.vita.org
• Global Genie
• www.greentravel.org
• globalgenie_at_aol.com

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Fundraising Possibilitieswww.fundraising-ideas.or
g/listings/index.html

• Cookie Dough
• Candy, Chocolate, Etc.
• Candles, Soaps, Scents Lotions
• Catalogs Brochures
• Holiday Items Collectibles
• Discount Cards Books
• First Aid Safety Products
• Cookbooks
• Sell Used Computers
• Special Events
• Spirit, Logo Personalized Items
• Car Wash
• Yard Work

• Painted Tiles
• Sell Used CDs
• Flowers, Bulbs, Trees Plants
• Stationery Calendars
• Magazines Books
• Bake Sale
• Garage Sale
• Religious Group Collaboration
• Snacks, Gourmet Foods, Etc.
• T-Shirts Other Apparel
• Paint Houses
• Give a Class or Seminar
• Store Donations
• Airlines Discounts

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Raising Funds

• Sources
• Campus Groups
• Civic Groups
• Local Companies
• Heritage Groups
• Alumni Associations
• Media Organizations
• Sister Cities
• Friends, Family, Neighbors, and Colleagues

• Tips for Letters
• Be Direct, Personal, and Courteous
• Explain Clearly How the Funds Will Be Used
• Offer Something Valuable to the Recipient
• Include a Photo of Yourself in Your Letter
• Stay Persistent, Determined, and Positive

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Accumulate Frequent-Flier Miles

• 1. Sign up to be a member on every airline that
  you fly.
• 2. Try to book your ticket on the airlines
  website.
• 3. Get a mileage earning credit card.
• 4. Utilize financial institutions offers to
  earn miles.
• 5. Use a long-distance company linked with an
  airlines.
• 6. Buy online with companies linked to airlines.
• 7. Track your miles through www.maxmiles.com.
• 8. Watch Internet for bargains.
• 9. Use your frequent-flier credit card to
  purchase tickets.
• 10. Manage your miles with www.webflyer.com.

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All Aboard!

• Food Drink
• Wayside Shelter
• Money to Go
• Travel Papers
• Telecommunications
• Travel Gear
• Travelers Health
• Weather Worldwide
• Fundraising for Travel
• Discounts
• Study Options
• Work Options

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• Global Genie, Inc.
• PO Box 58595
• Nashville, TN 37205
• www.GreenTravel.org
• globalgenie_at_aol.com
• 1.800.94.GENIE
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