Fort Negrita Blog — Travel

for an earth-inspired person like me, resorts can be a cringe-worthy experience. considering the amount of food waste, energy waste, excess materials, and privileged guests 🙄; it would seem like a resort would drive me crazy! and trust me i've been driven away from resorts before. but this time, i decided to focus on all the ways in which i could be zero waste at the resort. here's a few things i did to minimize my carbon footprint at the decamron in haiti 1. while eating at the buffet ONLY PICK UP WHAT YOU CAN EAT. the old adage from...

for my last full weekend in south america, i knew i wanted to take a solo trip. i had three choices: arica, the northern most chilean city, but also super far from valdivia, it would have required a plane and i really wanted to take the bus. two, i could have went to chilloe, chile’s quiet little patagonia island with a cute penguin population. three accross the chile/argentina border to bariloche.  after reading about one of the mot praised trails in bariloche, and my hunger for more passport stamps, i went with bariloche.  here’s a quickee on my trip.      i can recall all of the best times of my life: mountain biking in the andes, my undergrad graduation night...

As cool, calming and tranquil as water can be, the universal solvent has been the hot subject of many discussions since the summer. Dakota Access Pipeline, that’s a water problem. The Southeast’s record breaking drought since the 1960s, that’s a water problem. Flint, Michigan’s water scandal, that’s a water problem. Even 2016 being the hottest year on record, that’s a water problem. SIDEBAR: I'm also sharing photos from my trip to Joshua Tree, with my beloved 'community.'OK Ree, why do you keep talking about water?We can thank our entire existence on two things: the water and the sun. Water is...

(Click here for photo album.) Traveling to Austin for SXSWEco was one of the highlights of my year. What I didn't realize until after attending the conference was that some of the biggest impressions on my life including: watching Bill Nye the Science Guy as a child, reading The Upcycle three years ago and my forever relationship with hip hop all shaped my role as an environmentalist. MEETING PEOPLE One of the best things about conferences is the people that you get to meet. In the average 27k days a human lives we only have a couple to meet with...

Want to get lost without going too remote or to another country? Go to Perdido Key's Johnson Beach. It's one of the best getaways for someone living in Georgia or Florida. And great for people searching for primitive beach options.With it being a 'key' you're surrounded by water on both sides gulf in the front and a lagoon in the back. There is so much to be said about the beauty on Perdido Key beach. Know the moon phase when you take your trip. We camped out when the moon was a little past a half waxing. So in the...