adventure responsibly with LOGE Camps’ sustainable travel program

The adventure-focused hospitality group partners with nonprofit organizations Cool Effect™ and Trees for the Future in an effort to further its efforts in stewardship of the outdoors

SEATTLE, Wash. (Dec. 3, 2019) -- LOGE Camps [pronounced: lodge] proudly announces the launch of its Sustainable Travel Program, in conjunction with Giving Tuesday, as part of the brand’s promise to continually increase and evolve its efforts in sustainability and environmental impact. The program will allow all LOGE-goers to opt in’ to the $3 donation program at checkout when booking a stay at any LOGE Camps property. 

The LOGE Camps team hopes the new program will not only make a direct impact in offsetting its guests’ carbon impact from travel, but that it will also educate guests on the role individuals play in the outcome of the environment. LOGE selected Cool Effect™ and Trees for the Future as the two non-profit partner organizations to support through the Sustainable Travel Program. Two dollars from every donation will go to Cool Effect and one dollar will be donated to Trees for the Future.

“As lovers of the outdoors, we believe it’s up to every one of us to help better the planet and places we play,” said Johannes Airnes, CEO and Founder of LOGE Camps. “Understanding how our actions, especially when adventuring, impact the world is particularly important, and finding the right partner organizations to propel this effort forward was paramount to our decision.” 

Cool Effect works with a multitude of different projects around the globe, all of which are aimed at decreasing carbon footprint while simultaneously benefiting local communities. Two dollars from every one of LOGE’s Sustainable Travel donations will support the building of BioDigesters — systems that manage waste and provide communities with access to clean energy via the  Building Biogas Digesters in Rural Vietnam project. To date, over 150,000 BioDigesters have been built in Vietnam. In supporting this project, for every $5.77 donated, one ton of CO2 emissions produced when traveling to LOGE Camps locations will be offset, meaning each Sustainable Travel donation will cover the carbon of 1000+ miles driving or a three-hour flight. 

LOGE’s other partner organization, Trees for the Future,  is on a mission to provide oxygen-producing benefits via the use of ‘forest gardens’  in sub-saharan Africa. For every one dollar contributed via LOGE’s Sustainable Travel Program, ten trees will be planted in the form of a ‘forest garden’ — promising not only a positive environmental  impact, but also an improvement in population stability and food resources in some of the areas of the globe that will be hit hardest by climate change. 

“LOGE Camps believes in helping people engage with the outdoors so that they care more about the environment, and a large part of the way that we do this is by providing incredible places to play in beautiful outdoor settings,'' said Garret Van Swearingen, Director of Content and Brand Partnerships. The LOGE team  recognizes that bringing people to these outdoor towns increases usage of local non-profit work such as trail building, avalanche forecasting, and other outdoor organizations, which is one of the many reasons LOGE Camps has always committed one percent of revenue from each LOGE location to a local non-profit that fosters responsible outdoor use and access.

The brand’s Sustainable Travel Program is a continuation of this effort to encourage guests to Live Outside Go Explore, while also fostering and incentivizing  environmentally friendly, sustainable travel habits to some of the most beautiful destinations around the country.

For more information on LOGE Camps’ Sustainable Travel Program, please visit www.logecamps.com/sustainable-travel.