Impact Wanderers
Adventures that Matter
Adventures that Matter
Consumption (food and waste)
How much meat do you eat? How much plastic waste do you generate? How much waste did you avoided? We use this to estimate the environmental impact of your consumption and waste patterns.
Accommodation
Do you stay in large resorts, guesthouses or eco-lodges? We use this data to estimate the environmental impact of your stay, taking into account the local context.
Transport
What quantity of greenhouse gas emissions do you choices of transport emit?
Spend
What is the socio-economic impact of your money? Did you give more to small businesses or large ones? Was your money spent in the local economy? Was your money spent in an organization that seeks to have a "positive impact" ?
Leisure (coming soon)
What type of leisure do you have? Do you favor eco-tourism? Do you have responsible practices?
Volunteering
Do you volunteer in projects that seek to have a positive environmental or social impact?
Step 1: Open the tool here.
Step 2: Fill in the orange cells on the tab "Instructions & Basic Setup.
Step 3: Fill in the orange cells on each aspect that you want to evaluate.
Step 4: View your results on the tab "Dashboard".
Step 5: Send us your feedback!
You need to record:
Hint: We define "small businesses" organisations that tend to be family-run (guest houses, cheap eateries). Medium businesses are by definition larger, potentially franchised, and may employ external staff. Large businesses include chains and large brands. This distinction is not perfect and quite subjective but this is the easiest way we found to be transparent on our socio-economic impact. It is sometimes difficult to make a judgement so they are only "best-estimates".
Hint: In order to assess whether your money is spent in an organization that has a positive impact, we suggest using the following criteria:
1. Does the organisation's products/services solve an environmental or social issue?
2. Is the organisation a mission-driven company, cooperative, charity or non-for-profit?
3. Does the organisation display any information on its impact and/or raise your awareness on a specific social / environmental issue?
4. Does the organisation have any external certification showing its good practices?
5. In your opinion, has the organisation responsible practices in activities that matter?
Check our blog on responsible consumption for more details.
Hint: You can use googlemaps to calculate the distance
Based on the number of nights spent in accommodations with lower environmental impact (camping, eco-lodge, guesthouses) as well as the country's electricity carbon footprint.
Source: your data, International Energy Agency.
Based on the percentage of your spend in local businesses, small in size and with the objective to have a positive social or environmental impact.
Source: your data.
Based on the percentage of the food you consume that is vegetarian and/or organic.
Source: your data, life-cycle analysis databases such as Ecoinvent.
Based on the percentage of your time spent volunteering in projects that seek to have a positive environmental and social impact.
Source: your data.
Based on the greenhouse gas emissions generated by your transports
Source: your data, DEFRA, Ecoinvent, discussions with local populations
Based on the quantity of plastic you wasted, along side the quality of the waste management system in the country where you are.
Source: your data, World Bank, Eurostat, UNEP
And please send us your feedback and ideas, we want it to be as collaborative as possible!
