{"id":1815,"date":"2006-01-07T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2006\/01\/07\/royal-carribean-cruises-honored-for-environmental-excellence\/"},"modified":"2006-01-07T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T16:18:00","slug":"royal-carribean-cruises-honored-for-environmental-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/royal-carribean-cruises-honored-for-environmental-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Carribean Cruises Honored for ‘Environmental Excellence’"},"content":{"rendered":"
It wasnt’ that long ago that the cruise industry was taking a real beating from environmental groups for less-than-green practices at sea: namely, dumping a whole range of toxins, from human wastes to dry cleaning chemicals, directly into the ocean. Now, one of the companies that received special attention from enviros, Royal Carribean, has received <\/a> the Kuoni Travel Group<\/a>‘s 2005 Green Planet Award for environmental excellence and innovation, according to GreenBiz.com. I can’t find any information about the award on Kuoni’s site, but Royal Carribean is certainly using this news as a way of touting its environmental initiatives<\/a>. Their efforts certainly look sincere — any evidence otherwise?<\/p>\n I had to deal with a particularly ugly bout of liberal guilt when the environmental allegations first came out, as my wife and I had celebrated our honeymoon aboard a Royal Carribean ship (can’t remember which one). We’d love to do another cruise — they are fun — but I’ll definitely be checking the environmental records…<\/p>\n Categories: environment<\/a>, sustainability<\/a>, award<\/a>, cruise ships<\/a>, travel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It wasnt’ that long ago that the cruise industry was taking a real beating from environmental groups for less-than-green practices at sea: namely, dumping a whole range of toxins, from [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n