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Can a Travel Writer be an Environmental Activist?  

In the countdown to World Environment Day, we tried to find travel writers online who are activists for the planet. T.W.O. put out a call, using citizen science, across a range of social media channels to ask who knew of any environment activist travel writers. The first responses are starting to arrive. Please feel free to send us yours using the Comments below, or on your preferred social media platform. #enactwrite

Wild flower planting in the tourism space on the route from the University of Caen to the Château de Caen, Normandy. Photo: Dr C. Mansfield 9th May 2022.

First to appear on Thursday morning, 20th April 2023, in our research for the list is


Shivya Nath, author of the best-selling book The Shooting Star nominated by Saumya Kapil via LinkedIn. Shivya is on LinkedIn at and the book is on Goodreads and on Amazon, link below:



Mike MacEacheran on Twitter as ‪@MikeMacEacheran‬ was announed Winner: Sustainable Travel Writer of the Year 2023 on 18 April 2023 by @TravMedia_UK‬ demonstrating a recognition of environmental issues in travel industry publishing. 

Scott Stoll who did the maths and published the now famous blog article in February 2022: 'How Long Before The Earth Runs Out Of Oxygen?' on his blog ScottStoll 

George Monbiot Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet. George Monbiot also writes a column in the British newspaper, The Guardian 





Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell: The Book of Wilding, it's worth getting the hardback edition:




Countdown to World Environment Day 5th June

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