How To Holiday Greener

1  Devon & Cornwall

Miranda opens the series in Devon, one of the UK's greenest counties and finds out how holidaying greener is all about making informed choices. During her trip to the South West coast, Miranda samples the services of two Gold Awardee Winners of the Green Tourism Business Scheme and finds out how you can really tell if something is as green as it claims to be. In the second half of the programme, Miranda crosses the border to Cornwall and discovers how man is threatening the county's most precious asset - its beaches, and explores the fragile landscape of Bodmin Moor. She rounds off her trip with a visit to one of the world's greenest attractions, The Eden Project, and enjoys some traditional fish and chips with a twist!
Duration: 30'

 

2  London

Can city breaks really be green? Miranda heads to London, the world's most popular city break destination to find out. During the programme Miranda explores the greenest ways to travel around a bustling city centre and investigates the green credentials of one of London's finest hotels. She samples the organic delights at Acorn House, London's first truly environmental sustainable restaurant and takes a stroll through one of London's most magnificent green urban spaces. At the London Wetland Centre Miranda explores the city's wildlife and spends an afternoon shopping with one of London's chicest eco-shoppers.
Duration: 30'

 

3  The New Forest

Recreation and tourism brings many benefits to an area but it can also bring a number of problems too. Miranda travels to The New Forest in Hampshire where sustainable tourism has been an integral part of the forest's management for almost twenty years. Miranda discovers the beauty of the forest and uncovers the reasons behind its success as a sustainable tourist destination. She visits the local businesses who are helping to make it happen and discovers a whole world of local food producers who are cutting down on food miles and providing visitors with a fantastic selection of local, seasonal and organic produce
Duration: 30'

 

4  Wales

Miranda takes a look behind the scenes at a country where greener living is part of the national psyche, which means you holiday greener without even knowing it! Green locals are two-a-penny: there's the local bike hire company that kits itself out with recycled bicycles, the local organic dairy farmer who recycles his cow muck to power his organic cheese production and the local hotel, which stocks this sustainable cheese and plans to bed it's guests on the greenest of mattresses for the greenest of sleeps. Even the local car ferry is showing support and has lent its decks to a local dolphin conservation charity, which encourages passengers to lend a hand in spotting and counting Wales' coastal wildlife.
Duration: 30'

 

5  Scotland

Ditching the car for public transport is all well and good in a city but what if you fancy a pint in the most remote pub in Britain? In this episode Miranda discovers that sometimes it's actually more convenient to explore by train than by plane or automobile. From the wilds of the Highlands, where Miranda kayaks with seal pups, to the 'wilds' of the country's largest music festival that has itself gone green, it's always possible to holiday sustainably leaving little more than your footprints behind. And, as Miranda finds out, it doesn't have to be done at the expense of mod cons. Be it a solar radio, a wind-up phone charger or solar shower, you can always add a touch of eco-luxury to adventures in the great outdoors.
Duration: 30'

 

6  Norfolk

Not only can tourism be sustainable but it can also be the catalyst behind the regeneration of natural habitats and so the source of sustainability itself! In this episode Miranda sets off to explore a county once ravaged by the excesses of human production - from waterways to forests - but that is today a beacon of success thanks, surprisingly, to mass tourism. It has even greenified its traditional bucket and spade breaks! Miranda visits a local rock producer who only sources East Anglian sugar for his sweets, she luxuriates in the comfort of a boutique hotel that recycles newspapers for chicken bedding and unearths the local descendant of the Guinness dynasty who is brewing local, sustainable beer in his family's age old tradition.
Duration: 30'