Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Orangutans Show Us a Better Way of Eating

    Jan 20, 2026 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    How are you progressing on your New Year’s resolutions? If you’re like most people, you gave up on them surprisingly fast, with the second Friday in January often called “Quitter’s Day,” because many abandon goals by then. By the second week of February, an estimated 80% of people have scrapped their ambitions.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Father Time and Nature’s Defiance of Aging

    Dec 30, 2025 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    We’ve just about reached the 2025 finish line. Father Time—that elderly, bearded man with an hourglass in one hand and a scythe in the other—will once again make his appearance on December 31 as the symbol of aging, the unstoppable passage of time and the inevitable end of things.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Nature in 2025: Aid to Attention, Happiness and Well-Being

    Dec 31, 2024 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    In 2024, I started the year by writing about nature: CO2 emissions, temperatures and the optimism a lot of us felt about clean energy technologies with consistent cost declines.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Good Foods: Blue, Swapped and Grown without Farms

    Jan 30, 2024 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Think back: remember your New Year’s resolutions? One of them was probably to eat healthier. But, chances are, those promises you made to yourself are becoming a distant memory because studies show that most people give up on their New Year’s resolutions by February.

  • Conservation

    New Year 2024: Resolutions and Climate Solutions

    Dec 26, 2023 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    In just about a week, we’ll be celebrating another New Year’s Eve. And along with the merrymaking and reflection on the past year, we’ll also be pondering what we want to accomplish in the next 12 months.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    The Gap Between Humans and Nature Is Growing

    Jan 3, 2023 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Following New Year’s Day, it’s traditional to look back at the year just passed and reflect on our personal and communal accomplishments and setbacks. Putting our collective disappointments aside for the moment, I think there are several areas where we made major strides in 2022: • Robots are now helping us connect with nature.

  • African Safaris

    New Year’s Resolution: Eat Like a Tanzanian

    Dec 27, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    If eating better is one of your goals for the New Year, you’re probably considering adopting guidelines from the popular Mediterranean diet, becoming a vegetarian or, perhaps, following Paleo diet recommendations. But, here’s something you’ve likely never thought about: modeling your eating on a traditional, rural Tanzanian diet.

  • Canada & the North

    Eating Sweets Is Healthy? For Greenlanders, Yes!

    Jan 11, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Was one of your 2022 New Year’s resolutions to take better care of yourself? Did you, perhaps, promise in this COVID-19 era that you’d exercise more and eat healthfully? Does your ongoing grocery list now include items such as apples, avocados, blueberries, broccoli, carrots, kale and lentils? Have you been down this path before?

  • Conservation

    New Year 2022: The Other Lives That Live Alongside

    Dec 28, 2021 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    As we begin to close out the days of 2021, it’s only natural to take a look back at the year that’s about to end and dream of what we’d like to see change and what we hope will happen in 2022.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Just Two Hours in Nature Per Week Brings Health Benefits

    Dec 31, 2019 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    On New Year’s Day, rather than making resolutions, I have a better suggestion: go outside and take a walk. Or don’t take a walk, but just go outside. You don’t even have to be outdoors for long. Why?

  • Conservation

    Green New Year’s Resolutions for 2019 from Nat Hab’s Green Team

    Jan 2, 2019 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    Our whole team here at Natural Habitat Adventures is deeply committed to sustainability. About a third of the employees at our Colorado headquarters are volunteer members of Nat Hab’s Green Team, and one of our company’s Core Ideologies is to Consistently Raise the Bar on Conservation.