Sustainability on a sofa: couchsurfing is the ultimate in living like a local

What better way to experience new places and cultures, and save vital resources, than to stay on someone’s sofa for the night? I’m a bit new to this couchsurfing lark. With over 7 million members in 100,000 cities, Couchsurfing.org, founded in 2004 as a non-profit organisation although since filed as a company, has become a