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Question of the Century
On driving versus flying |
Umbra Fisk |
09 Jul 2008 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, My husband asked me this one the other day and I didn't know the answer, so I thought I'd ask an expert. Which is the more environmentally friendly method of travel: 100 people driving their own cars (let's assume non-hybrid vehicles) to a city three hours away, or 100 people flying in a plane to the same city? Natalie W. North East, Pa. Dearest Natalie, Carpooling is one way to be efficient; here on Floor 2B ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, climate, ecological footprint, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics) |
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What if climate destabilization is the business plan?
Maybe we're wrong thinking that airline executives don't get it |
JMG |
27 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| This Washington Post story suggests that the airline industry is not being led by dumb people who just don't get it. No, the darling of the industry, the best and the brightest, the folks heading the industry vanguard, aren't stupid. They get it. They just don't care. They believe that personal wealth will protect them and their children and grandchildren. They plan for growth, even as the planes carry fewer people, which means they plan to keep increasing both their overall ... |
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| Topics: green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics) |
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Carbon-free air travel
We've got it figured out |
Adam Browning |
03 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| It's a big problem, but I've been thinking hard about it and I think I've got it figured out: Of course, it will take a while to perfect the technology. Nominate test-pilots in the comments. For my part, I nominate anyone who complains about Al Gore's plane travel without making an equivalent effort to fight global warming. Here's your chance to show him up, big-time. |
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| Topics: green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics) |
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Cynics can't keep up
Sawing off the limbs we've climbed up to see |
JMG |
03 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| From the article 'Holiday at the End of the Earth: Tourists Paying to See Global Warming in Action,' posted on Common Dreams: 'The idea of global-warming tourism is full of ironies,' he said. 'If enough people expend enough fossil fuels to visit one Warming Island, they will ensure that there will be many more. |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, energy, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics) |
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The jet set
Only the little people fly scheduled airlines |
JMG |
19 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| In response to this story, about how the airport tax paid by proles being herded onto commercial boxcars is spent to make life even cushier for the big guys flying Lear jets, someone defended the poor abused jet setters thus: It is worth pointing out that those 'Learjets' burn bunches of fuel and pay the corresponding fuel taxes, so they aren't getting a totally free ride. Figure 200 gallons an hour as a usable figure (jet pilots figure burn in pounds, with taxes of $.50 a ga ... |
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| Topics: energy, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel (all these topics) |
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Trash talking the airline industry
A little holiday guilt for ya |
Kate Sheppard |
20 Dec 2006 |
Gristmill |
| Just in time for your holiday flight back to whence you came, a little news about the environmental effects of your holiday airline travel that will make you feel almost as guilty as your relatives will. Much like your family tree (OK, maybe just mine), your trip will inevitably generate trash. Airlines throw away tons and tons of cans, bottles, and paper each year, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council. In one year, they dispose of enou ... |
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| Topics: air travel, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, travel, waste (all these topics) |
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