Articles tagged “Green Air Travel”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Mile High Quickie… in Coach By Laurel House IN Food & Health Nov 12 2010 Going on a jet plane is no longer the luxury it once was. Between layovers and delays, lack of leg room and food, it’s easy to get antsy, angry, and over it all really fast. Which is why you need to move your body. More than toning muscles and trimming off fat, fact is that fitness is known to combat fatigue, minimize frustration, and keep blood flowing (which can fight off blood clots that form from sitting for too long). So how do you workout without sashaying through the aisles, knocking elbow and tripping on sleepers’ feet on your way? By getting staying exactly where you are and working out in your seat. Yes, even in coach. + READ MORE

Get Ready for Low-Impact Lift Offs--Solar Powered Plane Takes Flight By Jessica Root IN Travel & Outdoors Apr 12 2010 Thanks to Swiss adventurer Bertrand Piccard, a prototype solar plane took a fuel-free lift off and jaunt. The two-hour flight was a test to see if the aircraft boasting the wingspan of a Boeing 747 and the weight of a small car, could keep a straight trajectory. + READ MORE

Readers' Choice Winners for TreeHugger's Best Of Green Awards - Travel and Nature By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Travel & Outdoors Apr 8 2010 By awarding excellence in more than 200 categories across eight topics, TreeHugger applauds the pioneers who rise above business-as-usual in search of a better way. And this year was extra special - it included readers' choice winners. + READ MORE

Denver International Airport Starts Composting By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Apr 5 2010 DIA is already working on the world's greenest parking lot (which includes solar and wind power) - now it's composting. + READ MORE

How Green is the Airline Industry, Really? By Sara Novak IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 26 2010 According to Seat Guru, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has set a goal of creating a zero-emissions plane within 50 years and the European Union is implementing an emissions cap and trading system for airlines that will go into effect by 2012. But how environmentally responsible is the industry currently? + READ MORE

"Greenest" Parking Lot Planned For Country's Largest Airport By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Jan 15 2010 In the biggest ironic headline of the year (so far), the world's greenest parking facility will soon be open at the largest airport in the country: solar farms, wind farms, methane-to-energy, and a green private car service. Really. + READ MORE

Truly Gifted: An A-Z DIY Holiday Workshop For The Traveler On Your Holiday List By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Travel & Outdoors Dec 22 2009 A high-octane storm blanketed areas of the Northeast during the peak of the holiday shopping and travel season. Stranded for hours and sometimes days, makes packing for the unknown challenging. What do travelers need? + READ MORE

How to Travel Green This Holiday Season By Michael Graham Richard IN Tech & Transport Nov 17 2009 Soon it will be Thanksgiving, a long weekend that marks the beginning of the holiday season in the US. It's a safe bet that most of you who are reading this will be traveling to go celebrate with family and friends, so let's take a moment to think a little bit about ways to make these trips less energy-intensive and less polluting. + READ MORE

Winning the Eco-Argument: 'The Plane is Flying With You On It or Not, So Just Fly' By Mat McDermott IN Travel & Outdoors Aug 17 2009 Here's how to win the eco-argument when you don't want to fly on a trip and they counter with "The flight is happening whether you're on it or not, so just fly". + READ MORE

Common Airport Whim Purchases You're Better Off Skipping By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 24 2009 People on long layovers get into survival mode.Bottled Water Since folks can n't bring a thermos full of water past security, people buy enough bottled water once they are inside the airport to cross the Sahara. + READ MORE

That Cross Country Flight You Just Took Emitted as Much Carbon as the Rest of Your Life By Mat McDermott IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 23 2009 OK, well maybe not that much, but if you're the average resident of the United States it was just under 15% of your entire carbon emissions for the year.If you want to take the great American road trip all by your lonesome, driving straight across the entire continent, and have a car with average fuel economy, you've... + READ MORE

How to Fly to France and Reduce your Carbon Footprint By Lloyd Alter IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 6 2009 Over at TreeHugger I have been a big proponent of the idea that "Flying is Dying", as George Monbiot put it. Flying puts a lot of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and because of radiative forcing, it causes just about twice as much damage as it does when emitted at ground level. + READ MORE

Quickly Calculate The Carbon of Your Flights By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Tech & Transport Jun 23 2009 So, you've checked yourself and figure you're a pretty green globetrotter. You know all about how flying creates some serious carbon emissions, and that offsetting your carbon footprint is a big part of being an eco-friendly traveler. + READ MORE

If You Gotta Go, Don't Go on the Plane By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 4 2009 I think it was Little Orphan Annie (who had horribly reptilian eyes in the newspaper comic) who said, "When you gotta go, you gotta go." For the most part, that's an all-around truism. If you have to go to the bathroom, you should make an honest attempt to use the bathroom. Otherwise, you'll end up ruining your clothes or losing friends. Going is the only good option you have. + READ MORE

Do Not Fly at Night By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors May 28 2009 We all know that flying in an airplane takes a terrible toll upon the environment. Skipping one flight saves as much CO2 as going vegetarian for an entire year. And going vegetarian is one of the greenest things you can do in terms of CO2 savings. + READ MORE

Green Your Long-Distance Relationship By Josh Peterson IN Work & Connect May 27 2009 Slate.com has an article about dating locally. It's a good article, full of facts and figures that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that dating someone who lives far away is bad for the environment. Airplanes pollute a lot. I guess we'll all have to end our long-distance relationships and settle for someone who lives down the block. + READ MORE

Skipping One Cross-Country Flight = Going Vegetarian for a Year By Michael Graham Richard IN Food & Health May 21 2009 The list of things you can do to reduce your negative impact on nature is very long (that's what Planet Green and TreeHugger are all about), but certain things are easier to do than others and can have just as big an impact as some of the harder things. + READ MORE

Need an Escape?: 21 Ways to Green Summer Vacation By Eric Leech IN Travel & Outdoors May 18 2009 Another summer is set to kickoff. If you are like a lot of people, you have already settled on your vacation plans, but have you thought about how green they are? You aren't alone if you haven't. There are a lot of steps that go into planning a trip, which is why we have made going green easy for you with this helpful guide of 21 tips to consider before you finalize those summer vacation plans. + READ MORE

Take a Trip to Super Green Switzerland By Sara Novak IN Travel & Outdoors Apr 28 2009 Switzerland already has so much to boast. Nice people, the Alps, chocolate and now according to [Yale University's Environmental Performance Index (EPI), green prowess. EPI measures environmental health, air pollution, water resources, and productive natural resources. + READ MORE

Have to Fly For Business? 5 Tips to Green Your Trip By Mat McDermott IN Tech & Transport Apr 21 2009 If you're like me—trying to minimize the impact your electricity use, your diet, your daily transportation and your things have on the planet?and have analyzed the carbon footprint of your whole life using a tool such as WattsOn, you very quickly see that one or two trips a year by plane can equal the impact of the + READ MORE