Tagged: humanity

Teja on the Horizon

1 day ago

One reason why I publish my entire carbon offset every year and not just the flights (usually around February, if you're looking back in my timeline), is to show you the contribution of flights into the energy mix, and the difference between a year when I made intercontinental trips, vs regional, vs a year when I travelled less.

On the one hand, as someone from the developing world, I can say that the efficiency gains in the aviation industry of the past few decades has democratised mobility in much the same way as the internet has democratised access to knowledge. On my blog you can read what it is that I travel for, and to represent whom.

However, a great proportion of air travel growth are driven by increasingly frivolous reasons. Since air travel is incredibly carbon intensive, this is driving an increasingly untenable impact on the planet.

How much of that can be abated, I wonder, if there was no peer pressure to travel?

#wanderlust #frequentflyer #consumerism #FOMO #ThinkTuesday

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To fly or not to fly? The environmental cost of air travel | DW | 10.01.2018

Teja on the Horizon

2 days ago

#WebMonday
I'm sure I'll return to Nepal for when EthicalCashmere is ready for its next stage. If I opt fo fly from Kathmandu to Pokhara, I'll remember Yeti Airlines.

#carbonoffsetting #carbonneutral #airline

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Yeti Airlines becomes Nepal’s first carbon neutral airline | UNDP in Nepal

Yeti Airlines has become the first airline in Nepal, and most probably South Asia, to successfully reduce and offset its tota...