Carbon-Neutral Flight
As the owner of a travel website I'm feeling guilty.
What's wrong with setting up a website which provides a list of all airlines flying that route, you may ask.
The rub is that flying is exceptionally bad for the environment.
Due to the carbon emitted, flying is one of the biggest contributors to global warming.
If you want to do one good thing for the environment -don't ever fly!! Carbon neutral flight Where there's a problem, humans seem adept at formulating a solutions (particularly when there's some money in it for them!).
Carbon neutral flights entail spending money on carbon offset schemes to make up for the carbon emitted into the atmosphere during your flight.
For instance, a flight from London to Cape Town emits 1.
1 tons of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere.
To offset this carbon emitted one could, for example, invest in wind energy (which has no carbon footprint).
Carbon offsets are made easy by companies like the Carbon Neutral Company, where one can purchase carbon offsets for your flights (it would cost some $20 to offset the carbon emissions from a flight from London to Cape town).
British Airways' carbon neutral options British Airways have taken something of a lead in the carbon-neutral flight stakes.
When you book your flight on the British Airways site, you have the option to pay for carbon offsets.
An organisation called Climate Care invests the money you pay in sustainable energy projects that tackle global warming by reducing carbon dioxide levels.
Climate Care's projects include a scheme in South Africa that has distributed 50,000 energy efficient lamps via school groups as part of an environmental awareness campaign.
Branson offers a prize Virgin Atlantic's Richard Branson has offered the biggest philanthropic prize this planet has ever seen - the Earth prize will be awarded to the inventor of a "commercially viable design which will result in the net removal of anthropogenic, atmospheric greenhouse gases each year for at least ten years without countervailing harmful effects.
This removal must have long term effects (measured over, say, 1,000 years) and, most importantly, must contribute materially to the stability of the earth's climate.
" Aircraft becoming more fuel efficient In November 2006, as the first airbus A380 to fly in South African skies came in on its final approach, any mumbles about environmental damage from aircraft were drowned about by the deafening noise of its Rolls-Royce engines.
Even though the A380 is the heaviest aircraft ever to use Johannesburg's premier airport, it is also one of the most fuel efficient - the A380 sips just 3 litres of fuel per passenger per 100km travelled, which is up there with the most efficient of motor vehicles.
So, here's one way to reduce your carbon footprint - once it comes along insist on flying with the A380.
What's wrong with setting up a website which provides a list of all airlines flying that route, you may ask.
The rub is that flying is exceptionally bad for the environment.
Due to the carbon emitted, flying is one of the biggest contributors to global warming.
If you want to do one good thing for the environment -don't ever fly!! Carbon neutral flight Where there's a problem, humans seem adept at formulating a solutions (particularly when there's some money in it for them!).
Carbon neutral flights entail spending money on carbon offset schemes to make up for the carbon emitted into the atmosphere during your flight.
For instance, a flight from London to Cape Town emits 1.
1 tons of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere.
To offset this carbon emitted one could, for example, invest in wind energy (which has no carbon footprint).
Carbon offsets are made easy by companies like the Carbon Neutral Company, where one can purchase carbon offsets for your flights (it would cost some $20 to offset the carbon emissions from a flight from London to Cape town).
British Airways' carbon neutral options British Airways have taken something of a lead in the carbon-neutral flight stakes.
When you book your flight on the British Airways site, you have the option to pay for carbon offsets.
An organisation called Climate Care invests the money you pay in sustainable energy projects that tackle global warming by reducing carbon dioxide levels.
Climate Care's projects include a scheme in South Africa that has distributed 50,000 energy efficient lamps via school groups as part of an environmental awareness campaign.
Branson offers a prize Virgin Atlantic's Richard Branson has offered the biggest philanthropic prize this planet has ever seen - the Earth prize will be awarded to the inventor of a "commercially viable design which will result in the net removal of anthropogenic, atmospheric greenhouse gases each year for at least ten years without countervailing harmful effects.
This removal must have long term effects (measured over, say, 1,000 years) and, most importantly, must contribute materially to the stability of the earth's climate.
" Aircraft becoming more fuel efficient In November 2006, as the first airbus A380 to fly in South African skies came in on its final approach, any mumbles about environmental damage from aircraft were drowned about by the deafening noise of its Rolls-Royce engines.
Even though the A380 is the heaviest aircraft ever to use Johannesburg's premier airport, it is also one of the most fuel efficient - the A380 sips just 3 litres of fuel per passenger per 100km travelled, which is up there with the most efficient of motor vehicles.
So, here's one way to reduce your carbon footprint - once it comes along insist on flying with the A380.
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