Fly less, fly efficient
APPROXIMATELY 20,000 PLANES ARE OPERATING AROUND THE WORLD, GENERATING ROUGHLY 2% OF ALL CLIMATE EMISSIONS.
By choosing to fly efficiently and less frequently, we could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 1-2%.
map sources: OpenFlights.org (commercial flights) | Visualizing the human footprint, Cooper Thomas; Global Flight Paths, Michael Markieta / ARUP.
FLY LESS, FLY NONSTOP
Globally, about 8.3 million people fly daily. U.S. airlines alone burned about 16.2 billion gallons of fuel during the twelve months between October 2013 and September 2014.
FLY DURING THE DAY
“Flying during the day... is thought to be more eco-friendly, because an airplane’s contrails reflect sunlight, limiting the amount of warming caused by emissions.”
Source: The Guardian, Industries-sectors-carbon-emissions. | Geiling, Natasha. “Can Eco-Conscious Travelers Do Anything To Fly Green?” Smithsonian Magazine, U.S. Department of Energy, carbonfund.org.
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