Comments on: Mark green approach to travel

By: Dane Boicos

Dane Boicos — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:38:19 +0000

Very interesting post. Thoroughly enjoyed it

By: Airline Flight Codes

Airline Flight Codes — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:21:12 +0000

Wow! Great post
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By: Easy Ways to Go Green

Easy Ways to Go Green — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:46:05 +0000

Great post — with the travel industry continuing to grow, simple solutions like this, as yet only practiced in far too limited a number by airlines, need to instead become the mainstream. And if there are less carriers and less flights and the tickets cost a bit more in order for the planes to be able to land immediately, then so be it. Seems ultimately a small price to pay!

By: Link

Link — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:57:09 +0000

I agree with you that the bulk of the responsibility on this issue should rest with the airlines only because I don’t have much faith in the average traveler making significant changes in their routines.

Nice blog, by the way, I found it searching for more info on the SAS emissions calculator of all things.

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By: A.

A. — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:08:29 +0000

An excellent post Captain! So too is TorAa's comment. Food for thought for all of us. A.'s last blog post..A fetching shade of purple

By: Andrée

Andrée — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:56:13 +0000

How important this is. I have been reading and hearing of Bill McKibben (of Vermont!) who says the three most important things we can do to reduce our carbon use is (1) insulate our houses (2) eat locally and (3) stop using airplanes, which are awful polluters. You have given us so much information here. I hope people pay attention!

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By: RennyBA

RennyBA — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:47:36 +0000

This was a very interesting and readable post captain and you’ve done a real good job in this important matter. Thanks for taking your time and for sharing with us – an eye opener and something to think about.

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By: raja

raja — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:16:37 +0000

Halo Captain…Im boarding the ship after a long time, since my exams are going on in my college….. I also write about global warming and stuff very often. This is the way to create awareness to your readers. Your fans will follow some of your instructions atleast, like me

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By: claudie

claudie — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:04:30 +0000

“fight against winds and tides”, to progress and save our planet!

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By: TorAa

TorAa — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:51:31 +0000

Interesting post.
Allthough working in a highly global company, I have not been travelling in business for years. Most of our meetings is “Phone” meetings supported by computer presentations – a technology now advanced enough to replace most – at least internal, business travelling/meetings. Also educational classes.

Biofuel, can be of great value to the environment, but, if farmers replace food production with fuel production, we will have a new serious challenge: Lack of food. Special in the poorest countries
(Like opium and kokain etc in other senses).

Large windmills looks also promising. But we have observed killing of birds in large amounts.

Solarcells and Thorium seems to be the best energy source in the long run.

Metan, in all reports I’ve read, is more dangerous to the climate than CO2. But, then again we talk about Agriculture. Rice and Cattles. Which we hardly can reduce or taxe like fuel for Cars, Aircrafts, Trains, Ships and Powerplants.

We must also be willing to pay for keeping and bringing the Rain Forests back to what was the status 50 years ago. They are depending on CO2 – if lack of Rainforest then surplus of CO2.
The more of the Rainforest we burn down, the less we can travel, which will have an enourmous impact of tourisme , again the poorest countriest will be the loosers.

The North European evergreen forests are tremendous and important purification “machines” – as well as the North American. An effort to bring them back to the beginning of the 1800 hundreds would have a very positive impact.

One thing is the Global Warming.
Another thing that seems to hit the Earth much earlier is the fact that half of the worlds population will lack clean, fresh water by 2025. And that is really just around the corner.
Lack of fresh, clean water is undoubtly caused by humans. From production fascilities, chemicals and agriculture.

Yes, we have challenges in the years to come. I only wished the discussions and the search for sustainable solutions would be more balanced – not only a question of reducing the emission and paying taxes for CO2 (incl relief taxes to “help” poor countries.) Politicians and experts can travel to meeting after meeting for years – but if more than 3 billion people suffer from polluted water in 17 years time – then they have mislead the people of all countries and animals and plants would be extinct for ever. Bright Future?

Have a Dom

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