one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog

Not something you usually think about. Airports themselves can have a pretty heavy environmental impact.

it is a serious distortion to imply, as the top ten lists usually do, that there is any equivalence between these lifestyle preferences and the serious decisions that really reduce emissions

Little efforts do not big changes make

Nice rundown on the pros and cons of air travel versus other means of transport.

I am still in Beijing as I write this. It is going to be a long walk home.

John Thackara reads Monbiot's Heat

A student moving to the UK from the US decided to give up flying and get to his destination without planes or cars. His weblog describes how he did it. I admit I’ve been eyeing a transatlantic journey on a cargo ship for a while now although I need to figure out the damage that does.

we face a clear choice: reduce aviation's expansion, or give up on tackling climate change altogether

Caroline Lucas on our love of flying