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Oct. 15th, 2006 08:54 am
Practical Traveler: Eco-Conscious Travel: How to Keep Flying and Stay Green
By MICHELLE HIGGINS, The New York Times, October 15, 2006
Concerned about her impact on the environment, Nora Miller, 56, from Tucson, regularly recycles papers and plastics. She saves energy by keeping the lights and air-conditioning off when she can and setting her thermostat at 79 degrees or higher — even on some of Arizona’s hottest days. But when it comes to travel, Ms. Miller said, she isn’t always as conscientious.
“I feel a little bit stuck when I’m traveling,” she said, pointing out that on business trips she tends to stay wherever her company puts her up, and to get there she must use planes and cars that emit heat-trapping greenhouse gases. “I think about it,” she added, “but I don’t always do a good job of doing something about it.”
She did find an opportunity to do something, however, when she booked a trip to Portland, Ore., on Travelocity.com this summer. Among all the add-ons that the site pushed during the booking process was a new program that offers to neutralize the environmental impact of customer trips by planting trees, which absorb carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas. Ms. Miller promptly paid $25 to have enough trees planted, by the calculations of the nonprofit Conservation Fund, the group running the program, to offset the carbon emissions that could be attributed to her trip — and assuaged her travel guilt.
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By MICHELLE HIGGINS, The New York Times, October 15, 2006
Concerned about her impact on the environment, Nora Miller, 56, from Tucson, regularly recycles papers and plastics. She saves energy by keeping the lights and air-conditioning off when she can and setting her thermostat at 79 degrees or higher — even on some of Arizona’s hottest days. But when it comes to travel, Ms. Miller said, she isn’t always as conscientious.
“I feel a little bit stuck when I’m traveling,” she said, pointing out that on business trips she tends to stay wherever her company puts her up, and to get there she must use planes and cars that emit heat-trapping greenhouse gases. “I think about it,” she added, “but I don’t always do a good job of doing something about it.”
She did find an opportunity to do something, however, when she booked a trip to Portland, Ore., on Travelocity.com this summer. Among all the add-ons that the site pushed during the booking process was a new program that offers to neutralize the environmental impact of customer trips by planting trees, which absorb carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas. Ms. Miller promptly paid $25 to have enough trees planted, by the calculations of the nonprofit Conservation Fund, the group running the program, to offset the carbon emissions that could be attributed to her trip — and assuaged her travel guilt.
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