Air Travel

空中旅行

It’s a fact of life that there are some trips where air travel is the only feasible way to get there, without taking up a large chunk of your precious time. However convenient air travel undoubtedly is, you should remember that during your trip hundreds of tons of damaging greenhouse gases are pumped out into the atmosphere. Scientific evidence suggests that the effects of distributing gases at 30,000ft+ are considerable. Here are a few tips to fly as green as possible.

生活中确实有那么一些旅途只有靠飞机才能到达,不用占用你大量宝贵的时间。不管空中旅行的便利有多部不容置疑,你应该记住在你飞行的过程中,几百吨破坏性的温室气体被排放到大气中。科学证据证明在30,000英尺以上排放气体的影响相当巨大。这里有一些小贴士,让你尽可能飞得环保。

21. Online instead of face to face: There are so many different online meeting solutions that let you chat, video conference, share and edit documents with presenters and delegates. These are so good that you can conduct business from your desk instead of flying. Of course there will be times when you simply must go and meet the person, but if every business could replace some flights with an online meeting things will start looking up for our shared environment.

21.用上网取代面对面:有很多不同的线上会议方案可以让你们聊天、开视频会议、和推荐者与代表们一起分享和编辑文件。这些都可以让你在书桌前做生意而免去飞行的烦恼。当然有些时候你必须去见一个人,但是如果每单生意都能用线上会议来取代飞行,一切都向我们的共享环境更近了一步。

22. Think about where you are going: Sure, you need a break on the beach. But do you have to fly to Egypt when you can catch a train to somewhere in France or Spain? For our American friends, why not vacation in Florida or North / South Carolina instead of the Caribbean? If you can choose a destination closer to home you might not need to fly at all and take the train instead.

22.想一下你要去哪里:当然,你需要到海边休息休息。但是当你明明可以坐火车到法国或西班牙某个地方的时候,你一定要飞去埃及吗?对我们的美国朋友来说,为什么不能用福罗里达或北/南卡罗来纳的假期来取代加勒比呢?如果你选择一个离家近一点的地方,你就不用飞来飞去了,只要坐火车就行了。

23. Combine work and play: If you just have to attend a meeting somewhere overseas, why not book a few days off after the meeting and stay there for a week or so? That way you get the best of both worlds and you don’t have to fly as much, which will massively reduce your carbon footprint.

23.劳逸结合:如果你只是要去海外某个地方开个会,为什么不在会议结束后多定几天,在那里呆上一个星期呢?这样你就不用飞太多次,大大减少了二氧化碳足迹,对你对世界都是最好的。

24. Carbon offset flights: Many airlines are waking up to carbon offsetting and passing some of the expense on to their passengers. If you are so inclined (and can afford it) you can pay a little extra for your flight and the airline will take your extra money and invest it directly into planting trees. Companies such as Treeflights exist in the UK to do just that, planting trees in Wales and Peru.

24.碳素偏置飞行:很多航空公司都意识到碳素偏置法,把一部分开支算到乘客头上。如果你一定要坐飞机(而且你也负担得起)你可以为你的飞行多付一点钱,航空公司会把这部分钱投资到植树上。像英国Treeflight那样的公司已经在这么做了,在威尔士和秘鲁植树。

25. Travelling to the airport: Most hub and regional airports have good public transport links, which means you can catch the bus or train instead of driving to the airport and adding to your carbon footprint even more.

25.坐车去机场:大多数集散中心和地区性机场都有很优良的公共运输链接,那就以为着你可以坐巴士或火星和去机场,而不用自己开车,那会增加你的碳素足迹。

28. Pack light: Your luggage is weighed at checkin so that the amount of fuel needed for the flight can be calculated. Rudimentary mathematics suggests that when it comes to luggage and emissions, less is more.

28.轻装上阵:登记的时候你的行李要称重,来计算飞机飞行需要的燃料量。数学原理表明,行李和排放都是越少越好。

27. Air travel ticketing: Simple, choose an electronic ticket rather than a paper ticket and thereby reduce the need for paper to be wasted.

27:机票:很简单,选择电子票而不是纸质票,减少浪费的纸张。

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