Individual action “vs” system change - it is the latter we need, urgently - and we fully believe in individual choices and actions as a given part in that.
Professor Robert Frank’s studies of “behavioral contagion” support this idea.
Report: Carbon Offsets Used By Major Airlines Based on Flawed System
A new report carried out by Unearthed, Greenpeace’s investigative arm and The Guardian “found that although many forest projects were doing valuable conservation work, the credits that they generated by preventing environmental destruction appear to be based on a flawed and much-criticised system, even though these credits were being used to back up claims of “carbon-neutral flying” and net-zero commitments.”
News From Overseas: Bid to Close Airport and Banning of Short-Haul Flights
Podcast from Flight Free UK: Climate, Social and Racial Justice
A great conversation between horticulturalist Poppy Okotcha, Black Geographers founder Francisca Rockey and Flight Free UK team members Sunita Soundur and Armelle Ferguson on privilege, climate justice, the conflict between wanting to see your family abroad and the actual worry that your homeland will disappear into the ocean and much much more. A must-listen, if ever there was one.
The Climate Emergency - Missing In the News
The organization Media Matters for America’s report on how the news outlets ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News reported on the climate crisis in 2020 confirms what we all already knew - the climate is pretty much left out of the story, even when reporting on climate-related disasters.
Vox Article: "What’s your “fair share” of carbon emissions?"
“Why do we, and our governments, act as if businesses have some sort of “right to wreck” our life support system? Do the wealthy have a right to continue using resources at rates that science says will cause vast future suffering? In effect, this pits existing rights against each other: pursuit of happiness by unlimited consumption interferes with the right to life of others.”
No More Bites of the Big Apple
For someone living in the UK, a trip to The Big Apple might seem like the ultimate celebratory thing to do. Anna Hughes at Flight Free UK learnt differently.
Flight Free Politicians
Podcast from SustainabiliGuy: Cancelled Airport Plans & Socially Powerful Non-Flying
A great podcast episode from SustainabiliGuy - about the cancelled airport plans at Charles the Gaulle, and the impact of individual choices.
Milestone: Over 7000 Pledges Globally!
A Pilot’s Conflict: Staying on the Ground For the Climate’s Sake
Flight Free USA Hosts Advance Screening of "I Am Greta"
Join Flight Free USA in an advance screening of this already acclaimed documentary:
RSVP here to receive link to stream I AM GRETA for free. After viewing the film, join us over Zoom to celebrate the launch Flight Free 2021 and share your reactions to the film. Email us at info@flightfreeusa.org with any questions.
A Former Pilot Gone Flight Free: “Flying Airplanes is Unfair”
End the Climate Silence
Reflecting on a year with Flight Free USA
For the past year we have been organizing a collective Flight Free action in partnership with 10 Flight Free groups worldwide. By last spring over 25,000 people had pledged (of those, 437 Americans from 30 states) to not fly for 2020 for the sake of the climate - as a way to call on our communities, businesses and government for immediate climate solutions. Then COVID-19 hit.