Flight Free in the press
2024
2024-05-31 | Environmental Connections WXXI News NPR | https://www.wxxinews.org/show/connections/2024-05-31/climate-flying-air-travel-environment-sustainable-vacations
2023
2023-10-30 | The Fallon Forum Radio Show | http://fallonforum.com/climate-is-on-the-ballot/
2023-06-26 | San Francisco Chronicle | Yes, It’s Possible to Give Up Flying for the Climate. These Are the Bay Area Residents Who’ve Done It. | Fifth & Mission Podcast
2023-06-15 | Sierra Magazine | Planes, Trains, and Decarbonization: Is a Future Without Air Travel Possible?
2023-06-14 | Literary Hub | Snapshots of the End of Travel: On Trying to Enter a Personal No-Fly Zone, Amy Benson Wrestles With the Devastating Consequences of Air Travel
2023-05-10 | New Hampshire Public Radio | In the Face of Climate Change, Some Mainers Have Given Up Flying. Or Tried To, Anyway
2023-03-08 | Outside | Should I Stop Flying? It’s a Difficult Decision to Make.
2023-02-06 | New York Times | The No-Jet Set: They’ve Given Up Flying to Save the Planet
2023-01-10 | Vermont Edition | Flying in and out of Vermont: The Good, The Bad, and the Climate Conscious
2022
2022-11-9 | Sierra Magazine | These Americans Quit Flying for the Planet
2022-09-27 | CNN Travel | This Couple Stopped Flying Because of the Climate Crisis and Found a More Rewarding Way to Travel
2022-07-19 | Yahoo Life! | People Are Swearing Off Air Travel Because of Climate Anxiety
2022-07-19 | The Globe And Mail | How to Avoid Airport Chaos by Choosing Flight-Free Travel This Summer
2022-05-28 | The Daily Dose | Should You Ground Yourself? Flight Free Pledges
2022-04-18 | Christian Science Monitor | Grounded and Loving It. Can Giving Up Air Travel Bring Joy?
2022-01-29 | Wired Magazine | What’s It Like to Give Up Air Travel to Curb Climate Change
2021
2021-11-23 | New York Times | Is Flying Home for the Holidays Bad for the Planet?
2021-11-10 | CNN Travel | The Travelers Who Are Turning Their Backs on Airplanes
2021-10-22 | NPR | You Can Now Search for Flights on Google Based on Carbon Emissions
2021-03-08 | Hot House Solutions | Travel Will Never Be the Same Again
2020
2020-12-11 | Washington Post | Air Travel Was Down Significantly This Year. Climate Activists Hope It Stays This Way.
2020-04-01 | Wired Magazine | To Cut Carbon, Ditch Air Travel – And Get on the Right Track
2020-02-26 | Life Hacker | How to Plan a Vacation With a Lower Carbon Footprint
2020-02-18 | BBC | Should We Give Up Flying for the Sake of the Climate?
2020-02-07 | LA Times | Travel by Plane and You Might Get ‘Flight Shamed.’ This Worries Airlines
2019
2019-11-27 | NPR | Choosing Not to Fly Home for the Holidays, for the Climate’s Sake
2019-11-05 | The Concord Monitor: Letter to the Editor | Katherine Leswing: Go Flight-Free in 2020
2019-10-29 | EENews.net | Landmark U.S. Airport Microgrid Divides Climate Advocates
2019-10-14 | The Berkeleyside | Please Don’t Fly in 2020: From Sweden to Berkeley, the ‘Flight Shaming’ Movement Takes Off
2019-09-19 | The San Francisco Chronicle: Letter to the Editor | Ariella Granett: No More Flying
2019-08-10 | The Guardian | Climate Crisis: ‘We Don’t Fly to Go on Holiday Now – And It Doesn’t Cost the Earth’
2019-08-01 | Vox | Air Travel Is a Huge Contributor to Climate Change. A New Global Movement Wants You to Be Ashamed to Fly.
2019-05-22 | The Guardian | Could You Give Up Flying? Meet the No-Plane Pioneers
ALLIES
Further reading
You Can’t Live a 1.5 Degree Lifestyle and Get On A Plane, by Lloyd Alter
Flights of Peril and Privilege Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 by Richard Slimbach, Ph.D., Professor of Global Studies at Azusa Pacific University
Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution by Peter Kalmus