I envision a future where our global culture shifts, and air travel (as well as all polluting, unsustainable activities as a whole) is/ are seen as an old fashioned thing: a thing we did before we knew better. And I’m proud to do my part in offering living proof that it is really quite fun on the other side.

My last flight was in Summer 2016 to visit South Korea.  I have not flown since then. 

I used to love flying all over the world and visiting Korea was a regular trip to me without thinking twice. Now, I see differently about traveling by air ever since I have become more aware of living sustainably.  If covid pandemic did not occur, I was pretty sure that I would not have stopped flying frequently.  

I prefer traveling more locally and my desire to visit foreign countries by air has been significantly lowered.  I pledge to fly home only once every couple of years.

What are your alternatives to flying?

Train and videoconferencing, walking, bicycling, poetry, and drL--an un-technology that slows us down instead of speeding us up

I pledge to have less frequent air travel and to be more intentional and grateful for the ability to travel when I do. Primarily as a climate action and also as a way to commit to living fully in my local region, being more connected with my community, and experiencing the beauty and natural wealth of the fragile habitats we reside in. I work on solid waste policy and methane emissions mitigation projects and believe there is no limit to the ways we can all be climate activists!

I have taken a class with Josh Spodek and used a carbon calculator to determine that I had contributed 20 tons in 2023 by flying alone. I realized I wanted to change that. I live in Mexico and my children and grandchildren are in the US so I'm pledging to do one flight a year to Houston and to use busses and trains from there to visit family.

Eliminating even one long-distance flight saves more carbon than my family generates at home and from the car for an entire year. I love lowering my emissions by doing less and saving money! Meanwhile, I am working for systemic change through Citizens' Climate Lobby. We need changes big and small to get to net zero - and we can do it!!

With the exception of one round-trip flight for a family emergency in 2021, we have taken and honored the Flight-Free Pledge since January 2020. Four years! We've been taking cross-country train trips instead, and we recently bought an electric vehicle. Thank you for all that you do!

I plan on flying 1-2 trips only, in 2024, saving them for family needs.  Retired, I can drive my car only every other day, as best as I can, walking to  grocery, drug and park nearby. When someone tells me high handedly, that the plane will fly anyway I respond that I can live with myself, and lighten some of my climate despair. I've been involved in climate actions for 10 plus years in my career, so it’s part of who I am. I've scheduled a train vacation to Glacier National Park in June.

We MUST ALL do something. So happy to find this community.

I strongly believe that everyone, especially those with financial means, must do everything within their personal power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In this climate emergency, every action taken to end the use of fossil fuels matters.  I have an all electric car, so I have no excuse not to stop emitting carbon for travel. It's on my bucket list to plot out interim destinations for car charging (and recharging myself from driving) along the 1000 mile road trip to visit my daughter. Embracing slow travel as my new normal makes complete sense, since I am slowing down as I age. It would be nice to live by Emerson's words "it's not the destination, it's the journey".

Seems a no-brainer to me. Until planes can fly with zero emissions, I’m grounded!

I learned from the first XR Talk I attended in 2018 about the emissions of flying. I haven't taken a flight since then. I have reduced my emissions to around 2.5 tonnes CO2e p.a. I visit with family overseas by Zoom.