By being a part of the Flight Free 2021 campaign, we can have a different message: when individuals join together and shun air travel, industry and the government will need to help deliver solutions. This includes more efficient and affordable ground transport and the eventual electrification of air travel.

Unlike airline mileage plans, Flight Free is the gift that keeps on giving. I’ve learned how to stay home, discovered the joy of locally grown, plant-based food, and I finally get to know my own backyard.

In early adulthood, I thought it the most normal thing to jump on a plane to Scotland to visit friends that I’d made in Saudi, for instance. Now I understand that I have had more than my fair share of all that carbon emissions craziness

I drove home, staring out the window in awe at the landscapes I would have only looked upon impassively if I’d flown. I felt like I was seeing the country for the first time, even though I’d flown over it so many times. And maybe that’s one of the biggest benefits of not flying--you realize just how much you are a part of the earth when you exist on its level, not hovering above.

I am a huge advocate for rail as it is way more fuel efficient than cars or planes.

I am pledging to be flight free in 2021 because I believe that burning hydrocarbons in our outer atmosphere is contributing to the destruction of this very delicate film of air that protects us from the sun's more harmful rays.

I've chosen to not fly during the climate emergency - I'm not waiting for climate policy to tell me this or tax me for it. There are frequent debates about the importance of individual climate action vs. system change. For me they are two sides of the same coin. I wouldn’t be able to show up for one without the other. Many of us are already embracing the cultural shift that needs to happen to transition off of fossil fuels and we have good stories to share in this Flight Free gallery. Welcome!