Environmentally Friendly Travel

The most environmentally friendly travel is no travel at all. However, this is not practical as people need to travel for work, for pleasure, to visit family and friends, or even to prevent burn out and depression( a form of travel for pleasure) and so on a so forth.

So what is my advise for environmentally friendly travel:

*Travel with an airline that is known to have the latest model planes, these tend to be more fuel efficient by 10-18%.
*Carry as little luggage as possible.
*Travel to closer destinations. For example, if you live in the east coast it makes more sense to travel to other places in the east coast instead of the west coast.
*Travel less frequently to further away destinations. Also try to do as many destinations in one trip as you can. For example, if you live on the east coast, it makes some sense to visit LA, SF and Seattle in one trip.
*Use a sail plane, hehe
*Use a "bullet" train, where available

This could be very problematic for people with the travel bug, but who ever said that one can have the cake and keep(eat) it. Some form of sacrifice is needed in the short to medium term to protect the longevity of the planet.

I am well aware of the fact that people actually, especially in America, need to travel more not less, and to further way places to learn about other people and other cultures. At this point in time, all I can provide are the suggestions I made above. I guess exploring the world for many people can wait for a few more years until there is an alternative fuel for planes and planes are more efficient.

Finally I suspect that if travel costs keep rising, that some social habits might change. People will visit parents and family in other states(countries) less frequently and will make more use of other distance technologies like voice and video chat. It is even possible that TG and Christmas will transform themselves from "family" events to friends events, who knows.