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What will all the engineers and scientists do when civilisation collapses?
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008I am going to be wildly optimistic as there is little point in anything else and I’ve been getting very depressed about our chances of averting civilisation crushing climate change lately! I still can’t persuade too many of my friends to cycle to Cornwall or train to Scotland, rather than taking a plane to the [...]
Bikebudi rides to the rescue!
Thursday, October 16th, 2008So you pledge to be free from flying and decide to go the whole hog and give up the car too. . . Worried about how safe it is to cycle? Cecilia Bromley-Martin tells us more about a new way to feel confident about cycling:
It’s true, you’re unlikely to be able to substitute a plane [...]
Daniel Start’s wild swimming around Britain
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008I met Daniel Start at the end of last Summer when he moved into my friend Jo’s house in Bristol. He’d just finished writing a book, Wild Swimming, about all the beautiful rivers and pools he’d visited in the UK where you can go swimming and he’s done a blog for us on his travels [...]
Food, farming and flying
Friday, April 18th, 2008As the impacts of oil price on food lead to hunger for millions, there is no better time to change down a gear and find better ways to spend our precious time relaxing and eating locally.
The ever rising price of oil not only directly impacts the price of food through artificial fertilizers, pesticides and [...]
Love and cycling to Australia
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Paul O’Connor sent in this post on the film he has Directed about the couple that successfully pedaled from Oxford to Sydney, Australia.
Audiences for online videos are exploding. By accepting ethical sponsors such as No Flights ltd, we can give a platform for progressive companies to promote their services to genuinely interested viewers. Bike2Oz is [...]
Scotland to Poland by train
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Toby Sigouin explains the excitement, beauty and ease of a train ride from Edinburgh to Poland
As a long time fan of overland travel I always choose destinations I can travel to by boat and train for my annual vacation.
For my 2007 trip I decided to visit Poland and Berlin, places I have never been to [...]
A low-cost trip to Venice
Friday, November 9th, 2007A low-cost trip to Venice
by John Valentine
Hundreds of thousands of words have been written about the beauty of Venice, a wonder of the world, this jewel is just an overnight train ride away from London – since our visit last in October we have met people who have been on holiday to Sri Lanka, Vietnam, [...]
A rich tapestry of experiences unimaginable by plane
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007John Stewart of Airport Watch describes his trip to Istanbul
It wasn’t any easy choice to make. I was asked to go to Istanbul to speak at a conference. To take the train or the plane from London? I plumped for the train. Despite some difficulties along the way, which I’ll tell [...]
Berlin for Breakfast
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007John Valentine, founder of the original flightpledge sight, is travelling by train around Europe this year and we are posting his experiences here on LowFlyZone. . . Seeing European destinations by train is one of the most rewarding ways to travel [Ed.]
‘Yes, we know you are against short and medium haul flying – but what’s [...]