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Friday, October 30th, 2009My dad is a wonderful and optimistic man, he believes in the ingenuity of man to technofix our greatest challenges such as climate change and energy scarcity. He often sends me articles like this in the Vacouver Sun.
A $1.3-billion technological upgrade to Canada’s air-traffic-control system is taking off in another way: It will bring cleaner [...]
Iszy Peck - normal is not the same as right!
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Iszy Peck is a Bristol based singer-song writer, with a lot on her mind . . . .
Let’s Save Ourselves
Are we going to tell ourselves that it is our right to live however we want? Is it too hard to change? Or, are we going to accept that many of the things we now consider [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Is Videoconferencing the Antidote to Business Air Miles?
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Michael Daw is somewhat of an expert on virtual meetings and in this post gives his take on the potential for technology to replace our ‘need’ if not our desire to fly:
When you took the pledge not to fly, did you take the Gold or the Silver? For those of you who don’t know, this [...]
Love, marriage and a horseless carriage
Monday, January 21st, 2008David Vaughan sent me this great shot of him taking a new bride and groom on the first leg of a low CO2 honeymoon.
And his reason for taking a pledge. . . .
“I work on the railways in this country, so I get a good deal in Europe. Also, I love cycling. So if I [...]
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 [...]
Reasons to be free from flying
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007I thought I would post some of the recent reasons that people have given for being free from flying. This is in part a response to an email earlier in the week from a good friend after he read an article in the Times, “Airlines to make billions from CO2 trade” by the Transport Correspondent, [...]
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, [...]
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