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Are your travel habits forcing you to fly the unfriendly skies? Flying on a jet airplane isn’t exactly the best way to reduce your carbon footprint. A roundtrip flight from New York to Los Angeles creates between 2 and 3 tons of CO2 per passenger. Unfortunately, unless you have two weeks to drive across country each way in your Tesla Roadster, your travel is going to put a strain on Mother Nature. Taking a plane is an occasionally necessary evil in our otherwise green-conscious lives. Still, there are ways you can fly smarter. Check out these suggestions for reducing your travel-related carbon impact from LiveEarth.org:
