Workshop: Academic Aero Mobility in a Post-Pandemic Future, March 22 2022
Online workshop organized by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Katz-Rosene online resource guide on Flying Less in Academia
This online resource guide is regularly updated with new material
Can virtual events achieve co-benefits for climate, participation, and satisfaction? Comparative evidence from five international Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week conferences
Joe Yates, MSc, Prof Suneetha Kadiyala, PhD, Yuemeng Li, IBDP, Sylvia Levy, BSc, Abel Endashaw, MSc, Hallie Perlick, MPH, Prof Parke Wilde, PhD, The Lancet: Planetary Health, 2022
When a major international annual conference series on agriculture, nutrition, and health had to move online in 2020 due to the pandemic, there was partial loss of interpersonal connections at social events, but aviation emissions plummeted and participation increased.
#flyingless Blog and Website
Filled with resources and news focused on reducing academia’s carbon footprint
Choosing Not to Fly Need Not Ground Your Career
Interview with Lenore Fahrig of Carleton University
Can we learn to embrace a future of less flying?
Rob Hopkins, November 24, 2016
Air travel and climate change
The David Suzuki Foundation
How to Host a Sustainable, Carbon Neutral Conference or other Event
The David Suzuki Foundation
Sustainability: A Greener Culture
Nature, June 21, 2017
Creative minds are shrinking research’s big carbon footprint
The Paris Agreement & the Fight Against Climate Change: An interview with Kevin Anderson
FlyingLess, February 29, 2016
“I don’t have a no-fly policy, but rather a fly-less one. It’s just that I’ve been able to avoid flying for many years because what I do is not sufficiently important to justify the emissions which, in my view, is the case for almost all academics. If we’re going to fly, it should be for truly extraordinary and important reasons.”
On the Travel Emissions of Sustainability Science Research
Timothy Waring, Mario Teisl, Eva Manandhar & Mark Anderson
Sustainability, 2014
No Fly Zone: Can Academics Do More from Home?
SSPP Blog
National Geographic runs article by airline “points expert,” saying air travel is getting “greener”
Flying Less: Reducing Academia’s Carbon Footprint