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Taxing air travel is unfair and makes it unaffordable, say airline companies who, er, don't drop their prices when the right wing government in #Sweden completely abolishes the passenger tax.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/flygskatten-tas-bort-da-blir-resor-fran-arlanda-billigare-eller
#NotFlying #FlyingLess #AirPassengerDuty #Flygskatt

#Introduction to a new series of threads about sustainable travelling *for academics*!

CCying everyone interested in #SustainableTravel #SustainableAcademia #Flyingless #SlowTravel #ClimateChange #CarbonFootprint #Environment and #ActOnClimate

Technical note: I’ll be using #GreenMSCA and #GreenAcadeMiles tags for all my posts related to this topic. If you are not much into my other stuff (#visual #anthropology #music), I suggest you follow these hashtags only.

Let’s jump into it!

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A picture from a train. There’s a laptop, various printed papers on the table, and a little cup, possibly with tea. Behind the train’s window is a blurred image of the landscape – green hills, blue sky and something resembling an old factory with a tall chimney.

Man, Sweden is a big country...
Finally approaching Copenhagen 25 hours after leaving Abisko..
My ride today was a little less productive workwise than I'd hoped but enlivened by this inspiring book, bought at #Abisko national park centre. Lots of adventures to be planned in Sweden over coming months and years.... #FlyingLess #CrossborderRail.

Front cover of a book embossed with gold title National Parks of Sweden showing a photograph of a view over Abisko national park with low canyon running through forest and on the horizon a wide u-shaped Valley cut into high mountain plateau

(But there are certainly other sinners around) #CrossborderRail #FlyingLess

On to train number 4, the sleeper...
Looking forward to an easy 14 hours and some good grub in the #DiningCar hopefully
#FlyingLess #CrossborderRail

A small 3 berth cabin with a wash hand basin in one corner and a red coat hanging on the wall.

A train corridor with a line of windows down the left side and a line of doors down the right.

On to train number 4, the sleeper... Looking forward to an easy 14 hours and some good grub in the #DiningCar hopefully #FlyingLess #CrossborderRail

A three berth Swedish sleeper cabin, blue bench on the lower level, a mid-bunk packed away and above a higher level bed
In the corner a small wash handbasin. A red coat hangs on a peg

A train corridor with a line of windows down the left side and a line of doors to sleeper cabins on the right

It's a wonderful day for a train ride, the Øresund is so blue, plenty of wind for the turbines. Crossing into Sweden seamlessly (not even a passport check today). #flyingLess #CrossborderRail

Blurry view from a train window of blue sea, and a bridge handrail. In the far distance wind turbines under a blue sky.

The first of 4 #CrossborderRail trains today - I'm off to Abisko in Northern Sweden for a week of field training for #iQ2300.. The first is the regional train from my local regional station to København H, where I have a 10 minute transfer to Malmø #FlyIngLess

View fromma train window of a blurry track and a large grey building with turrets at the side of the track in Copenhagen

View from a train platform down the tracks towards a sunny outside. There are arches overhead and people standing on the platform. The track gradually bends round to the right out of sight

The first of 4 #CrossborderRail trains today - I'm off to Abisko in Northern Sweden for a week of field training for #iQ2300..
The first is the regional train from my local regional station to København H, where I have a 10 minute transfer to Malmø #FlyIngLess

@Broadfork The one key issue that was missing from the programme is the highly skewed distribution of flying - small numbers fly enormously more than the majority. #flyingless

@sellathechemist Thanks, will catch up with this on iplayer. I don’t know what it will take for people to decide to fly less.

#FlightFree #BanPrivateJets #FlyingLess #ClimateAction

Rather good BBC1 programme on the impact of flying, cheap flights in the UK, and the illusion of SAFs, offsets and so on. Justin Rowlatt and Fran Scott present. Dieter Helm lays down the truth about offsets and markets. And a series of liars spin yarns. Some look remarkably unconvinced by their own bullshit. #flyingless https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001zq7n/what-they-really-mean-for-you-cheap-flights

Am Montag gibt es eine Abschlussveranstaltung eines großen #FlyingLess-Projektes, bei dem es um die Reduktion des Flugverkehrs im akademischen Bereich geht. Braucht Ihr nicht hinzufliegen, gibt's auch online:

https://www.ifeu.de/anmeldung-flyingless-abschlussveranstaltung

#stayGrounded #amBodenBleiben

. @bortzmeyer @sintzoff @ripencc plus … the ease/speed of flying vs #train travel is incomparable when the true cost is considered… here’s listed more material about (academic) conferences & #flyingless https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/local-hubs-for-events-diversity-sustainability-and-decentralisation/ :: https://easst.net/easst-review/41-2/fieldnotes-on-flyingless-conferencing/ & https://www.epfl.ch/campus/mobility/mobility-and-travel/academic-travel/epfl-travel-policy/ & https://hiltner.english.ucsb.edu/index.php/ncnc-guide/

“Additional examples of promoting more sustainable academic events”

📢 #FlyingLess lädt zur Abschlussveranstaltung ein!

Ergebnisse aus 3 Jahren Forschung zur Reduktion von Flugreisen im akademischen Bereich, Tools & Erkenntnisse gemeinsam mit wichtigen Stakeholdern

📅 25.11.2024, 09:00–15:00 in Heidelberg

👉 Anmeldung: https://www.ifeu.de/anmeldung-flyingless-abschlussveranstaltung

Visual figure which summarizes location and date of final event FlyingLess: 25.11.2024 9:00-15:00 in Heidelberg

To #Potsdam for last project meeting of meeting season (aka Autumn). 5 day combined @PolarRES #Polar #CORDEX at AWI. Will be great to catch up with old friends but first a 5 hour direct train to #Hamburg. *Cannot wait* for the #ehmarn #Femern belt to be done.
#FlyingLess #CrossborderRail

An old diesel locomotive approaches. Platform through curved arches lit by low autumn sun

@petergleick @Phil_Mountford In a slightly different vein, may I add this to your mix, from Private Eye today. #climatechange #flyingless

Cartoon: private jets migrating to another climate change conference

It’s taken me a bit longer to get into tooting so here is an #introduction long overdue.

New to mastodon, started on .social, but ended up here, new social media home! Quit twitter, miss the connections, hope to find new ones here.

I’m a researcher and designer, doing work in #sustainability, #HCI, #design, #lowcarbon everything, #flyingless, #artofhosting and many more things. #Undisciplinary. Very interested in #zines.

Will prob toot about work, #cycling, occasional bad ideas

#FlyingLess

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