One Less Flight
A miskeeto byte from Robert Hoekman, Jr. Posted on January 29th, 2010
The backstory behind One Less Flight, the newest Miskeeto Byte.
Sheila Hoffman and her husband are environmentalists. They’ve been vegans since 1990, eat local foods, drive less than 6,000 miles per year using biodiesel fuel, and use reusable cloth bags for shopping.
In 2008, they planned to spend their vacation in New Zealand and Australia. They canceled it when they discovered the trip from their home of Seattle, WA, would quadruple their carbon footprint. Their friends were aghast. “The plane will fly anyway,” they said, and suggested the Hoffmans buy carbon offsets instead. But that’s not how the Hoffmans roll. They wanted to turn their small decision into something bigger by creating a campaign called “One Less Flight” with the aim of encouraging other people to do what they did. That’s when Sheila Hoffman contacted Miskeeto and told us their story. And that’s when we decided to help out by creating this site.
Make a small decision that’s part of something bigger.
Commit to taking one less flight.
