Air Travel - One Ton / 1000 miles: Your biggest carbon sin may be air travel

Your biggest carbon sin may be air travel. One round-trip flight from New York to Europe or to San Francisco creates about 2 or 3 tons of carbon dioxide per person. The average American generates about 19 tons of carbon dioxide a year; the average European, 10. New York Times

Trees Come 'From Out Of The Air,' Says Nobel Laureate Richard ... NPR

Trees Come 'From Out Of The Air,' Says Nobel Laureate Richard ...

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It "eats" air, chomps down on airborne carbon dioxide, then uses sunshine to pull the carbon dioxide apart, gets rid of the oxygen, which "it spits back into the air ...