Know Your C02 Cost When You Book That Vacation Flight
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June 22nd, 2009 by Pollie |
It is finally here, Summer! Yesterday, was the Summer Solstice officially ushering the season. It has been slow in coming but the signs are there: sun, flowers, and people smiling. Of course, this means it is time to start booking your summer escapes. While looking for cheapest deals may be priority, don’t forget to what that car trip or airplane ride might be costing the earth.
Now you can search you flights and get the C02 footprint at the same time. Michael Mandiberg, a fellow at NYC’s Eyebeam, has a FireFox plugin called The Real Cost. When you install it and search airline and car travel sites, it will give you the Co2 cost as part of the search results.
For discount travel sites like Orbitz, Hotwired, or Travelocity it shows up during the booking process. Since you have already mentally committed to a flight it is a little more clunky for these sites.
For the Road Trips, Michael has the site: How Much Does it Cost. http://howmuchitcosts.us/. You input where you purchase you gas and your car’s make and model. Then you put in your origin and destination. Like any direction site (it is built on Google Maps) it gives you directions but also a chart of how much gas you will need and your Co2 output.
These are great tools to at least make me aware of what my fun in the sun costs the environment. I look forward to seeing these tools become more integrated with existing travel staples and widely used. Having this additional environmental information may help change the what are the priorities in decision making when choosing travel transportation. After all, the most powerful voting tool the public has is where we spend our dollars.
Resources
Check you Car trip: http://howmuchitcosts.us/
Get the plugin: http://therealcosts.com
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