one.point.zero - Colin O'Brien's weblog

We fly anywhere at the slightest opportunity, 10 times and upwards a year. This needs to be addressed with the greatest urgency

Mark Ellingham, founder of Rough Guides

The journey becomes part of the holiday as Guardian journalists travel to Thailand, Egypt and Ibiza while avoiding the more damaging option of air travel.

A student moving to the UK from the US decided to give up flying and get to his destination without planes or cars. His weblog describes how he did it. I admit I’ve been eyeing a transatlantic journey on a cargo ship for a while now although I need to figure out the damage that does.