I fly on usually 10 times a year between vacations and visiting family and my Significant other. I never really stopped to think about the damage I was potentially doing to the environment. Is there another way to visit and stay close to the ones you live without flying and burning so much jet fuel? I would driving wouldn’t be much better because of all the gasoline it would take to travel across the country 10 times? What other options do we have in making family a priority and keeping mind distance relationships.

Traveling by train might be the better option (if the travel is less than 5h). For same distance a train journey emits on average nearly 40 times less CO2 than a plane journey. Buses are another option too as they also cut down by half the emissions a plane does. Otherwise i fear you might still need to take planes, but if it's for your family...

Riding on a train sounds like a better decisions. I went on a plane that took 3 stops, when traveling to and back, this made a massive change on my footprint results. I don't go to far places often, everything around us is like 5 minutes away from my house. So traveling on a airplane was a big deal. The burning fuel on the plane releases a lot of carbon dioxide/ energy. I found an interesting fact that an average commercial aircraft would fly 3000 hrs per year. (If you look it up, a lot of websites agree on 3000 hrs). Imagine all the carbon dioxide entering in Earth's atmosphere.

I think train would be better for short trips, but what if youneed to visit a country that is across the ocean? For example, a trip from Canada to France. How could we not pollute, but visit another country at the same time?