[143] CAN A TRAVEL EDITOR TRAVEL FLIGHT-FREE? WITH HELEN COFFEY

A Sustainable Life with Jen Gale

Can a travel editor travel flight free?
Can they still do their job without setting foot on an aeroplane?
And why would they want to?

Listen in to this chat with Helen Coffey, travel editor for the Independent newspaper, and author of Zero Altitude to find out the answers!

We chat about:

• Helen's 'ecopiphany' - what was the point for her where she started to worry about the impact of the flights she was taking for her job, and think about whether there might be another way?
• The carbon impact of flying and why that matters for the planet
• The flight free journeys that Helen has embarked on - how she "learned to fly less and travel more" (this is the tagline of Helen's book!)
• LOADS of top tips for flight-free travel, both within the UK and far beyond
• Whether Helen managed to still do her job as travel editor for a major national newspaper, and her plans for travel moving forwards

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LISTEN...

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CHECK OUT...

• Helen on Twitter
• Zero Altitude
  - On World of Books
  - On Hive
  - On Bookshop
• The Man in Seat 61
• Flight Free UK
• The JUMP - Holiday Local
• [042] - Flight Free 2020
• [139] - European Rail Adventures with Georgina Wilson Powell
  
• Talking Climate Carbon Literacy course
• The Sustainable(ish) FB group

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DO...

• See if you can get hold of a copy of Zero Altitude! Ask your library if they have it, or will order it in for you
• If you regularly fly, could you challenge yourself to halve the number of flights you take per year, or to try the next journey flught free?
• Take the Flight Free pledge and have a go at a year without flying!
• Share this episode with friends and family and start a gentle conversation about trying to fly less

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Do you fly?
Do you think you could have a go at a Flight Free holiday?
Let me know in the comments!

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