Evolution of the carbon footprint of my academic travels since I started my PhD (in Orange) - in log scale. Blue dots are the number of peer-reviewed publications

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1. Dr. Alexandre Santerne 🌍 (alexsanterne@astrodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 00:17:28 JST Dr. Alexandre Santerne 🌍

   Five years of no flying
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   5 years ago, I realised that my #academic travels were emitting way too much #greenhouse #gas #GHG (up to 20 t #CO2 / yr) and hence that my #professional activity was not #sustainable. I thus decided to completely ban air #travel (#plane) and travel mainly by #train within #Europe.

   5 years later (i.e. now), my professional travels' #carbonfootprint dropped by **a factor 50**, without impacting my #publication records (compared to 2017 - 2019).

   I wrote a post for the #blog of @a4e about my experience. Check it out: https://astronomersforplanet.earth/five-years-of-no-flying/

   cc @labos1point5 @LAM_Marseille @CNRS_INSU @academicchatter @astrophysics @StayGrounded_net

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