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Steven Frischling
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Steven Frischling, aka: Fish, is globe hopping professional photographer, airline emerging media consultant working with large global airlines and founder of The Travel Strategist. Fish has racked up more than 1,000,000 miles since he started to track his mileage in 2005.

Fish's travel tends to be less than leisurely, including flying from New York to Basrah, Iraq, for six hours; Hong Kong for eight hours, Kuwait City for two hours and traveling around the world in 3.5 days to shoot a series of photo assignments in 4 cities and 4 countries on 3 separate continents.

Fish grew up at the end of New York's JFK International Airport's Runway 4R/22L, which probably explains his enjoyment of watching planes, fly overhead. When not shooting photos or traveling Fish designs camera bags, hones is expertise on airline security and spends his time at home cheering for the Red Sox with his 3 kids 102 yards from the ocean.

Purchase Carbon Offsets & Celebrate Earth Day!!

04.22.2008 | Author: flyingfish | Posted in Resources

Web: www.fishfotoworldwide.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com

22/04/2008 – Purchase Carbon Offsets & Celebrate Earth Day!!

It’s Earth Day, the day we remember Mother Earth and everything she does for us! Travel can have a significant footprint on the environment. You can offset your personal travel footprint by purchasing a carbon offset!

What exactly is a carbon offset? Well a carbon offset is a credit you can purchase to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. While there are different types of carbon offsets they are all based on a metric-tonne of the carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e) of what you are adding to the environment.

Generally for travel the carbon offset you purchase is a tree, or foliage, that will replace the oxygen into the ecosystem we all live in on planet Earth. These carbon offset projects generally are involved in the reforestation and soil management efforts. We really can’t have to many trees being planted can we?

For travelers who want to reduce their carbon footprint, I suggest visiting Sustainable Travel International (www.sustainabletravelinternational.org). This site has a lot of good info and resources for those interested in moving towards a more “carbon neutral” lifestyle while on the road.

You can also check your carbon footprint for your travels and directly purchase your carbon offsets from Sustainable Travel International at:
www.sustainabletravelinternational.org/documents/op_carboncalcs.html

STI’s pledge is that 80% of your carbon offset purchase is allocated to the projects that STI offers to reduce carbon emissions! This is considerably better than many other carbon offset providers I have looked into.

Come on…….you know you want to help save the planet!

Happy Flying!

One Response

  1. Charles DiPrima April 25th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    Glad to see you posting about this. Unfortunately airline travel is horribly inefficient with regards to environmental impact. I like the STI site and how you can calculate the amount of carbon offsets you should purchase based upon your driving habits, flying, home usage, etc. Cool.

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