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We are a collective of aviation, climate, and communications experts who volunteer our time and our skills in the belief that we can contribute towards positive change. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bum.prints
What are your main considerations before booking a flight? 💰⏰💺
Do you ever look at the emissions data? ☁︎☁︎✈️
Larry & Lisa, the #Bumprints Binge Flyers, usually just book the cheapest tickets, but today something else has grabbed Lisa's attention...
#FlyBetter #BookBetter #PassengerPower
"Why does talking about my flight count feel so deeply personal? Maybe because it forces me to confront not just what I do, but who I choose to be... When I took an inventory of my flights taken in 2025, I felt my stomach tighten."
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Yeyan Shi, one of our brave and brilliant volunteers, took an inventory of her flying activity in 2025. She found the process extremely conflicting and then took the time to share her reflections with us all. 💚🌟
#HowBigIsYourBumprint #MyFlightCount2025 #FlyBetter
ya, if you're smart enough to understand it.
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It's time to start connecting the dots...
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Flying creates around 2,500,000 tonnes of carbon emissions every single day. That's equivalent to about 625,000 elephants worth of emissions.
There are only 450,000 elephants left in the world today.
France issues red flood alerts after ‘exceptional’ rainfall
Climate experts "have been warning us for a long time that events like this will happen more often - in fact, tomorrow has arrived”, says minister
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Do you want to learn how to fly better in the climate crisis?
If so, subscribe to the Bumprints monthly newsletter:
The Bottom Line! (do you see what we did there 😉)
#PassengerPower #FlyBetter #PlaneTalking #TheBottomLine #Newsletter
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Look at how many fewer aircraft would be in our skies if we flew as mindfully as Hana rather than as carelessly as Tom.
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If you fly to watch your favourite teams or events, do you ever consider the environmental price tag?
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What's the real cost of your sporting passion?
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If owning a pet already has a significant impact on the planet, what about flying your pet around the world on a private jet service designed for dogs?
Don't get us wrong, we love animals here at Bumprints, but are deeply worried about the animals being impacted by the climate crisis!
Yes, of course, this was greenwashing, and the judge agreed.
🌟 To the airline’s credit, its messaging is much more honest these days. 🌟 The first sentence on their sustainability page now clearly states, ‘Air travel is currently not sustainable.’
#AirlineGreenwashing #PlaneTalking #FlyBetter
The future of the Winter Olympics is uncertain in our warming climate. If audience travel is 44% of the emissions, could the tickets go to local spectators, and maybe the rest of us just watch them on TV?
#ProtectOurWinters #PlaneTalking #WinterOlympics2026 #ClimateChange #TravelResponsibly
New research shows we could power the entire planet for a year if we put solar panels on the land currently used for biofuel. But if we used all that biofuel for aviation - we'd only fuel about 1/3 of flights. Biofuel isn't the fix. Reducing flying & consumption is.
04.02.2026 10:01 — 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Lisa, half of our Binge Flying couple, loves to travel, but she has absolutely no concept of her 'carbon budget'.
How many trees would you need to plant to offset your flights from last year?
🌳 A baby sapling will absorb 6 kg of CO2 in its first year, growing to 22 kg per year when it matures.
Picture shows an adventurer looking out across a landscape with hands in the air. Text says, night of flight-free adventure, a night of inspirational storytelling featuring 12 epic journeys of flight-free travel, including Australia-UK no flights, bike and train to every country in Europe, Beijing and back by train, walking the length of Britain, and many more.
Big adventures don't mean big carbon. The Night of Adventure will show what's possible when you don't fly!
This is our BIG fundraiser to support Flight Free UK while giving maximum travel inspiration 🤩
🗓️ 19th March
⏰ 7pm
📍 London or online
Book now: www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
Watch Captain Katie's eye-opening discussion at Minneapolis Climate Week, and learn about:
✈️ The real climate cost of air travel.
📈 Why aviation emissions are still rapidly rising.
💪 Why Passenger Power is an overlooked solution.
#PassengerPower #MinneapolisClimateWeek
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🔈 Let’s debunk common climate myths!
Myth #1 : “A couple of degrees of warming is not that big of a deal.”
Fact: Actually, small temperature rises can throw the world’s delicate ecosystems into disarray, with dire implications for humans and other living things.
More: www.unep.org/topics/clima...
Don't get me started about airline loyalty programmes 🤯. Let's reward the biggest polluters by letting them pollute more, for free! But look here, this is a great way to put those polluter points to good use! 👏
03.02.2026 05:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax rules
- Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation could also force ultra-rich to pay global wealth tax
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Is '100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel' 100% sustainable? Don't be silly, the emissions coming out of the engines are the same as with traditional fossil-based jet fuel? Learn more about 'SAF' and why even its name is greenwashing at Bumprints.org
#PlaneTalking #AirlineGreenwashing #FlyBetter
"Climate change has always been something I worried about but for some reason I didn't make the connection to flying. Now that I know how bad it really is I've decided to take the challenge so I can positively impact the climate in a way that aligns with my values." ~ Chantelle
29.01.2026 10:01 — 👍 21 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Bumprints is honoured to be participating in Minneapolis Climate Week. Join us on Feb 1st for this free, online event.
Sign up and check out the full calendar of events here: luma.com/mpls-cw
#FlyBetter #PlaneTalking #PassengerPower
On 1st August last year, 270,000 people passed through Heathrow, it's busiest day ever. And yet the government is still insisting on expanding. If there was ever proof that WE have to take matters into our own hands if we want things to change - this is it.
27.01.2026 10:01 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
One of our followers recently asked Bumprints for advice on which flight booking sites were accurate and trustworthy when searching for the lowest-carbon flights. This is what we recommended...
If you have questions, we have answers!
Bumprints.org
#AskUsAnything #PlaneTalking #FlightBooking
Two things to learn from this.
1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors.
2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...