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Taking full advantage of sustainable aviation fuel will be necessary for the carbon free travel future. In this article we take look at how far we've come and what's in store.

A team of researchers from California State University, Monterey Bay; Texas A&M; and San Francisco State University surveyed travelers about their knowledge and thoughts about climate and travel, exploring barriers and opportunities to supporting climate when traveling. 

Kathleen Rellihan, formerly Newsweek’s Travel Editor, is joining season 2 of the Airrows on Air podcast as guest host. Learn more about upcoming Season 2: Air, Water, Light & Heart: The Other Elements of Climate Action in this article.

Online travel platform kimkim joined Tomorrow’s Air this month, adding a contribution for Tomorrow’s Air onto every traveler booking.

The latest global climate assessment report published by the U.N.-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2014 came out on February 28, 2022. In this blog, four suggestions for how the concerned global travel community take action on information shared in this report.

Tristan Copley-Smith and Duncan McDowall are the two award-winning filmmakers preparing to travel the world learning the stories of maverick entrepreneurs, visionaries and tech-savvy activists transforming climate change into a new technology frontier. In this post, learn about three carbon catchers already slated for production.

Glenn Jampol, a pioneer of responsible and regenerative tourism in Costa Rica recently teamed up with Tomorrow’s Air co-founder Christina Beckmann to write this down-to-earth climate action guide for small businesses in travel.

Learn how you can participate in an expedition The Explorer's Passage leads with polar explorer Robert Swan, who launched this Expedition to inspire people to take climate change action in their home countries. The Explorer’s Passage follows industry standard covid safety measures with required vaccination, social distancing, and testing before and during the Expedition. The team offsets 1.25x the carbon emissions for every trip through participation in renewable energy and forestry projects and promotes carbon removal with permanent storage through Tomorrow’s Air. 

Cleaning up carbon dioxide - getting it out of the air - is only half the battle, and not even the hardest part. Once it’s out of the air, where can we put it so that it won’t keep trapping heat in our atmosphere and destabilizing our climate? Carbon dioxide gets stored in plants, soil, the ocean, and can be mineralized in rocks. Getting the full picture on carbon dioxide storage reinforces why a combination of solutions are necessary to restore our climate.

The process of defining an impact measurement system for Tomorrow’s Air helped our team grapple with how to measure the tons carbon dioxide our collective cleans up and the impact of the education we provide to travelers and travel companies, supporting a much-needed transformation in travel. View a short video with Pumla Maswanganyi and Thaksheel Alleck who helped guide our process and read this summary with the details.

Technical terms fly fast and furious when people start talking about climate. The concepts aren't actually all that mysterious, once we define the terms. Read this post for a simple breakdown of two popular terms these days.

As travelers we are frequently encouraged to support climate action projects; this handy list breaks down all the ways carbon dioxide is removed from the air. Learn this list of eight and recognize that we’ll need all of them working together to help restore our climate. 

In Africa, wildlife tourism makes up 36 percent of the tourism economy, funding organizations like the OL Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya which is home to the last northern white rhinos. Learn more about how travel's benefits can continue when we all make climate conscious travel decisions.

Tourism Cares is a non-profit organization dedicated to the long-term survival of the travel + tourism industry. They recently invited Tomorrow’s Air to contribute a guest post on their blog inviting companies in their community to learn more about our mission. If you're working in a travel company and curious about Tomorrow's Air this post offers key facts along and a brief discussion of travel's opportunity to lead.

Learn the behind the scenes story of a recent photo shoot in Bali, where the topics of women's empowerment and climate take center stage.

While some might call for an end to flight, recognize that even this drastic action would not get us out of our current predicament without the help of carbon removal. In this article learn practical tips for how to book your next climate conscious flight.

In the tourism context regenerative travel is understood to mean leaving a place better than you found it. In this short video, Andrew McEvoy, Head of the Tourism Sector at NEOM, shares how this new destination is uniquely localizing the concept of regenerative travel.

Climate expert and advisor Eli Mitchell-Larson (due to technical difficulties appearing as Andrew McEvoy) of Oxford University clarifies different types of carbon removal. As helpful for travelers as it is for companies and destinations sorting out their climate strategies, Eli steps us through a single basic chart to help us understand the differences and connection points between carbon removal technologies and natural systems that absorb carbon dioxide.

In July 2021 we invited members of our community to complete a short survey to help us get to know each other better. Many of you responded; and we thought you might enjoy seeing the results as much as we have.

Recently one of our followers asked, “How does Tomorrow’s Air and Climeworks use the money we contribute?”

When asked whether the heat trapping carbon dioxide molecules in our atmosphere could be split apart into harmless carbon and oxygen, Eli Mitchell-Larson of Oxford University took the opportunity to relate carbon removal to the natural process of photosynthesis in plants. Listen for a refresher on photosynthesis and to learn why carbon removal is needed to support natural systems.

Two sustainable travel experts share practical tips for traveling "climate clever" in this engaging presentation.

Especially relevant for travel companies and tourism destinations, Eli Mitchell-Larson of Oxford University elaborates on the "portfolio approach" for climate action, emphasizing carbon removal alongside emissions reductions.

Climate expert Eli Mitchell-Larson from Oxford University and Andrew McEvoy from new tourism destination NEOM discuss the reality of air travel’s contribution to carbon emissions and how to balance forms of transportation when we travel.

On September 13, 2021 we learned that our collective won in the Visionary category of Newsweek’s 2021 Future of Travel Awards!

Thanks to the expertise of Pumla Maswanganyi and Thaksheel Nirvaan Alleck we’ve been busy creating a Foundational Impact Strategy (FIS) that will quantify, track, and evaluate the Tomorrow’s Air collective’s impact on the environment, consumers and other stakeholders. 

Newsweek's Future of Travel Awards is celebrating companies creating a travel industry for a brighter and more resilient future and Tomorrow’s Air is among them, a finalist in the Visionary category!

At a recent conference gathering together accommodations providers from around the world - the Eco Hotel Restart Summit - Tomorrow’s Air co-founder Christina Beckmann shared a short background on Tomorrow’s Air and its mission, and how the carbon removal technology its members support works.

For The Travel Yogi, it was a happy coincidence that one of the company’s most beloved itineraries, its yoga retreat in Iceland, is the perfect way to reinforce their specific intention around environmental wellness and carbon dioxide removal.

Imagine if you could create a completely natural carbon pump, storing and sinking carbon and increasing natural carbon absorption from the oceans. Seems like the future? It’s already here, and if you’re lucky you can see one swimming around one off your nearest coast.

With trillions of tons of legacy carbon dioxide emissions to deal with, we have to remove carbon dioxide fast and also find ways to store it once we have pulled it out of the air. Here’s a helpful summary of common carbon offsetting projects along with information about the carbon dioxide storage that each can offer.

Tomorrow's Air co-founder Christina Beckmann reflects on Chile's Route of Parks and how climate conscious travel businesses are engaging with carbon removal to support the area.

Chris Neidl of the Open Air Collective has recently interviewed Dr. Julio Friedmann, one of the most widely known and authoritative experts in the U.S. on carbon removal, carbon dioxide conversion and use, and carbon capture and storage. Chris and Dr. Friedmann discuss the basics of carbon removal via direct air capture and why it is necessary along with various pathways and challenges to scale. 

You’ve probably encountered carbon offsetting when you book a flight or a tour - as part of the checkout process maybe you elected to “offset your trip” for a small additional fee which then goes to support a project that helps absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, such as a forest.

Cleaning up carbon dioxide stored in the atmosphere is vital; alongside this we also must evolve many aspects of how travel happens today. Sustainable aviation fuel is one of these areas of evolution. Sustainable aviation fuel is produced from resources such as waste oils from a biological origin or non-fossil carbon dioxide. So called ‘feedstocks’ for sustainable aviation fuel range from cooking oil, plant oils, municipal waste, waste gases, and agricultural residues.

Too much carbon dioxide is in the air no matter where you are running, swimming, hiking, or enjoying a sunset, and regardless of where it was originally emitted. Good news: this means it can also be cleaned up from anyplace on earth and also benefit us all, regardless of where we live and travel.

Two pioneers from the Tomorrow’s Air collective - Jorge Perez, founder of Tierra del Volcan in Ecuador, and Andres Molestina, a photographer creating a historic record of the seven tropical glaciers remaining in Ecuador - recently shared how they’re using their work in travel and the arts to help spread the word on carbon removal.

Modern history is rife with examples of technologies that started off expensive and inefficient and improved dramatically over time, delivering benefits we now can’t imagine living without. In this post we reflect on this evolution in computers as an example of how carbon removal technologies can also progress as we provide support for their maturation.

While carbon removal is actually nothing new (plants, the ocean, soils have been absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it throughout time), the emergence of carbon removal technologies as a tool to help restore our climate has put the topic of carbon removal - along with a flood of related terms - in the news with greater frequency these days. Terms like “carbon capture and sequestration” and “carbon removal” and “direct air capture” can be confusing. Here are a few definitions to help.