Skipping One Cross-Country Flight = Going Vegetarian for a Year

The list of things you can do to reduce your negative impact on nature is very long (that's what Planet Green and TreeHugger are all about), but certain things are easier to do than others and can have just as big an impact as some of the harder things.

One good example of this is the comparison between one cross-country flight and going vegetarian or vegan for a year. It might seem like it would be harder (at least for someone who's not already veggie) to become a vegetarian or vegan than it would be to skip that flight, yet if we look at the numbers (from a purely CO2 emission point-of-view, but remember that this is only one aspect), both are pretty similar.