HOW TO FLY MORE SUSTAINABLY

There’s no way around it: Flying is no friend to mother earth. (A quick jaunt from NYC to L.A. emits about 20 percent of the greenhouse gases that come from your car in a whole year.) To reduce your carbon footprint while up in the air, find an airline that... CUTS BACK ON WASTE Alaska Airlines, for example, eliminated single-use plastic straws and citrus picks last year (after using an estimated 22 million in 2017). DONATES UNUSED ITEMS United Airlines creates hygiene kits for people in need with leftovers from its eco-friendly Cowshed Spa business-class amenities. HAS A CARBON-OFFSET PROGRAM Or, if you don’t want to pay even more to fly (we get it), help offset all those kilometres by donating to an independent org like Tree Canada.