Tufts University #flyingless video and article. The Tufts University media site Tufts Now has given our #flyingless initiative some energetic coverage, including a video, feature article, interactive map, and chart comparing transportation modes. Consider sharing the link above with your own social media networks. Or you may forward it by email within your own university to ask, “could our university promote the climate action efforts of our own faculty in similar fashion?”

Gianluca takes a stand. Our friend and long-time #flyingless supporter, Prof. Gianluca Grimalda is returning home by ship, train, and bus to Germany from his anthropology field research site in the Solomon Islands, at the cost of his faculty position at the Kiel Institute, which is firing him for being late returning to the office this fall. His act of principle received extensive media coverage in the Guardian, New York Times, CNN, and many other outlets. Don’t ask whether we each can do likewise (that would be a lot to ask). But we can each reflect on Gianluca’s courage as a mark of what is possible, as we take stock of what perhaps more modest collective action is possible within our own university communities.

New Years’ Eve Eve Party (Dec 30). We usually host an online social event with toasts and reflections on #flyingless themes each December 30, at 4pm eastern (9pm UK, 10pm CET). Please hold the date. If you are tempted to host and log in from a local party in your own community at that time, please contact us by email. We’d love to coordinate.