Green Thursday takes a look to Europe today, in honor of Bastille Days in Milwaukee. Let's focus in on the high speed train, "Eurostar."
Eurostar is a train service in Western Europe primarily connecting London and Kent in the United Kingdom, with Paris and Lille in France, and Brussels in Belgium. Trains cross under the English Channel through the Channel Tunnel.
The service is operated by a fleet of specially designed eighteen-carriage trains which travel at up to 186 mph on a network of high-speed railway lines.
Here's the green part of Eurostar. They believe that global warming is real and that travelling is a contributing factor in climate change. But they also know that staying at home isn’t an appealing solution and that travel by Eurostar helps to make sure that you have a much smaller impact on the planet than flying to our destinations.
How much smaller? Their Tread Lightly initiative plans to reduce our impact on the environment and further increase their energy efficiency. They made a commitment to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 25% per traveller journey by 2012 and since 14 November 2007, all Eurostar journeys are now carbon neutral at no extra cost to travellers.
Eurostar releases 10 times less CO2 than flying.
Meanwhile, here in our part of the world, we can't agree on global warming, not to mention light rail or other mass transit.
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