Not wanting to blind you with science, but according to the Department of Transport, road transport made up one fifth of the Britain's total carbon emissions -- and as for planes, emissions produced by air travel in UK doubled between 1990 and 2000 and we don't even want to know where they're at now.
For journeys close to home, you could think about taking a bus instead. A full double-decker uses four times less energy per passenger than the same trip in a full car. As for longer journeys, a large family car carrying two passengers will produce more than double the carbon emissions that a train over 100 miles and over four times that of a coach. And, if you're thinking of going further a field, a return trip to Paris on the Eurostar creates a carbon footprint that's a whopping 10 times smaller than taking the plane.
Try out our 'Do it in Public' public transport journey planner, where you can plan an entire door-to-door journey to anywhere in the UK. It will also tell you just how much carbon you'll be saving in the process.
