Aviation and Environment
George Hibberd – From an Easyjet’s pilot to a climate activist
After how many years of working as a pilot, you decided to quit this job and why? I started training as an airline pilot in January 2018 in New Zealand where my training school was based. In that time I started to become more aware of the climate and nature crisis...
Participation in a new book on Critical Animal Studies
About a month ago, the book "Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in solidarity and total liberation" was published by the Swiss publishing house Peter Lang. It is an anthology with 12 essays by activists from all over the world, all of whom are...
Todd Smith abandoned his dream job, being a pilot, for the sake of the environment. Here’s his story.
When I first found Todd on Instagram, I couldn't believe it. "Someone who is still paying off a debt because of the expensive studies to become a pilot, actually left his dreamjob and fights now against the aviation industry? It can't be!", it's what I said to...
Meet Maja Rosén, the founder of “Flight free world”
Back in 2017 I saw Ronnie Lee's (ALF's co founder) post on facebook, an article talking about the devastating effects of the avian industry and I felt very guilty. Until that moment I was flying around the globe without guilt because I believed that being vegan is the...