Hello everyone!
For those of you who have been keeping up with Meghan’s posts about environmental sustainability and its importance to the airline industry, I’m sad to say that Meghan has gone back to school and is no longer interning at Delta. On the flip side, I am now working as a co-op here in the Environmental Services department at Delta, and I’ve been given the privilege of keeping up with her blogs. My name is Kelly Stiegel, and I’m a 2nd year Earth and Atmospheric Science major at Georgia Tech. I wouldn’t call myself a true tree-hugger, but I do believe that we as individuals can do our part in order to keep our planet healthy for our kids and grandkids. I drive a hybrid SUV and recycle everything that I can, and I try to encourage others to do the same.
Even though I just started my work here at Delta, I’m already amazed at how much we’re doing in order to mitigate our impact on the environment. From employee and in-flight recycling programs to offering carbon offsets to our customers, Delta has taken leaps and bounds in the past few years towards becoming as environmentally friendly as possible.
I’ll be keeping up with Meghan’s blogs, and I’d definitely love to get as much feedback as I can. An integral part of becoming sustainable is hearing ideas from our customers and others in order provide new ways of protecting the environment. Delta has already taken a huge step in terms of sustainability, but we need your help to find the next way to reduce our footprint!
Looking forward to the next post!
Kelly
Environmental Co-op
September 18th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
GO TECH.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Instead of selling Carbon Offset, why don’t you increase my ticket price 10 bucks and buy the tree for every ticket you sell.
September 21st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Delta, lean green, go green!
As a regular flier, I am very happy to know that Delta as a corporation takes interest in the environment. I do have one suggestion. I believe that I see HWGeek’s point about the unnecessary waste of paper.
With the advent of your new Internet service, which I have no doubt will be popular, why not cut out that weighty, ad-heavy, paper gobbling in-flight magazine? I rarely see anyone looking at it and it is a total waste of paper, not to mention fuel. And it serves no one but the advertisers and the publishing company who reap the revenue.
If a magazine weighs a half to three-quarters of a pound, and that is multiplied by the number of seats and flights, the cost in fuel over a day, let alone a year, to fly them is enormous. Delta could make a very positive environmentally friendly statement by being the first airline to say they were removing that waste of paper from the seat pockets.