Green Business Travel

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The top-line hotels and restaurants we use around the world are the worst offenders in food-miles follies. I’ll never forget the Italian-born general manager of a London hotel who considered it a badge of honor that his in-house restaurant flew in its buffalo mozzarella from Campagna every day. I couldn’t bring myself to tell him that I was ducking out to a nearby pub for shepherd’s pie.

The Battle of the Bottles

If all of this seems like too much of an infringement on your business-travel lifestyle, consider a simple fix: Stop littering the planet with all those empty water bottles. Instead of buying an endless string of single-use bottles of water while traveling, buy a decent refillable container. (They are available for less than $10 from Nalgene and most sports or outdoor shops.) Or reuse a throwaway bottle by refilling it at an airport water fountain or at the bar in your airport club. The battle to preserve the environment may be won one water bottle at a time.

The Fine Print

Jumpjet, the controversial corporate-jet service that I mentioned several months ago (read: The Next Small Thing in the Skies) seems to be ready to launch again. The prices are somewhat higher and the perks have been trimmed, but the general concept remains compelling. I still can’t figure out how they can make money, though.

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