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Eco-travel talk: have your say

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By choosing carefully you can limit your effects on the environment.

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(CNN) -- Travel always provides a lot of experiences, but it can also produce a lot of carbon emissions as well.

By making choices about the way you travel, whether it involves buying an economy air ticket rather than one in business class or taking public transport instead of taxis, you too can have a positive effect on the environment.

We want to hear about the choices you have made with respect to travel and the environment.

What do you think of a carbon emissions tax when you fly? Have your say with CNN.

If you cannot see your comments on this page, please check here for our your say archives.

We liked the recent program about environmental business travel. What can sustainable hotels and restaurants do? Stop serving beef -- some of which is reared on land that is cleared of rainforests -- and serve more chicken, fish and soy as a protein source. Chicken, and especially, soy do not add millions of tonnes of methane gas each year to our atmosphere. Another non-sustainable practice is shrimp farming, which is harvested in non-sustainable ways in the topics. Henry Kantrowitz, Jaco Beach, Costa Rica

Thank you for featuring carbon trading and carbon footprints associated with travel. We teach a college class on Science and Society, where discussions include the Kyoto Protocol and carbon trading. Your feature on Business Traveller would be perfect for discussion in our class. It is a good addition to our discussions, because many of our students have lifestyles where they can relate to the examples that you cite. Nina Rojas, Quezon City, Philippines

I saw your interesting documentary last night. I am in Japan on a training course to do with environmental and social considerations. I am an environment officer for the Department of Environment in Fiji. I was stunned by the results of your experiment. I think that many people do not realize how much carbon dioxide they contribute to the environment. I congratulate you on your effort to try and portray not only to business class travelers, but to everyone, how we are unknowingly contributing towards the degradation of our own environment. Priya Nair, Fiji

A very interesting program about how you used all that carbon during your trip. Shame you did not point out how significant the emissions are from U.S. industries every year, and the failure of the U.S. to sign the Kyoto Protocol. If you can get people who really cause the problem to change their stance then you would have really achieved something. Ray Howarth, Madison, Alabama

Enjoyed your program about Vancouver and being carbon neutral when you travel. I would like to point out the relevance of organic farming in this regard. Organic foods are produced with considerably less energy input as a result of substantially less use of inputs, especially nitrogen fertilizers. Organic farming does not destroy the organic matter in the soil. However, bad farming practices have eroded organic matter and led to substantial carbon emissions.

While experts are arguing on the exact emission levels it is clear that it is substantial. The good news is that by using organic farming practices soil organic matter can be restored and thereby substantial quantities of carbon can be sequestered in the soil. Compared to carbon fixation by trees, fixation in soil by organic matter is more stable as soil organic matter has a longer turnover period. Gunnar Rundgren, Torfolk, Höje, Sweden

I work for the global carbon project and was very interested in the program presented by Richard Quest -- "Traveling with a Cleaner Planet in Mind." Melanie Hartman, Tsukuba, Japan

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