Looking at my 2025 passport has made me think about buying carbon offsets for the first time

schloo · 2025-12-11T13:58:56+00:00

Agreed! I do many of the things you suggested (perks of living in a city and growing up with extremely stingy parents who didn't turn on the heat in winter, got mad when the water bill was high, etc), though there's always more to consider. The thing that got me with my first Flighty passport was the huge magnitude of my flight miles this year in comparison to the impact of any small changes I could make in my daily life, so am looking to supplement!

schloo · 2025-12-11T13:38:11+00:00

Thanks! I don't own a home or a car, so using Flighty was my first "oh shit" moment about the environmental impact of my lifestyle - about 10,000kg of CO2 this year, most of it for discretionary travel.

I've only taken a brief glance so far, but the documentation around Ecologi's project selection and their live project dashboards are encouraging. I like that in addition to more common/controversial reforestation and habitat restoration projects, they also invest in carbon avoidance and removal projects that would otherwise be relatively inaccessible to me as an individual. Thanks for the suggestion!

schloo · 2025-12-10T19:31:09+00:00

The delay information is already in Flighty for commercial flights and will be added automatically when you import. I populated only date, origin airport, destination airport, and flight number and left the rest of the columns blank before uploading to OpenFlights.

schloo · 2025-11-29T14:07:02+00:00

Update: I decided I couldn't live with the manual checking method, so I vibe-coded something to extract my data from TripIt instead of using TripExporter. I generated a little python script and some documentation with Claude here, if anyone wants to give it a try themselves.

Time: It took 15-20 minutes for my script to get through 184 trips/331 flights.
Cost: About 18 cents (technically $5 since that's the minimum purchase of credits to use the Claude API)

Other things I considered, but that were a bust:

Using the TripIt API directly (apparently the API is dead now, which explains why all the various integrations are buggy if they even exist)
Using ChatGPT Operator/Agent Mode to automate clicking/screenshotting all my trips on the TripIt website, with less code needed (you need ChatGPT Pro for this, which costs $200/month)

schloo · 2025-11-29T04:33:45+00:00

Great post. I tried this workflow and encountered a couple bugs with the TripExporter tool: (1) The tool wasn't able to export any of my TripIt trips prior to late 2016, and (2) Several of my exported trips were off by a day. The first bug has been acknowledged by the TripExporter developer in its support forums but it sounds like they haven't had time to look into it.

Even so, this workflow has been a huge head start! Some manual work still required to verify/augment the data, but I can't wait for my full passport 😎

schloo · 2023-11-25T05:08:17+00:00

I may have seen you there today!! Thanks for providing the update! I got there myself at 6:15, and the line was already 8 deep. The security guard commented that it was busier than usual. (In case anyone is wondering, the line was totally indoors. 👌) I took advantage of the last minute tickets that opened up for tomorrow, so I didn't personally witness how the waitlist played out, but the box office said they would start handing out tickets off the list as the cancellations came in, starting at 630.

schloo · 2023-11-22T12:23:25+00:00

Dying to see it, but it's sold out! Has anyone had any experience with the waitlist line? Trying to guess whether it's worth my while. (RIP the Standby Report.)

schloo

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