Carbon-neutral
I went ahead and bought carbon credits to offset my recent slew of flights. Somewhat held back by the stunningly poor and contradictory array of carbon calculators out there on the web: most seem to be incredibly poorly written, contradict even themselves, and lousily designed. But after running the same flight through a handful of places (LHR-LAX), and looking at a bunch of places to buy credits from, I decided to buy up 12 tonnes of carbon credits from carbonplanet.com. They claim to actually plant trees; they claim to keep them for 100 years (Kyoto specifies 30 years); they're in Australia (so I believe they'll actually plant the things; I just *don't* believe it for the ones that claim to plant in the UK, particularly "near you" in the UK. There's just not enough space). They're certified up down and center, their website doesn't suck (although their page o'faqs is a bit overwhelming), and the price AU$23(= US$18)/tonne is low enough to be affordable but high enough to actually be reasonable.
Maybe I'll try and specify that I want all my flights to be carbon-neutral into my next contract. That could be fun...
Maybe I'll try and specify that I want all my flights to be carbon-neutral into my next contract. That could be fun...