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Article: Flying into trouble: where are carbon offsets taking us?
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- Earth Island Journal
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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According to the carbon calculator I found online, a passenger on a round-trip airline flight from San Francisco to Seattle generates about one metric ton of [CO.sub.2]. Since my destination was the Green Festival, it seemed only right that I should try to resolve the irony of frying the atmosphere in order to attend the country's biggest eco-conference by purchasing a carbon offset. But where to start? Which carbon offset should I buy? Which would be the most effective and trustworthy?
Naturally, I began with Google. I typed "buying carbon offsets" into the search engine and instantly received an array of options: carbonfund.org, ...
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