Friday, April 13th, 2007
I offset my emissions from my flight
Quick one tonight. I’m flying tomorrow (if the snow holds off like I expect it to), so I offset my emissions today — carbon emissions, that is. I’ve written about this before, because I think it’s important so I do it every time I fly. Actually, I should probably set up an account to offset all my day-to-day emissions (although since I don’t own a car or a home or even commute to work, my largest contribution of greenhouse gas might come from my bum — do human gas expulsions contain methane, or just cows’?).
Anyhow, I digress. So I’m offsetting my share of the airplane emissions I’ll be responsible for tomorrow. Read more about how that works here. In the future, when I’m not on such a tight travel deadline, I hope to start taking the train between Denver and NY/DC — it’s about a two-day ride crossing most of middle America and stopping for half a day in Chicago. And it costs about $200 one-way. Not quite as cheap as flying (even when I add in my emissions payment), but not too much more either.
