carbon

It is ironic that I write this while traveling from Seattle to New York by airplane.  Three years ago I set out to measure my carbon footprint from air travel.  Back in 2007 I clocked nearly 70,000 miles and a carbon footprint on the order of 25 tons of CO2. In 2008 the number dropped to 56,000 miles and about 22 tons of CO2. This year, I've only flown about 29,000 miles for around 10 tons of CO2.

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Back in January I posted a blog about my carbon footprint for 2007. With 36 flights spanning nearly 70,000 miles, I had calculate my carbon footprint at a little bit more than 14 tons of CO2, turns out I had some bad numbers in there and overestimated it by maybe 2 or 3 tons.

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Owen put up a website that uses a math problem to get people to think about a very important number, 350ppm CO2.

I just turned is math problem into a short animated video using a website called GoAnimate.com.
Watch my video below:

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One of the things I love about working at CivicActions is getting to hear about great projects happening in the world. It makes my days seem a little more hopeful and inspired to know that there are really smart people doing really great things.

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Bill McKibben's Project 350 introduces us to the most important number in the world today.

350 is the red line for human beings, as science now tells us that unless we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million (ppm), we will cause huge and irreversible damage to the earth. We are currently at 385 ppm and still rising.

To help spread the meme, Ian and I both spent some time making videos this weekend.

In my ongoing campaign to think and be carbon neutral, and spread the message far and wide, I asked the DrupalCon Boston organizers to post information about offsetting the carbon footprint associated with traveling to DrupalCon in March.

I hope that individuals and shops will consider purchasing offsets for their DrupalCon associated travel, as well as other travel.

As folks might know, I'm a bit of an eco-geek.  I've been talking about my carbon footprint for a few years now and can remember when it might cause someone's eyes to completely glaze over.  But then we learned about An Inconvenient Truth, a new island was discovered after part of Greenland's ice sheet melted, and Al Gore and the IPCC one the Nobel Prize.  We all know that

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As an outspoken carbon offsetter, this past Sunday and Monday I found my inbox filling with emails from friends about the NYT Week In Review cover story on Carbon Offsets. The Times article compared carbon offsets to indulgences offered by the church and suggested that the industry needs a Martin Luther to come along and spark a reformation.

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John Edwards is the first presidential candidate to go carbon neutral. Not only has the campaign taken steps to offset its carbon footprint and conserve energy, they have also launched ReduceYourCarbon.com a site that lets people pledge to reduce carbon emissions through concrete steps like changing incandescents to fluorescents, adjust the thermostat, improve fuel economy through reducing driving or keeping tires inflated.

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I have been meaning to write about carbon offsets (again) but haven't gotten around to it yet. This post over on TerraPass.com seemed like a good enough reason.

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