February 19th, 2007
Treading Lighter While Travelling the Globe
Apologies for the light posting lately–it’s been mad busy for this Geeky Traveller.
Last week I met Hadi Dowlatabadi. He’s a professor at UBC and is involved with a couple of green travel websites: Offsetters (for plane travel) and Cool Drive Pass. From the former:
Offsetters gives you a positive choice about climate change. We invest in projects that take greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere or stop them from being emitted in the first place. If you make a purchase using the flights calculator above, or buy an Offsetters membership we invest that money in carbon offset projects.
You can find a big list of such companies on David Suzuki’s website.
We’ve got a lot of air travel coming up, and we’re going to start buying carbon credits. Of course it’s not the same as not flying–the greenhouse gasses still get emitted, after all–but it’s a step in the right direction.
They’ve got a little calculator for figuring out how much it’ll cost to get from A to B with less guilt. They’ve got a ton of destinations in the calculator, but no Malta. The closest city seemed to be Rome, and that will cost us CAN $48.96 each.
I’ll spare you the details, but I met Mr. Dowlatabadi in different circles than DeSmogBlog, our climate change client.
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