The Real Carbon Offset

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at May 3, 2008 in Notes.

For anyone trying to offset your carbon footprint: Get a shovel, dig a hole, and bury yourself. I’ll take volunteers to do this first and I will document the whole process from start to near finish.

7 Responses to “The Real Carbon Offset”

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1 Jeff Bailey
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm

While that would solve the problem in a fairly definitive way, carbon offsets are a nice temporary measure so long as it doesn’t involve planting trees.

The carbon offset program that I like the best basically goes around to lower income areas and for free will retrofit the heating systems, and fix insulation in them so that people’s lives are improves as well as offsetting carbon emissions because of reduced heating needs.

There’s no shortage of projects like that which can be done while we figure out what an actual proper solution is.
2 Mike Linksvayer
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:24 pm

Prevention may be better than cure, but it isn’t an offset.
3 seth vidal
May 4th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

What has got you this upset? Is there something in particular about carbon offsets that bother you?

We’re not doing much in the way offsets but we’ve dramatically reduced our energy use. Does this offend you in some way?
4 Karbon Kenny
May 19th, 2008 at 10:54 pm

Try this instead:

http://www.freecarbonoffsets.com
5 jon
May 21st, 2008 at 1:57 am

Dean, this is so great! I’m going to print out a few of these
6 jon
May 21st, 2008 at 1:57 am

Karbon Kenny, this is so great! I’m going to print out a few of these