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Carbon offsets

Not carbon offset but carbon penitence

January 15, 2009 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Tomorrow I fly from New York City to Salt Lake City, Utah, leaving in my wake a big long contrail and a lot of carbon dioxide–both of which contribute to global warming. It’ll be the second flight I’ve taken in more than two years. What’s popular, when it comes to flying, is buying carbon offsets. […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: Carbon offsets, climate crisis, global warming, hydroelectric, renewable energy

LV GRN: Making summer vacation choices

April 16, 2008 by Colin Beavan

In the two summers before the No Impact experiment, we went to France and Italy for three weeks each. We rented cars and had the time of our lives. This year, though the No Impact year is over, we’re continuing to make what, for me, is the difficult decision of keeping it closer to home. […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, No Impact Man Tagged With: carbon emissions, Carbon offsets, vacation

The problem of air travel

January 10, 2008 by Colin Beavan

Yesterday, you may have read, I posted about how No Impact Man lives once the rules of the No Impact Man project cease to exist. I called myself low impact man in that post, but I’m sticking with my original moniker. The ironies are just too precious. Anyway, one thing I brought up is the […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: air travel, Carbon offsets, climate change, global warming, green living, video conferencing

Now that I’m only lower impact man

January 9, 2008 by Colin Beavan

Some truths about my life without the gazillion rules to follow: I don’t like making an impact but I like living in the dark less–the lights are on. All our bulbs are CFL. We buy wind power (and you can too). Nothing is plugged in when it isn’t used. The fridge is on but the […]

Filed Under: Consumerism and Materialism, Environment, No Impact Man Tagged With: air travel, Biking. green living, Carbon offsets, sustainable consumption

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