{"id":457,"date":"2008-01-26T10:14:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T14:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/26\/im-carbon-netural\/"},"modified":"2008-01-26T10:14:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T14:14:34","slug":"im-carbon-netural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/26\/im-carbon-netural\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Carbon Netural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.zerofootprint.net\/' title='imcarbonnut.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/imcarbonnut.jpg' align=\"right\" alt='imcarbonnut.jpg' \/><\/a>Lindz and I are now living in Burlington and I&#8217;m still working at Brock University in St. Catharines. This means that my drive has gone from 20KM round trip each day (with loads of weekend KMs) to a 150KM round trip each day (with loads of weekend KMs).  That&#8217;s a big kick in mother natures pants and about 45L of gas a week and all of that gas leaves my tailpipe in the form a carbon left throughout the Niagara region.<\/p>\n<p>To correct this I&#8217;ve bought a carbon offset for our car from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerofootprint.net\/\">Zerofootprint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What carbon offsets are intended to do are provide a way to invest in things that remove carbon from the environment: planting trees in urban and rural areas, investing in reduction and research.<\/p>\n<p>I  choose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerofootprint.net\/\">Zerofootprint<\/a> because they are Toronto based (mainly York grads) and are the company contracted to Air Canada to handle their offset program.  I&#8217;ve used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrapass.com\/\">Terapass<\/a> from the US before for flights before, but I&#8217;m concerned about Canadian CO<sup>2<\/sup>, not southern Californian carbon.<\/p>\n<p>The science and logic behind this offset phenomenon is a little spurious, and seems like a way to pay to have your guilt hauled off; but, there is no denying that if for every ton of carbon we all emitted we balanced it by planting enough trees we&#8217;d certainly reduce the amount of CO<sup>2<\/sup> in the atmosphere.  <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/10\/google-founders-pick-up-another-big-plane\/\">It&#8217;s how the Google founders justify their corporate jet being a 757<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindz and I are now living in Burlington and I&#8217;m still working at Brock University in St. Catharines. This means that my drive has gone from 20KM round trip each day (with loads of weekend KMs) to a 150KM round trip each day (with loads of weekend KMs). That&#8217;s a big kick in mother natures&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/26\/im-carbon-netural\/\">Continue Reading<span> I&#8217;m Carbon Netural<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}