Flying with a clean, green, conscience

May 3rd, 2008
The holy grail. Sometimes you need to be someplace quick, maybe its to see about a girl, maybe its to be at an 60th birthday party when you know you have to be 1550km away by the following afternoon. The offset scene won't be enough to fix that guilty conscience,I mean staying fat while paying someone [...]

Carbon Tracking : Passenger Ferries

April 11th, 2008
Emissions figures are becoming pretty commonplace in our climate-change sensitive world. Every car ad will tell the the amount of grams of CO2 each kilometre produced by their latest beauty, albeit in really small text tucked down the bottom. The airline industry is getting up to speed as well, Air France, Lufthansa, BA, to mention [...]

The trouble with trees and wishfully simple solutions

March 24th, 2008
Hey, everyone loves trees. Some love them just for the huggable side of things, some for the way they're so easily cut down and sold. These days, people are loving them as a way of offsetting carbon emissions. The premise is straightforward : Trees sequester CO2 as they grow to maturity. So the majority of carbon [...]

Convert from liters/100km to mpg and vise-versa

March 21st, 2008
It's not that hard but not that straightforward either. You're hopping from sites in the US to European sites to UK sites and the mpg-figures are all strange and working out the liters/100km is a pain. Well no more. No bells and whistles either, just straightforward conversions with emissions figures thrown in just for the sake of it. A somewhat [...]