CarbonTracking

We've had the first generation of carbon-offsetting. You pay someone to plant trees, or you pay someone to generate green-electricity, maybe you pay someone to become a vegetarian. Its all a bit intangible sometimes, the time-period in which the offset occurs is sometimes unclear and the offset may be occurring on the other side of [...]

Carpooling is one of those universal green-loves. I mean, people share a trip in a car, less emissions all around, a bit of social-networking going on, its an all round winner of an idea. Since its such a good idea, there is a bunch of good people who have created carpooling websites out there on the web. [...]

There I was on the Oscar Wilde a few weeks back. Its the very nice Irish Ferries boat that links Rosslare,Ireland to Roscoff, France. With two young kids this is the comfortable way of driving from France to Ireland, forget that landbridge stuff and the extra 800km ( for me at least ). So I got [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]