An Inconvenient Truth

Submitted by GregoryHeller on May 3, 2006 - 7:00pm

Via WorldChanging: The movie An Inconvenient Truth will open at the end of May. Participant Productions is getting people to pledge to see the film when it opens in their market (at the film's website ClimateCrisis.net).

The ClimateCrisis site also has a nifty carbon footprint calculator. The Calculator got me feeling really guilty about air travel. This past weekend I met a guy while in the desert south west of LA who is working on carbon pollution credit trading. I should admit that we talked about these issue while in a climate controlled house baking in the sun and 100 degree ambient air temp. We talked about TerraPass which allows you to buy carbon credits for your driving. I suggested that someone should start "AeroPass" to allow travelers to buy carbon credits to offset their air travel.

Anyway, join me in pledging to see An Inconvenient Truth when it opens.

AeroPass options
Submitted by rolfkleef on May 4, 2006 - 4:50am.

Hi Gregory, your Aeropass idea exists. In The Netherlands we have initiatives like CoolFlying or Trees for Travel, where you can calculate the CO2 or total emissions, and how many trees you would need to buy to compensate. Many organisations, including Greenpeace and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs already work with such schemes for their travels.

See some US-based examples, eg. http://www.greenbiz.com/reference/organizations_record.cfm?LinkAdvID=10768 or the Carbon Offsets program at http://www.my-climate.com/ (and I would love to hear if those are respectable organisations, I just found those on the internet)

Regards, Rolf.

Thanks Rolf! I knew it had
Submitted by GregoryHeller on May 4, 2006 - 8:52am.

Thanks Rolf! I knew it had to exist. I'll look into them and see what I can find out.