Carbon Offsets: A Globetrotter's Best Friend

Hello my thousands (and by 1000s, I mean 4) adoring fans,

I've been traveling a LOT recently. A trip to Denver/Boulder for the 4th of July, a trip to Ohio for work (which was AWESOME, btw. We were electrofishing as a part of stream community surveys), and now I'm headed to Vegas for a friend's bachlorette party. Given the fact that I'm already dishing out all kinds of $ for these trips, it's sometimes hard to also think about the added cost of buying carbon offsets for my trips...However, Terrapass is making it just a little easier for all of us to get that much closer to carbon-neutral traveling. They have an air travel option in which you by one year's worth of flight carbon offsets. In this package, $50 buys offsets for 4 short, 3 medium and 2 long-haul flights, and luggage tag is included (so that you can show off your commitment to reducing global warming, obvs).

Given the thousands of dollars that you'll spend on the 9 flights accounted for by your air travel package, $50 really isn't much when it comes down to it. Air travel is an individual's single largest contributor to their carbon footprint, so do the right thing and take steps to make yours that much smaller.