The Los Angeles Times: Terry Gardner
HERE’S the modern traveler’s dilemma: You love to travel but worry about the environment, and you know that flying or even driving to your destination leaves a carbon footprint, a measure of how your activities affect the environment.
To mitigate the harm a trip can cause – including fossil fuels burned to get you where you’re going – travelers today can buy carbon offsets. And some travel companies have joined the green trend, making it easier to offset the environmental impact of your journey.
The concept is simple: You contribute to companies or organizations that implement or manage projects that avoid, reduce or absorb offending greenhouse gases through renewable energy (solar and wind power, for example); encourage energy efficiency (smarter appliances and lightbulbs); and use forest and other green projects to suck up carbon dioxide.
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