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Are carbon offsets like a fat man paying a skinny man to lose weight for him?
Not if you ask Gavin Newson, mayor of San Francisco, who helped bring carbon offset kiosks to that city’s airport. Last week, SFO became the first airport in the nation to offer air travelers a way to offset the greenhouse gases their flight will add to the Earth’s atmosphere.
A buildup of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), is known to cause global warming.
Here’s how the three Climate Passport kiosks at SFO work:
* you enter information about your trip on a touch screen
* the computer calculates how many pounds of carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases) your trip will produce
* it suggests how much you’d need to donate to local projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gases in order to “offset” the damage your trip will inflict on the environment
* the money goes to renewable energy, energy efficiency, and reforestation projects, like Garcia River Forest http://www.conservationfund.org/west/california/garcia and Dogpatch Biofuels http://www.dogpatchbiofuels.com/
* the kiosks are located after the security checkpoints on both sides of the International Terminal, and in Terminal 3.
Learn more about
* how much a clean conscious costs
* what the naysayers are saying
* what air travel does to the environment and what you can do about it in the full article at Miss Move Abroad
http://www.missmoveabroad.com/
