[Greenbuilding] Carbon offset - pay to airline while buying tickets

[Tim Vireo Keating]

A donation to Rainforest Relief would be a more 
effective carbon offset for the money! Given that 
we're pretty much all-volunteer, with an annual 
budget of about $12,000 and having stopped the 
use of more tropical wood in the US than any 
group in history, the acres spared vs. dollars 
spent is enormous! :  )

While we have major complaints about the plan, 
NYC just announced their plan to reduce reliance 
on tropical hardwoods, after 13 years of our 
campaigning. The 'immediate' 20% reduction comes 
from the Parks Dept. removing tropical woods from 
new bench specifications - a sparing of 90,000 
linear feet of tropical wood (mostly ipê) per 
year. They've also committed to no new boardwalks 
designed with tropical woods.

However, we've learned (from the plan itself) 
that Sanitation has designed two marine transfer 
stations with greenheart. We will now do battle 
yet again to stop these from being built as 
designed.

Support would be money well-spent - and carbon emissions well-spared.

tim keating

At 8:02 AM -0800 2/15/08, sanjay jain wrote:
>I was surprised to find British Airways allow 
>you to buy Carbon offset while booking a ticket. 
>I don't know if other do too.
>
>I purchased the offset, even though it was via a 
>large finance institution (we all know how green 
>and caring they are!), my logic being that it's 
>good to let airlines know that people want to do 
>this.
>
>Although one wonders at the logic of all this, 
>doesn't it depend on how the money used to pay 
>the offset was "earned"?
>
>~sanjay
>
>
>       
>---------------------------------
>Never miss a thing.   Make Yahoo your homepage.
>_______________________________________________
>Greenbuilding email list
>      Environmentally-preferable design, construction, building elements
>List info: 
>http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_listserv.repp.org
>List email: Greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org
>Managed by BuildingGreen, Inc. http://www.buildinggreen.com
>       publisher of Environmental Building News and GreenSpec
>Hosted and archived by REPP / CREST http://www.crest.org
>To get on the list:
>   http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_listserv.repp.org
>   or mailto:greenbuilding-request at listserv.repp.org?subject=unsubscribe
>To get off the list:
>   http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_listserv.repp.org
>   or mailto:greenbuilding-request at listserv.repp.org?subject=unsubscribe


-- 


"The Earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the
measure of our bodies are the same..."
     	                               - Hinmaton Yalatkit, Nez Perce chief
____________________________________________

R   A   I   N   F   O   R   E   S   T        R   E   L   I   E   F

Sparing  the  World's  Rainforests  from  Consumption

Rainforest Relief works to protect the world's remaining tropical
and temperate rainforests by reducing the demand for the products
and materials of rainforest destruction such as timber and paper,
industrial agricultural products such as bananas, beef, coffee,
chocolate and cut flowers, and mining products
such as oil, gold and aluminum.

New York, NY: (917) 543-4064
Portland, OR: (503) 236-3031
http://www.rainforestrelief.org
info at rainforestrelief.org
Church Street Station * PO Box 298 * NY, NY 10008-0298

><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><