When I travel (particularly to speak on issues related to climate change and sustainability) I am fully aware of the irony: it takes a lot of carbon to get there.
But rather than just buy a carbon offset through an airline, I prefer a more personal approach. I ofer the equivalent, plus a few extra dollars, to someone in the audience who can come up with an idea or an organization which is making an incremental difference.
At my last lecture in Portland, I heard from Bryan Burch, who suggested I contribute to Friends of Trees. He followed up:
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Today’s planting at East Sylvan middle school:.
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Pictured are students from Joe Blower’s sixth-grade science class.
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Also pictured is Sara Ennis an AmeriCorps intern with Portland’s Environmental Services Bureau who gave today’s tree planting and carbon sequestration lesson:
Thank you for your generous donation that supported today’s planting of two Ponderosa Pines on school grounds.
Gotta feel good about that.
