Carbon Footprints

Hi all. It’s been very quiet on the Carbon Footprints blog, the reason being I’ve been off getting married and enjoying a marvellous 5 week honeymoon in places where the last thing in the world I’ve wanted to do was read the news. I asked Vivienne at Carbon Planet to audit my wedding and honeymoon for CO₂ emissions and that was a very interesting process. Who would have thought our wedding rings would amount to close to 2 tonnes of CO₂? The grand total for the whole schebang came to 50 tonnes of CO₂, including car hires, many flights, and even little things like the food for the wedding dinner. The flights of course were the major emitter.

I met so many people on the honeymoon who were fearful that their love of travel was so clearly at odds with their otherwise ‘green lives’. Of course I explained how carbon credits work to fund projects that actually reduce the CO₂ in the atmosphere. Each carbon credit represents a real tonne of CO₂ either removed from, or never emitted to the air.

I’ve only just returned and am back on-line and so you can expect to see more blog entries again starting next week. Starting in August I will be working for Carbon Planet full time. More news soon. — DS

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