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Carbon Neutral flights January 17, 2006

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Sounds crazy - flying without incurring the cost of CO2 emissions.

However - I found an interesting website that helps calculate the ‘carbon cost’ of flying and the remedy to neutralise that usage.

The example given - for a medium haul flight - is something I do on a weekly basis. For example a round trip from Salt Lake to New York. To counteract this I need to purchase two trees. Or about five trees per month. That’s over fifty trees per year. Ouch.

You can calculate your own impact here.