What Will We Eat When the Oil Runs Out?

Raj — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:15:42 -0700

This piece is doing the rounds at the moment, and it helpfully pulls the climate change debate into one tight whole. Although I enjoyed the prose of Richard Manning's piece more, this one packs in more of the science of climate change. ... read more »

Stuffed and Starved: The Carbon Offsets

Raj — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:17:40 -0700

In writing Stuffed and Starved I was lucky enough to interview farmers and movement activists across the world. This meant travelling, and this means CO₂ emissions. A generous totting up of the distances travelled puts the figure involved in writing Stuffed and Starved at around 60,000 miles which, using the carbon calculator here means that I put 24 tons of CO₂ into the atmosphere.

I've been trying to find out a little about how best to offset it. First, here's a range of carbon calculators. Then you need to figure out how to offset. My good friend Anirvan Chatterjee shopped around and found out that there's a considerable price range in the offset market: ... read more »

DrivingGreen.com: $7.27/ton

AtmosFair.de: $24/ton

CarbonNeutral.com: $14.57: ton

ClimateCare.org: $14.73: ton

ClimateTrust.org/CarbonCounter.org: $10/ton

co2balance.com: $17.72/ton

NativeEnergy.com: $12/ton

SustainableTravelInternational.org: $20/ton

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What Will We Eat When the Oil Runs Out?

Stuffed and Starved: The Carbon Offsets