{"id":16,"date":"2007-11-18T01:59:27","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T01:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livemorelightly.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2007-11-18T01:59:27","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T01:59:27","slug":"carbon-offsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livemorelightly.com\/Tech\/2007\/11\/carbon-offsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Offsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-16\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>In researching the idea of carbon offsets I have found an interesting calculator that allows the purchase of offsets on the spot. The <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.escapeadventures.com\/environment\/carbon_neutral.htm\" title=\"Carbon Neutral\" target=\"_blank\">Escape Adventures<\/a> website gives a lot of information and a link to the calculator. I calculated the distance across Canada as being roughly 4500 km. at approximately 80 miles per gallon. I will have to be more precise as I am unsure of changing between litres\/ gallons and miles\/Km. but I thought I&#8217;d get a rough idea.<\/p>\n<p>The calculator at Sustainable Travel International read:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"form_heading\"> \t\tYour total emissions are: 0.498 tons of CO2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"form_heading\"> \t\tThe total cost to offset this amount of CO2 will be: US$7.59<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This dosen&#8217;t seem like a lot, so if I can&#8217;t find any other way of doing it I will calculate my carbon emissions properly and pay up!<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end --><h3>Related Images:<\/h3><\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-16\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 16);\">[Translate]<\/a><img src=\"https:\/\/livemorelightly.com\/Tech\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif\" id=\"translate_loading_post-16\" class=\"translate_loading\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>In researching the idea of carbon offsets I have found an interesting calculator that allows the purchase of offsets on the spot. The Escape Adventures website gives a lot of information and a link to the calculator. I calculated the distance across Canada as being roughly 4500 km. at approximately 80 miles per gallon. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1IW6E-g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemorelightly.com\/Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemorelightly.com\/Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemorelightly.com\/Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemorelightly.com\/Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemorelightly.com\/Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livemorelightly.com\/Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemorelightly.com\/Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemorelightly.com\/Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemorelightly.com\/Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}