Buy an "offset" to go carbon neutral!

Whether you subscribe to the global warming thing or not, it's hard to argue with the fact that we're still chopping down trees and emitting a lot of CO2. What this activity is doing to the atmosphere is still up in the air for a lot of people, but keep in mind that more individuals are starting to get allergies and the "warming up" of earth just may have something to do with it.

Either way, a new company called Zerofootprint aims to change this trend. One of their goals is to help make people aware of carbon emissions. The other goal is to basically reduce the damage we've done by selling "offsets" which do exactly that: offset our own carbon footprint! How in the world do you accomplish that? Well, this company employs three activities to help lessen climate change.The first step is to use the money from offsets to plant trees. As some of us may know, trees are kind of important to our environment. Zerofootprint aims to grow and protect more of them. Their two other steps in implementing offsets include investing in sustainable energy and helping communities go green. All of this stems from their marketing of simple offset solutions that we can all relate to. For example, they offer a Travel Offset to counterbalance that huge CO2-emitting flight across the country you took on vacation. If you purchase this offset, the money goes directly to planting more trees in your name!

I probably sound like a tree-hugging hippie at this point, but the marvel is that Zerofootprint has taken a system that large organizations use to go carbon-neutral and have scaled it down for individuals to easily "offset" their own emissions. Any positive effect we can have on our environment will have a directly related positive effect on our lives and our health.