Carbon Footprint and Travel

Read some stuff from elsewhere on the web about travel, carbon emissions, green basics....

Green Basics: Carbon Footprint
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/carbon-footprint-green-basics.php

Air Travel and Climate Change: Take the Train
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/02/air_travel_and.php


Best reads on offsets schemes and carbon trading:

The Carbon neutral Myth: Indulgences for your climate sins.
An initiative to track and scrutinize carbon sink projects
The focus of SinksWatch is on tree plantation sinks projects, particularly in areas where land tenure and land use rights are in dispute. That said, to understand fully the flaws of carbon offset schemes involving tree planting we also provide analysis showing why carbon offsets generally are a dangerous distraction from the task at hand - drastically and swiftly reducing fossil fuel emissions.(PDF download):
Go to their website: http://www.sinkswatch.org/

http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/subject/climate/
How carbon trading creates transferable rights to dump carbon, slows social and technological change, promotes socially and ecologically destructive practices and is ineffective and unjust.