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...consulted a myriad of sources on-line. There are calculators to help assess how much pollution you contribute, along with a variety of sites that tell you how to go on a diet, and still others with carbon-dieting support groups, like those found on the Sierra Club site. Terrapass, a company that sells carbon-offsetting investments to individuals, sends an email to 19,000 people a week with carbon pound weight-loss tips. They also have an active blog where people post their own tips, vote on their willingness to make certain changes (like purchasing a solar-powered water...
...Certainly, these aren't new ideas. Tom Arnold, the chief environmental officer of Terrapass, recalls Jimmy Carter in a cardigan urging the nation to be more energy efficient during the OPEC crisis in the 1970s. "People who care about the environment are trying to reframe the issue," he says. "If that means making the ideas a little more sexy and marketing it as a diet, then we'll do it. We say low carbon diets are like a gateway drug, a voluntary initiative that will help people realize that we must change our energy infrastructure...
...offset emissions are growing. Conservation International, for instance, helped Mitsubishi and Pearl Jam funnel their offsetting funds into rain-forest protection in Madagascar. And Coldplay did more than enough to offset its last album, X&Y, by protecting forests in Mexico and Ecuador. Internet ventures with names like TerraPass, myclimate and Drive Neutral enable commuters and air travelers to calculate their emissions and neutralize the damage. Some even aim to turn a profit...
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