Recent Posts Tagged With 'spending'

• Going Carbon-Neutral: Pros and Cons of Carbon Offsets

  Posted on Wednesday October 31st, 2007 at 13:13 in carbon emissions, environmental issues, summary, inconvenient truth, carbon offsets, spending, carbon neutral, treehugger, feel good, factors to consider, evaluating choices, terrapass

  The New Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year for 2006 was “carbon-neutral,” which gives you some sense of the fad that is carbon offsets. With the success of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, there is a rising wave of guilt about the...

• The “Sticky Green Residue” of Travel

  Posted on Monday October 15th, 2007 at 06:04 in destinations, spending, economic value

  Before I get to the substance of my post, I want to remind our readers that today is Blog Action Day, an annual event when thousands of bloggers get together to weigh in on the same topic. This year, the topic is the environment. Well done, selecti...

• Walking the Walk: Paying for Environmentally-Responsible Travel

  Posted on Wednesday October 10th, 2007 at 08:53 in spending, budgets, evaluating choices

  So after my last post, I got to thinking. What does it mean in practice to try to reduce your environmental impact (or “budget”) when you’re on vacation. Well, one obstacle is that some environmentally-friendly choices aren’...