Heard on the radio that BP have launched today a scheme to offset your CO2 emmissions with a joint project with TargetNeutral.
You register, work out your usage, pay money to a non profit organiastion who lauch projects (abroad) to offset the carbon. In addition if you use a nectar card once registered, BP will also pay some money for every litre you buy from them (ahh! thats where they get the pay off.)
visit here for details:
http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle ... Id=7021085
and here to work out your carbon:
http://www.targetneutral.com
What's peoples opinion on this?????
BP launch's CO2 neutral driving!
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Cheezy
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BP launch's CO2 neutral driving!
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So you know how great Salsify is as a veg, what about Cavero Nero,great leaves all through the winter , then in Spring sprouting broccolli like flowers! Takes up half as much room as broccolli
So you know how great Salsify is as a veg, what about Cavero Nero,great leaves all through the winter , then in Spring sprouting broccolli like flowers! Takes up half as much room as broccolli
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BP launch's CO2 neutral driving!
Cheezy & Co.
I saw something similar on the 10 o'clock news.
British Airways asking for a voluntary carbon surcharge on their transatlantic tickets of about £48, that would then be re-invested in the developing world to minimise their carbon emissions by an equal amount.
Has the world gone chuffing mad?
Why can't they spend the £48 in the Western world and reduce our carbon emissions, does it go further in developing countries and yet still leave them a healthy profit???
Can you really believe that a big corporation like BA (or BP) will use the whole £48 to help reduce third world CO2 emissions, or will they just use it to pay their massive aviation fuel costs.
A good way to reduce their CO2 emissions is to boycott their airline and send £48 a year to your favourite humanitarian charity.
What does anyone else think?
Ken
I saw something similar on the 10 o'clock news.
British Airways asking for a voluntary carbon surcharge on their transatlantic tickets of about £48, that would then be re-invested in the developing world to minimise their carbon emissions by an equal amount.
Has the world gone chuffing mad?
Why can't they spend the £48 in the Western world and reduce our carbon emissions, does it go further in developing countries and yet still leave them a healthy profit???
Can you really believe that a big corporation like BA (or BP) will use the whole £48 to help reduce third world CO2 emissions, or will they just use it to pay their massive aviation fuel costs.
A good way to reduce their CO2 emissions is to boycott their airline and send £48 a year to your favourite humanitarian charity.
What does anyone else think?
Ken
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I'm all for the immediate cessation of ALL flights barring emergency or compassionate ones! 
Typical blessed fudging of the issue - it's still shovelling vast quantities of gunk into the atmosphere unnecessarily!
Typical blessed fudging of the issue - it's still shovelling vast quantities of gunk into the atmosphere unnecessarily!
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Amateurs encouraged - very keen prices and friendly helpful service!
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The TargetNeutral site says: "All the money raised... goes towards positive environmental projects that offset the harm CO2 emissions produce, like three biomass energy plants, a wind farm in India and a livestock operations in Mexico. "
I don't get it. How does a biomass energy plant neutralise the carbon emitted by a car that runs on petrol? How can a windfarm make driving carbon neutral? What's livestock got to do with it?
It also says: "It is easy to participate, and involves a cash contribution to the programme, usually around £20 per year..."
That's great isn't it? Pay 5½ pence per day and be guilt free, knowing that you have been exempt from harming the environment. I bet people are gonna sign up for that by the truckload so that they can use their cars even more, and yet be beyond criticism.
I suppose these are the modern versions of indulgencies. Cheap ones, at that.
I don't get it. How does a biomass energy plant neutralise the carbon emitted by a car that runs on petrol? How can a windfarm make driving carbon neutral? What's livestock got to do with it?
It also says: "It is easy to participate, and involves a cash contribution to the programme, usually around £20 per year..."
That's great isn't it? Pay 5½ pence per day and be guilt free, knowing that you have been exempt from harming the environment. I bet people are gonna sign up for that by the truckload so that they can use their cars even more, and yet be beyond criticism.
I suppose these are the modern versions of indulgencies. Cheap ones, at that.
Stew
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Ignorance is essential