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Carbon Offsets: A Noble Venture or a Waste of Time?

Thanks to Liz Robinson from the Energy Coordinating Agency in Philadelphia (via a listserv) this article from the BBC about planting trees to offset carbon emissions. Turns out that it is not the number of trees; it is where those trees are planted. In general planting in the more northern latitudes is less effective than in the tropics.

This distinction seems crucial to the environmental restorative conversation.

Posted by Edd on December 18, 2006 11:12 AM |

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