Monday I'm starting a new project in Boston related to my tv work. Since this will require a good deal of commuting over the next 15 weeks I decided to look into the price of offsetting my emissions.
I went to http://www.carbonfund.org and entered my projected mileage - 9,000 miles over that period of time. I was scared to hit calculate... How much is it going to be? What if it is more than I imagined. I clicked the button bracing for the damage.
$14.95
Sweet Jesus! That's it? Did you know it cost so little to offset??? I had no idea.
Do us all a favor. Go to and see how much it will cost to offset your driving. Heck, why not see what it will cost to offset the mileage on your car to date.
I just calculated the cost of offsetting 100,000 miles on a 99 Toyota Corolla. The cost for offsetting the estimated emitted 29.97 TONS of carbon this vehicle has emitted is $162.22.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
UU's embracing "Low cost, high-tech media"
Paul Worhach Hudson from the UU Church of Berkeley just wrote to share what his congregation is doing with "low cost, high tech" media. I've been talking about UU TV and related media, but I haven't discussed the power of distributing audio content via new media. Far more people have audio players (iPod, etc...) than video players like iphones and ipod video. Also, a number of people, myself included, are listening to audio podcasts on our desktop computers. I've taken to listen to a number of congregations sermons while cleaning my office.
If you haven't, start thinking about how your congregation can distribute audio content via new cheap high tech media channels.
Paul writes:
In addition to our podcasts and YouTube videos, UUCB has just put up an album of children's stories on iTunes (via CDBaby, who distributes and sends the album to a plethora of music buying sites) from our MRE Chris Holton Jablonksi. There are at least two other UU churches that have released albums on iTunes, including the Orange County UU Choir (their original song "I am a Unitarian Universalist" is really cute.) This might be something that other UU churches might want to tap into.
Here's our iTunes link:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=279931334
And here's our CDBaby link:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/revchjablonski
If you haven't, start thinking about how your congregation can distribute audio content via new cheap high tech media channels.
Paul writes:
In addition to our podcasts and YouTube videos, UUCB has just put up an album of children's stories on iTunes (via CDBaby, who distributes and sends the album to a plethora of music buying sites) from our MRE Chris Holton Jablonksi. There are at least two other UU churches that have released albums on iTunes, including the Orange County UU Choir (their original song "I am a Unitarian Universalist" is really cute.) This might be something that other UU churches might want to tap into.
Here's our iTunes link:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=279931334
And here's our CDBaby link:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/revchjablonski
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