With all the KDE folks travelling to aKademy this week, I think it’s a good opportunity to make
a good effort known to all you folks. Most of us probably know, that flying puts a considerable
burden on the environment. Not all is lost, you can compensate at least for a part of your
contribution to global warming and other problems that come along with the pollution of the air.
Kim pointed me at two sites that offer the
service of compensation. On the GreenSeats website, you can
convert your seat into a “green seat”, basically by paying the organisation for planting trees that
will compensate the amount of emission that is caused by your flight. For a return flight from
Amsterdam to Dublin this adds € 5,96 (or 13 trees) for the compensation of CO2 and
€ 10,12 (or 27 trees) for the compensation of also other greenhouse gases.
A site offering a similar service is TreesForTravel.nl.
