The Trout Underground Goes Green (While Those Other Fly Fishing Blogs Turn Green With Envy)
By Tom Chandler on Jan 25, 2007 in Blogging, Environment
The L&T Nancy and I try to keep our energy footprint to a minimum, but recently decided to offset the carbon dioxide we produce while heating and lighting the house.
We tumbled for carbon offsets, which are easy, affordable, and I even accounted for my Web server and home office. That means the Trout Underground is green too.
Ha! Take that, MidCurrent. Eat my dust, Moldy.
Yes Undergrounders, those big city blogs with their global-warming, fancy-pants ways are right now turning green with envy.
But enough crowing. I’ll cut right to the clear, simple explanation.
The Clear Explanation
Essentially, a carbon offset translates your global warming guilt (represented by your dollars) into carbon-dioxide free energy - which you buy in an amount equaling your carbon footprint.
Several Web-based companies offer carbon offsets, though I chose Terra Pass for its excellent reputation. Patagonia clothing - no slouch in the green department - uses Terra Pass, which was research enough.
From the Terra Pass Web site:
When you buy a TerraPass, your money funds renewable energy projects such as wind farms. These projects result in verified reductions in greenhouse gas pollution. And these reductions counterbalance your own emissions.
You can use their online calculator to figure your carbon offset and even buy an offset online.
Remember, you heard it here first - from the blog that dares to take on the fly fishing industry and beat it into submission with a yarn indicator, three split shot and a handful of carbon offsets.
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Moldy Chum | Jan 25, 2007 | Reply
Well done!
Did we also buy some carbon offsets for the annual drive time to the honey hole or that next flight to the copywriters convention?
Next thing you know you’ll be signing up as a member of 1% for the planet like those Reel Pure guys.
Gotta go… the Hummer is idling in the driveway.
Tom Chandler | Jan 25, 2007 | Reply
I log so few auto miles that I’m combining my auto offsets with the L&T Nancy’s, which we’re doing next week.
And of course, I only fish fair trade, organically produced bamboo rods, so I’m pure in that realm too.
And as for the 1% thing; if I donated 1% of the Underground’s revenues, I’d lose money on the postage stamp…
Marshall Cutchin | Jan 26, 2007 | Reply
What’s carbon?
Marshall
Marshall Cutchin | Jan 26, 2007 | Reply
Oh, nevermind. I remember now.
Yeah, we like rods with a 10-micron carbon fiber offset, especially in the mid-modulus segment of the parabolic power curve.
You had me scratching my head there for a sec.
Marshall
Tom Chandler | Jan 26, 2007 | Reply
Marshall, is that free range Carbon Fiber?
clay | Jan 28, 2007 | Reply
Tom, is there any product out there to counter the methane I am currently emmiting?
Roger | Jan 28, 2007 | Reply
That certainly sounds like a silly project.
I believe that the earth heats up and cools down on quite a regular basis.
In any event attributing these events to man is most likely the height of arrogance.
Tom Chandler | Jan 29, 2007 | Reply
Roger, thanks for your opinion. In this situation, I would define “arrogance” as ignoring scads of credible scientific evidence because I didn’t want to be troubled by it.