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.

Terra Pass Web site

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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