Guest guest Posted February 9, 2002 Report Share Posted February 9, 2002 Picked up an interesting flyer for a charity that offers us the chance to become " carbon neutral " people by sponsoring trees to be planted in our name : www.futureforests.com. They reckon that a carbon neutral citizen takes 15 trees [ or 75 quid ] a carbon neutral home takes 8 trees [ or 40 quid ] a carbon neutral driver takes 5 trees [ or 25 quid ] A carbon neutral long haul flight 1 tree [ or 5 quid - which seems a real bargain of a salve to one's conscience ] To I guess that if you live in a house, run a car, are still alive and go on holidays that you are 29 trees down. Of course, if you are vegan, may be you ought to think about becoming sulphur neutral as well. Native tree in long term woodlands. Don¹t actually know the folks personally but it looks like good stuff to me. john Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2002 Report Share Posted February 9, 2002 > > They reckon that > > a carbon neutral citizen takes 15 trees [ or 75 quid ] > a carbon neutral home takes 8 trees [ or 40 quid ] > a carbon neutral driver takes 5 trees [ or 25 quid ] > A carbon neutral long haul flight 1 tree [ or 5 quid - which seems a real > bargain of a salve to one's conscience ] You could be hitting the nail on the head there John- I don't know much about future forests, I had a quick skim of the website, but didn't go further than when I was (yet again) required to register before they could do my carbon count or whatever... personally i was a bit concerned that it's yet another 'feel good but don't get to the root of things' type initiative, ie, have yer hols abroad, drive your car, etc etc, send us some cash, we'll plant some trees on your behalf, keep consuming, don't make any radical changes, the modern day sin-eaters will sort it all out for you... > > Native tree in long term woodlands. You might do better to buy £75 of native tree stock yourself from a local tree nursery(or better still, collect local seed and propogate them, then pass out seedlings to anybody whose willing to host some trees, 'guerilla plant' in parks, wasteland, etc, and bypass the cash nexus entirely! Ah but then one would have to forgo the mediated 'experience'of knowing that one had 'done ones bit' and got it mentioned on a bona fide web site.... Don¹t actually know the folks personally > but it looks like good stuff to me. I'm sure it is- just got my cynical old git specs on tonight :-) (just ignore the grumpy man in the corner, darling...) Hey why not post this stuff to eco-vegans, just the sort of thing that would be on topic! Graham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2002 Report Share Posted February 9, 2002 Ay up Graham and everyone else, I feel a uncomfortable with setting an upper limit on how much one need do in terms of tree planting before you can feel better about the ongoing destruction of the planet. However having said that there presently many people who do care (and want to do _something_), but are just locked in to this purchasing mentality. Except where there are overiding conservation / biodiversity concerns in regard to sites for tree planting I would say the more the better - and better locally so you can see to thier after-care. Here's a link to the National Forest (in the Midlands) and a similar sponsorship scheme by way of further reference: http://www.nationalforest.org/company/adoptatree/ Any one in the area this Spring, I would be happy to give you a tour around. Jonathan vegan-network, " quercusrobur2002 " <grahamburnett@b...> wrote: > > > > > They reckon that > > > > a carbon neutral citizen takes 15 trees [ or 75 quid ] > > a carbon neutral home takes 8 trees [ or 40 quid ] > > a carbon neutral driver takes 5 trees [ or 25 quid ] > > A carbon neutral long haul flight 1 tree [ or 5 quid - which seems > a real > > bargain of a salve to one's conscience ] > > You could be hitting the nail on the head there John- I don't know > much about future forests, I had a quick skim of the website, but > didn't go further than when I was (yet again) required to register > before they could do my carbon count or whatever... personally i was > a bit concerned that it's yet another 'feel good but don't get to the > root of things' type initiative, ie, have yer hols abroad, drive your > car, etc etc, send us some cash, we'll plant some trees on your > behalf, keep consuming, don't make any radical changes, the modern > day sin-eaters will sort it all out for you... > > > > > > Native tree in long term woodlands. > > You might do better to buy £75 of native tree stock yourself from a > local tree nursery(or better still, collect local seed and propogate > them, then pass out seedlings to anybody whose willing to host some > trees, 'guerilla plant' in parks, wasteland, etc, and bypass the cash > nexus entirely! Ah but then one would have to forgo the > mediated 'experience'of knowing that one had 'done ones bit' and got > it mentioned on a bona fide web site.... > > Don¹t actually know the folks personally > > but it looks like good stuff to me. > > I'm sure it is- just got my cynical old git specs on tonight :-) > > (just ignore the grumpy man in the corner, darling...) > > Hey why not post this stuff to eco-vegans, just the sort of thing > that would be on topic! > > Graham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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