{"id":381,"date":"2006-08-16T08:08:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T07:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2006-08-16T08:08:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T07:08:15","slug":"offset-your-carbon-with-coolingman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Offset your carbon with Coolingman!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The people over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolingman.org\/\">Coolingman<\/a> have calculated that the Burning Man festival generates around 100 tons of carbon waste, so in the spirit of &#8216;leave no trace&#8217; they have set up a trust to counteract this impact. They are people after my own hearts, because their target is not only to &#8216;leave not trace&#8217; but to &#8216;leave things better&#8217;: they are aiming to offset 110 tons of carbon.<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolingman.org\/About\/Support.html\">three ways to do this<\/a>: planting a tree (cool), donating your business&#8217; offsets (good, but not practical for individuals), and donating to fund the offsets of environmentally friendly carbon projects (the easiest). I&#8217;ve gone for the latter, and since I&#8217;ve been to the burn twice, flying from the UK each time, I decided to donate $20, which should counter my environmental impact not only for the burn but also for a fair bit of my entire year! If you want to donate through PayPal or via credit card then there are instructions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolingman.org\/About\/form3.cfm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon neutral living is tough in the Western world, so funding groups who are counteracting it is a great way forward. We all have to take responsibility for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people over at Coolingman have calculated that the Burning Man festival generates around 100 tons of carbon waste, so in the spirit of &#8216;leave no trace&#8217; they have set up a trust to counteract this impact. They are people after my own hearts, because their target is not only to &#8216;leave not trace&#8217; but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Offset your carbon with Coolingman!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-things","category-weird-science","category-world-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-69","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}