Offsetting Environmental Damage by Planes

Frequent flyers can now do their part to save the world while still jetting around it. Each passenger who takes the popular transatlantic New York – London route is guilty of polluting the air with 2,776 pounds of carbon dioxide. But environmental companies like London-based Future Forests can help you ease the guilt – if you cough up a few extra dollars, they will plant a tree in Serbia or replace inefficient oil-boilers in Oregon. While some Americans, feeling doubly guilty after the US government’s refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty against global warming, are contributing, most do-gooders remain European. Most agree that corporations and airline companies need to do their part. – YaleGlobal